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Show ON FOE Halt Teutons at All Points in the Mountains; Moun-tains; Foil Storming Columns Trying to Wrest Monte Fenera From Them; Issue of Battle Uncertain. FOUR ASSAULTS ARE BEATEN BACK Situation Continues to Be Critical; Teutons Have Massed Great Number of Reserves for Final Onslaught; General Fayolle to Head Reinforcements. n By International News Service. LONDON, Nov. 20. In the face of tremendous tre-mendous pressure the Italians have held firm during the last twenty-four hours on the mountain front between the Bren-ta Bren-ta and Piave rivers, where the Teutons ' are trying to break through to take Diaz's line in the rear. Four successive , attacks by the army of General Krobatin, j which operates on this sector, were ! beaten off by the Italians. Berlin was j unable to announce any new progress I in its day bulletin. j The situation continues very critical. ! The Teutons now have massed the bulk i of their heavy guns and a great number i of reserves for the final onslaught. 1 Only one great strategic mountain remains re-mains to be taken by them before they can pour down into the plain. This is Monte Grappa, to the east of Asiago. A height of minor importance, Monte Fenera, Fen-era, and the summit and southern slopes of Monte Tomba are still stubbornly defended de-fended by the Italians. Around Monte Grappe a battle has been raging now three nights and three days, and no end is yet in sight. "With courage beyond all the praise," the Rome war office statement puts it, the Italians drove back the Teuton storming columns trying to wrest Monte Fenera from them. In the Meletta region re-gion the Italian counter-offensive continues, con-tinues, but Rome itself describes it as a local one. The entire Venetian campaign cam-paign now admittedly depends upon the outcome of the Monte Grappa battle. Berlin calls the fighting there and on : Monte Tomba desperate. The statement ' asserts the Italians came on in close masses and were decimated by the Teu- ! ton fire. j Along the. Piave the Italians are hold- j ing their own. No fresh attempts to j cross the river had been undertaken bj the Teutons up to early this evening. From Paris came the news today that General Fayolle, who is to command the French forces sent to the Italian front, has started for Venetia. HEAD OF FRENCH-ITALIAN FRENCH-ITALIAN FORCES LEAVES FOR FRONT PARTS. Nov. 20. General Marie Fa voile, commander of the French forces in italv. departed last night to take up his duties. General Fayolle -is an artilleryman. lie. was retired six weeks before the war be-, gan, but offered his services and ie-celvert ie-celvert a command. He served under General Petain at Carency In IPlo and afterward was promoted and placed in command of the Sixth army. He conducted con-ducted the operations on the S-omrne which resulted in the retreat of the Germans Ger-mans to the Hindenburg line. Ho then took command of 1 he central group of armies. Jt was under hlni that" General Guillaumat finished clearing the approaches ap-proaches to Verdun. General Fayolle has a refutation as a scientific -Foldler. earned largelv while he was professor at the war school. TRICKERY USED BY GERMANS ON ITALIAN FRONT WASHINGTON. Nov. 2ft. Capture of U'0'i Austrians who crossed t !ie 1 'a ve river is announced in a messace from General Dia.7., the Italian commander hi chief, to his army, received todav by cable. Teutonic propaganda tork of the Italian front com inues 10 finurisn through tne dropping of pamphlets by aviators. An official dispatch from Rome today says: The enemy airnta nes continue to throw to our soldiers pamphlets hi which they express t heir benevolent disposition toward the invaded towns and the populations, aiso assuring the soldiers that t'-"5 Anst nans have a scrupulous respect for international laws and that the, present cupMion Continued on Paaa Two- 1115 HALT FOE; COUNTER FIERCELY (Continued from Page One.) 1 lor.'-' statement on the militarv situation, to indi.-Ltte thai tr.e entente :r.ig..t as. well r'H't up all hope, of defeating Germany a no come to terms wiL; the central powers. 1 '1'ne ;;:'(; dispatch, gives tiie imprps-; imprps-; si on of ha .ing been :a re fully prepared oin-jaliy tor toe con cspund'-nt and may ot- e.-.arded as a feeler. ; Reports from Stockholm, also men tion -! lr.g th"' allr-ued determination of the. LoHh.-viki '.'OivriKiiL'ta to declare tiie war enued as fur as Uu.ssia is concerned, in-i in-i dicat t hat La; indirect channel through ! wui'.-h tiie reports were received Is a neu- iral diplomatic on. although it is de-i de-i 'dared t!,at tiie Swedish foreign of lice is riot tue source in question. The fciolshe-viki. fciolshe-viki. in the ail.ge.l overtures, claims to have established the'.r power mroufifiout Russia arid to be in a position to enforce I their will. Nothing has been heard in usually well-In well-In form d I finish quarters this afternoon i with regard to the report. A Pane who is in a posi tion to judu'e the sentimpnt j of both Lngiand and Germany t old the I Associated Press today liiat he expected a long continuation of the war. i |
