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ITALIANS TAKE TRENT; LAND ARMY IN TRIES T; ARGONNE AREA FREEDEntire Regiments Surrender As Fortified Tyrol City Falls—Cavalry Reaches Udine—Allies May TrapArmies Ref ore Border Is Reached.Americans Bomb Fteeing Huns West of Meuse4 Capture Complete Bavarian Battalions French Push Forward on Aisne Front Taking Gwry and La Croix-au-Bois With 2,000 Prisoners—Serbian Army Reoccupies Belgrade—Pershing*s Men With Belgians Advance Over 10 Miles in Tow Bays•v (By the Associated Press) ^Trent, in Austrian Tyrol, which the Italians always have claimed as their own, has been captured by them; Triest, Austria’s principal seaport on the Adriatic, over which there has been such bitter fighting, now flies the Italian flag; and Belgrade, capital of Serbia, has been reoeeupied by the Serbians*In France and Belgium the Germans are being sorely harassed by the British, French, Americans and Belgians, and there site indications that a debacle is about to %occur. ^Foe Retreats East of Meuse.The Argonne massif^ which has proved a great obstacle to the advance of the French and Americans, at last has been cleared of the enemy, and the entire line appears to be crumbEng. American airmen report that the enemy in front of the Americans are retreating northward, that the roads are densely packed with troops, artillery and transport.French and British Press Huns.Likewise southeast of ^fxlendenhes the Germans are retreating before the British, who are in close pursuit, and taking numerous prisoners* North of the Aisne in Champagne the French! continue their pressure and have taken several important villages, large nihnbers of prisoner* and great quantities of war'stores..#' vThe advance of the- Americans and French on the souihern^part of the battlefrpnt, take jtin con junction with the operations of Field Mer-afaBfl.1 Haig and the Belgians In north*, threatens to prove the culmiJ hating blow to Germany's attempts to hold ground fn France or Bel-gium. Indeed^ at Is not improbable if the advance from the south con* .tinues as rapid as it is, the greater portion of the German army will be trapped before the men can reach their border. The situation of the Germans seemingly is a critical one.Fleming Austrians Heavily Punished*Although the Austro-Hungarians have been given an armistice they are still being bitterly attacked by the Italian, British, French, American annd Czecho-Siovak troops in the mountains an don the plains and will continue under chastisement until Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock, when a cessatio of hostilities will take placeEntire regiments are surrendering to the Italians in the mountains annd large numbers of the enemy are being made prisoner on the plain's. Heavy casualties are befog Inflicted on the retiring troops. Many additional towns have been reclaimedOver 100,000 Prisoners Taken-In their swift drive against the Austro-Hungarians the allied forces have up tp the present taken more than 100,0 00 prisoners and have captured more than 2,200 guns So rapid has been the advance over the plains that Italian cavalry already hs crossed the TagHmento River nnd entered UdineITALIAN TRI-COLOR FLIES FROM CASTLE AND TOWER IN TRIEST(By tli* Associated Pre»*.) , Ing to the war office announcementHome, Nov 3.—The Italians have tonight captured Trent, one of Austria’s chief ! Ita3ian ^ccs have landed at Triestfortified towns in the Tyrol, accord- j ^ CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE.AMERICANS IN TANKS OUTFLANK BATTERY; TAKE 4 SIX-INCH GUNSWith the American Army Northwest of Verdun, Saturday, Nov. 2 (By the Associated —A battery offour 6-lnch howitzers, with 3 officers and 17 gunners, was taken north of Landrevllie today by three French tanks manned by AmericansThe tanks flanked the battery by going around the edge of a hill in the face of machine guns protecting the cannon. The gunners threw up their [the men on the land battleships turned their prisoners over to In* fantrymen.The tank squadron was commanded by liieut. Lloyd Callahan, of Cassell ton, N Dak* who himself operated a machine gun on one of the tanka. After_ prisoners had been taken tho three machines mopped up the lt;chine gun nests in the region of th* battery, and then went on about thelyhands when the tanka appeared, and I business toward the hills beyond.AUSTRIANS. IN PELL-MELL FLIGHTHARASSED BY MACHINE GUN FIRE(By the A*oclal«d Prnv.)With the Italian Forces in Northern Italy; Saturday, Nov. 2, 3 p. m — The battle continues, with the Italians and their allies completing the destruction of Austria’s mighty army. It is estimated that 8,000 Austrian cannon will be the total taken by the Italians, in addition to vasl quantities of other wkr material.The allied faro** are ever pressing on toward the frontier in the meuu*-tain*. They already have reached the Val Bugna. where the Italians are holding their line of a year ago.The word strategy” cannot bo used In Austria's retreat, which la a pell-mell effort on the part of the various bodies to save themselves* The Austrian* are fleeing helter-skelter, fighting in the mountains when obliged to do so* On the plains tfcsy are merely putting up rear-guard looal fights with machine guns, blowing up bridges as they go along. The long tines of enemy troop* «i reads are being pelted with the machine guns of allied airplane* 1Austrian* Smrt WouwM.The retreat #f the A Mirth** la being hindered hr the e*pdif)m of the road* Ibr the same reason theItalian advene* in tome region* in •low.The Austrian* an* leaving their wounded by tba rtmdeid* or hi Mknoa. Two thousand A***** wrondo* were deserted in rifw ertibsM nn*hm or znedlfcth*Udine ha* b**» TMsaSli* *k* d«Upopulation everywhere complains tbat they were stripped of everything of value by the enemy in the invaded provinces • Thousands of cannon are being captured by the Italians In addition to great quantities of war materlaL At Vittorio a big petroleum deposit was found, the Austrians not taking Ihe trouble to burn it* Great quantities of telegraph wire also were left u*i destroyed. At Bslluno a large depot of food and material was found by the Italians, The allies frequently, captured long trains of artillery, one train being taken at Rash near Fsl« irsi it having been abandoned by the retreating Austrians in their heats,Cannon Taken in Mountains#XI was on Oeteber at) that the sn« *my received a mortal blow by a main attack across the Stiver Fiev*. This permitted the Mghth army to meveto Vittorio end gave the Fourth army a chance to operatorThen piece by pie**, corps by corps and division by division the Austrian armies have fallen When the ItaUu, Fourth-army reached Monte Clemen* at the junction of the BrenUU it g*V*« the Twelfth army a chance te egwrat* at Feltre, In the upper Plave VftJiw and also permitted the Sixth uer is go into action lit fhe Astago dletris*-*Between the Fourth and Sixth armies the chief Austrian real stance is Italy was broken. It was In th% mountains that the greatest numbs*UjJ ABItMU. —Ml ■ llif f
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