Identifier: literarydigesthi09hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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uld turn when America entered the con-flict. They were now going about proudly saying: I toldyou so. The American work in France, at this time on theMarne, was celebrated by them as if it had been their ownsuccess. On October 25 the Allies broke into Austrian positionson a twenty-mile front between the Brenta and the Piave,stormed important and formida))le mountains, and tookabout 3,000 prisoners, Diaz had attacked in a criticalsector, where a successful advance could force an army towithdraw on the whole mountain-front and give up theline of the Piave, By the new drive it was evidently hopedto add sudden military defeat in the field to the internalcauses which were forcing Austria toward peace. The timewas ripe. Three months had gone by since Boroevics of-fensive, which was to take Venice and roll the Italians backto the Adige, had ingloriously failed, Foch since then hadwon great victories in France, Now, if ever, could Italyhope to thrust the Austro-Hungarian armies back out of 144
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CKXERAL DIAZCommander-in-Chief of the Italian armies after Caporetto IX THE ALPS AND OX THE ADRIATIC Italian territory. In Austria-Hungary, as in Bulgaria, themilitary authorities were simply waiting for a defeat inthe field in order to find a plausible excuse for surren-dering. By October 29 the battle was proceeding on a front ofabout fifty miles from the Asiago to the Piave betweenTreviso and Oderzo, and Italians and British had brokenthrough the Austrian lines across the Piave on a thirty-mile front between Yaldobbiadeue and Roncadelle. Theyhad driven a great wedge into them northeast of Treviso,and advanced more than five miles east of the Piave on afifteen-mile front. In the mountain region they extendedtheir gains north of the Ornic river. The retreat was fastapproaching a rout. Diazs armies had driven the enemyback evervwhere in disastrous fighting with a few Americantroops held in readiness to aid them. The battle was fastassuming the proportions of the Italian debacle of a y

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