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Show oo HEROIC FIGHT OF ITALIAN FORCES ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS, Saturday. Sat-urday. Nov. 10, G p. m. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Observers from advanced ad-vanced positions along the front say the Austrian advance is not showing the impetuous rush of previous davsj and evidently is slackening as it gets' farther from its base. Tho largest guns they have brought into play thus far are of a type about the same as our five-Inch. They have been unable to bring for-I for-I ward any of their heavy guns, doubt-I doubt-I less because of the condition of the i brldLges and roads torn up or destroyed 1 by the Italians. , The fighting is taking a wide range ; from the Trentino eastward to the Tagliamento and then southward to the sea. but these are detached actions while tho main forces of both sides are establishing their positions. Renewal tonight of a heavy downpour down-pour of rain will swell the LIvenza and other streams fed from the mountains, increasing the difflcutles of bringing forward heavy artillerj'. Every day the enemy becomes wearier and Is faced with greater determination de-termination by the Italians. The Aus-tro-Germans continue their plan of advancing ad-vancing with their right wing, evidently evi-dently still hoping to envelop the center cen-ter of the Italian rear guard and cut off the right wing of the retiring main body. Thus far their plan has been frustrated by the Indomitable resistance resist-ance of he covering troops, who inflicted in-flicted heuvy punishment upon tho enemy. From those hills across the Pinvo valley the Italian troops wrote a fresh chapter in history by their intrepidity. Notwithstanding overwhelming numbers num-bers of Austro-Germans, the Italians opened such a terrific fire that they obliged the enemy's heavy columns to withdraw temporarily and await reinforcements rein-forcements of artillery. When tho advance ad-vance was resumed, protected by violent vio-lent fire from field batteries, tho in-cossant in-cossant rattle of Italian machine guns inflicted new losses on tho foe, whose numerical superiority permitted hiin to continue his progress, although slowly. Meanwhile, tho Italians mndo all preparations to retire In good order, protcctod by charges of their cavalry which rushed like an avalanche down tho slopes of the hills, their sabres and lances cutting down tho enemy with irresistible force, while a thousand throats rose the wild war cry, "Savoia! Savoia!" Their impotus exhausted by the unending un-ending ranks of tho opposing army, the few survivors withdrew, still fighting to rejoin their main body, which owed its safety mainly to them, as the delay they had caused in the enemy's ad-vanco ad-vanco permitted an unmolested crossing cross-ing of the river. oo |
