THE AUSTRIAN MILITARY DISASTER

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 34, 4 November 1918, Page 5

THE AUSTRIAN MILITARY DISASTER

80,000 PRISONERS AND ENORMOUS WAR MATERIAL CAPTURED AUSTRIAN DREADNOUGHT SUNK London, November l; A British official report from tlio Italian front statc3:-';Wo occupied Sacile and the San Tenth Army reached the Liwiaa ftom Sacile as far southward L Brußne t Tho 'Centh Army is advancing rapidly south of the, Odeno-Porto .The Fourth/Army captured. on the Grappa sector, where the enemy is falling back, Ine lentn Armys prisoners nuXr over 13,000."-Au 8 ,N.Z. Coble Asm.-Eouter. (Rec. November 3/ 5.5 p.m.) London, November 2. A British-Italian official report states :-"The Italian Tenth Army orossed tho Livenza between Motta and Sacile, and is now bridging the river. The Forty, I ghth DMsion advanced its lines ovoi-amile northward of Monte Cats, u apite of machine-gun resistance."-Aus..N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. (Rec. November 3,11.5 p.m.) Washington, November 2. Renorts from Italy indioate the complete.defeat of the Austrian army. The Italte have capturea a million-sterling worth of booty, seven hundred guns, imi «v o ntv thoiieand prisoners. Tho Italian cavalry has crossed the Livenza, and s now WaSSnto. British, French, and Italian aeroplanes are harassing ft" routed enemy. The capture of Udine u impendmg.-Aus..N.Z. Cable Assn. CAVALRY ADVANCING TO THE TAGLIAMENTO (Rec. November 3, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 1. Oa the Italian front tho patrols aro pushing northward from Vittorio towniXnolliino Tho army has reached tho Livenza. River on ten miles of front, whilefthe cavalry is pushing through to the Tagliamento River.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AUSTRIAN FORCES ON THE PIAVE SEPARATED (Rec. November 3, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 2. The Italians have effectively separated the Austrian armies on the Upper and Lower Piave. Tho Hungarians and Germans are fighting well, though the Austrian army is in a most difficult position. The Archduke Joseph's group of armies may be able to retire if necessary to Bavaria. The enemy has held up the Allied advance in the Aaiago region—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assn.