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Show Numbers o f Airplanes Preceding Troops Using Us-ing Machine Guns on Retreating Austrians. Deplorable Instances Come to Light of Enemy En-emy Atrocities During Period of Invasion, VIENNA, Nov. 1, via London. The withdrawal of Austrian troops in Venetia continues and, southeast, main forces of the Austrian army have reached the northern bank of the Danube, according to the official offi-cial statement issued at the war office of-fice tonight. By th' Associated,, .Press.. .. From the mountain regions oi northern j Italy to the plain of Venetia, and .on salient sectors in Belgium and France, the armies of the Teutonic allies are bc-Mng bc-Mng violently attacked by troops of the entente. In I tab", except On several .sectors in the hill country, the enemy is fast being overwhelmed; in both Belgium and Prance additional splendid gains have been recorded in favor of the entente, in the achievement of which men from the United States took a goodly part. In Serbia the Austrians and Germans are fast making their way out of the little kingdom, many of them already having crossed the Danube. French and Serbian cavalry have reached Belgrade, from where a ' fast turning movement westward along the Save river is likely to work havoc with those of the enemy forces coming northward In western Serbia Ser-bia and those who are struggling northward north-ward through Albania. EYES OF WORLD ON ITALIAN THEATER. So far as Turkey is concerned, her capitulation is an abject one, and the Ottoman no longer is to prove a factor in the world war. Although the new smashes of the British, Brit-ish, French and Americans in Belgium and France have been markedly successful success-ful in the carrying out of the general program pro-gram of ridding French and Belgian soil of the invaders, it is still the Italian theater on which the eyes o" tne world are centered. Internal strife in Germany and Austria-Hungary and continued pleadings from the dual monarchy Tor an armistice and a cessation of hostilities 1 have received scant notice when compared with the impression that the wonderful drive of the Italians and their allies against tho Austro-Hungarians baa made upon the world at large. Everywhere the enemjc is being defeated defeat-ed in Italy. In the Alpine region, where the natural barriers had acted as bastions of defense, the enemy line has been broken at salient points and the foe compelled com-pelled to seek safety in retreat to further mountain strongholds. On the plains the retrograde movement of the enemy toward to-ward the Tagliamento river is virtually a complete rout, with allied airplanes violently vio-lently attacking with machine guns the throngs of the enemy hurrying eastward, with the cavalry cutting to pieces the stragglers, and the infantry- and machine gunners 'ittking a heavy toll in men killed J or wounded. NUMEROUS TROPHIES TAKEN BY ALLIES. Great numbers of '.he Austro-Hungarians st'.l! continue to be winnowed j back of the line to the prison cages. Iarge quantities of stores are still falling fall-ing into the hands of the entente forces and numerous additional towns are being liberated. More than 700 guns already have been added to the store of other trophies taken by the allies. In Belgium, along the Scheldt from Berehem to Gavere, King Albert's men have pressed Torward in the general direction di-rection of" Ghent and at last accounts (Continued on Pac Eiht ITALIANS OBTAIN BILLIONS li BOOTY (Continued from Page Oue.) were standing on the western Hide of the - anal, which the Germans had hoped before be-fore the concentrated attack was legun against them some time ago would prove a strong point In their northern defensive system. To the south, below Valenciennes. English Eng-lish and Canadian troops have driven the German line farther eastward over a front of six miles. Inflicting exceptionally heavy casualties on the enemy and drawing draw-ing their line almost to the outskirts of southern Valenclennea. Several thousand prisoners were taken in the enterprise. On the aouthern part of the front the French and American troops sre driving northward over wide fronts, clearing the onemv from the territory Which It is essential es-sential for him to hold If his line from Belgium to the Meuse is to be retained Intact. |
