ITALIAN THEATRE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16361, 5 November 1918, Page 8

ITALIAN THEATRE.

ITALIANS OCCUPY TRIESTE. - (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright., (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) MONTREYL, November 3. The United Press Rome rorrespondent telographs Lnat the Italian torces have occupied Trieste. * AUSTRIAN REGIMENTS h SURRENDER. MONTREAL, November 3. Tho United Press correspondent on the Italian front states that entire Austrian regiments surrendered on the > al- J tagarina region. * ITALIAN OFFICIAL MESSAGE. (Australian and K./j. Cable Association.) (Renter's Telegrams.) LONDON, November 3. An Italian official message states:— The First Army entered the action < yesterday and captured Mount Majo. j The Sixth Army continues to advance on c the Asiago Plateau, capturing numer- 1 ous guns and prisoners. There was livelv rearguard fighting in the Sugana and i Cismon valleys, cavalry fighting reach- j ing the right bank of the Tagliamento. ; The total of prisoners and booty is in- ( creasing. " " 1 (Received November 4£h, 8.35 p.m.) ( LONDON, November 3 (7.40 p.m.) An Italian official message states: — Tho Seventh Army entering the struggle has broken through the enemy's fortifications at Sella del Tonalo, and is now proceeding up the ] Sermiglio* Valley. It has forced Villa- « reia and captured Col Santo, northward ' of Pasubio. The other armies continue j to advance irresistibly. i The prisoners now number 100,000, < with mere than 2200 guns. ] Our cavalry have occupied Udine. AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL MESSAGE. (Received November 4th, 8.35 p.m.) j LONDON, November 3. An Austrian official message, dated Vienna, October 3rd, says:— In the Italian theatre of war our troops havo ceased hostilities on the basis of tho armistice which has .been concludod. BRITISH ITALIAN OFFICIAL MESSAGE. (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association.) (Reuter's Telegrams.) LONDON, November 3. A British-Italian official message We are well to the eastward of "the Livonza River. The prisoners captured by the Tenth Army exceed 15,000; 150 guns have also been taken. Of 10,000 men and over 100 guns were captured by the Fourteenth British Corps in operations on the Asiaj;o Plateau. The Forty-eighth Division took 200 prisoners. WAR IN THE AIR. SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S REPORT. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright; (Australian and N.Z>. Cable Association.) (Reuter's Telegrams.; LONDON. November 3. Sir Douglas Haig reports:— We dropped fifteen and a half tons of bombs, ana many direct hits were observed on railways. We shot down thirteen enemy aeroplanes, and drove down seven uncontrollable. Ten British machines are missing. FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT. LONDON, November 3. A French communique reports:— I Despite dense fog on the whole front 1 our aviators were most active. Two of their reconnaissances pushed seventyfive miles to the enemy's rear, as great activity of troops sind convoys is reported in the enemy rear opposite the Argonne front. _ One hundred and forty-eight bombing planes, in successive groups, protected by 120 fighting planes, dropped 40 tons- of explosives and fired thousands of cartridges, causing a panic and dispersing enemy concentrations. Seventeen German aeroplanes were shot down, and twenty-one tons of bombs were dropped on the enemy stations at night. NANCY~BOMBED. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE AND NUMEROUS VICTIMS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received November 4th. 7.15 p.m.) PARIS, Novomber 3. Gothas violently bombed Nancy on Thursday night. Considerable damage was done, and there were numerous victims. Although there had been many alarms on the previous two days, the inhabitants did not believe ihe enemy would attack open towns while | the armistice was pending.