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War Conditions A Review of the World War Week
A weekly panorama shows Austro Hungarian retreat from Silevio to the Adriatic as Italian and allied forces push from Lake Garda to the Adriatic. Western front quiet, Italian front roars with 40,000 Austrian prisoners. Turkish capitulation looms, Allied ships eye the Dardanelles, and US troops press in Italy. In France, Pershing’s men breach Meuse lines near Verdun. armistice terms discussed. Germany faces possible disaster on the western front as American and French pressure increases. Ghent falls near certainty as Allied forces converge, threatening German positions along the Meuse and Scheldt corridors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silevio
Adriatic
Lake Garda
Piave
Venetia
Isonzo
Tenth
Sacili
Poave
Great Teutonic Alliance
Bulgaria
Turkey
Austria
Germany
Dardenelles
Bosphorus
United States
Ottoman Empire
Black Sea
Romania
Russia
St. Fergeau
Aisne
Rethel
Argonne Forest
Pershing
Grand Pre
Loges Wood
France
Italy
Diaz
Allied War Council
Versailles
Verdun
Meuse River
Stenay Gap
Dardanelles
Near East
Meuse