WAR NEWS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 7 November 1918, Page 3

WAR NEWS.

MONDAY. 80,000 Prisoners — Great Italian Victory—Austria in DissolutionCapture of Valenciennes—Americans Sweep Forward. Eighty thousand prisoners and 1600 guns have been taken in the offensive in Italy. Between Asiago and the sea the Austrians are in full retreat under close pressure. Revolution has become general in Austria. A Nationnl Council has taken complete control in Buda Pest. A National Council met in Vienna on Wednesday and declared for government by a Constituent Assembly without a monarch. The Austrian Navy has been handed over to the Southern Slav National Council. The offensive in the west was renewed on Friday on practically the whole front, from the Dutch border to the Meuse. Important gains have been made in Flanders. Valenciennes has been taken by English and Canadian troops. A new attack was begun by the French and Americans on the Aisne-Meuse front. Stubbornlydefended enemy positions were won, and on the right the Americans made rapid progress.

TUESDAY Austria Defeated—Surrender to the Allies — War Council Imposes Terms—German Resistance Fails — Retreat on Three Sectors. Austria ceased to be a belligerent yesterday afternoon, an armistice having been signed on Sunday by General Diaz, Conr mander-in-Chief of the Italian Forces, imposing terms dictated by the Allied War Council. An Austrian message states that hostilities have ceased in the Italian theatre according to the terms of the armistice. Unremitting British pressure has forced the enemy to make a further withdrawal east and south-east of Valenciennes. Four villages have been taken in the course of the advance and numbers of prisoners. The German retreat before the Americans on the Meuse is becoming disorganised. The fighting in Flanders has resulted in further enemy withdrawals, and the Belgians crossed the Derivation Canal. WEDNESDAY Allied Onslaught— New British Offensive—Pressure by Americans— , Italys Triumphant Army * British forces attaoked on a front of 25 miles. The combined fronts total 30 miles, and an advance of from a mile to two miles has been made, Between the Aisne and the Meuse the Americans continue to advanoe on the enemy's main line of lateral communications. They have advanced 14 miles since Saturday. , ' . Three million Italian troops freed by the armistice are stated to be ready to throw their weight against Germany.