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Show 33,1 PUIS CAPTURED BY THE ALLIES ' - j American Infantry Is In Action And Fighting Extends Along The Piave River Vienna, Thursday, Oct. 81. via London. Lon-don. "In view of our desire for peace, our troops on Italian soil are evacuating occupied regions," says an official statement issued late tonight, i Over a front of Bome sixty miles, ' from the Brenta river In northern Italy to the vicinity of the Adriatic sea, the AustroJllungarians are being violently attacked by Italian, 'British, French and 'American troops. In the mountain region the enemy Is resisting desperately and holding his ground fairly well But east of the 'Piave river he Is in flight across the plains of Trevlso, shaping his course over the same territory through which he drove the Italians-.a Italians-.a year ago and reached the eastern edge of the plains of Venetla. Already numerous towns have been' liberated, 33,000 prisoners have been: taken and large "numbers of guns and machine guns and huge quantities, of stores have fallen Into the hands of the allied troops. Far behind the lines allied aviators are heavily bombing enemy columns In dense masses that are in retreat over badly congested roads leading eastward toward the Austrian frontier. |