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Show HSNDENBURG ON ITALIAN FRONT Field Marshal Leading Big Drive to Crush Forces of j King Victor. ENSLAVING CIVILIANS Elaborate Plans to Roll Down Like an Avalanche on Italians' Upset. I WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. The Aus-tro-German invaders in Italy, official dispatches received here today from Rome, are compelling the civilian population pop-ulation of tho captured region without respect to age or sex, to work on fortifications for-tifications of the Tagliamento, the bank of the Piave and tho Cadoro zones. I A German officer taken prisoner, dispatches say, confirms that Hinden-burg Hinden-burg had personal charge of the drive into Italy. According to his plan, says the dispatch, dis-patch, General Conrad was to roll down like an avalanche on tho Sette Comuni plateau while the armies of Krobatin and Von Below were, to pour into the Brenta valley, surmount the mountainous barrier and descend into the fertile Venetian plain The commencement com-mencement of the colossal offensive was set for the 14 th of November with tho .arrival of Austro-Gorman troops at Castelgoaherto, but the Italian resistance re-sistance before Gallio and Melotta upset up-set tho plans. |