ITALIAN OFFENSIVE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17464, 5 November 1918, Page 5

ITALIAN OFFENSIVE

ALLIES' ADVANCE CONTINUED. CAPTURES OP PRISONERS AND GUNS. LONDON, November 3. Italian official : Our First Army entered the action yesterday, and captured Mount Majo. Our Sixth Army continues to advance on tlie Asiago Plateau, capturing numerous guns and prisoners. There is lively rearguard fighting in the Sugana anid Cismou Valleys. Our cavalry, still fighting, have reached the right bank of the Tagliamento. The number of prisoners and the booty are increasing. British-Italian official: We are well to the eastward of the Livenrza River. The prisoners captured by the Tenth Army exceed 15,000 and 150 guns, of which 10,000 prisoners and over 100 guns were captured by the Fourteenth British Corps. In the operations on the Asiago Plateau the Forty-eighth British Division took 200 prisoners.—A. and N.Z. and Reuter.

TRIESTE OCCUPIED.

ENEMY REGIMENT 'SHRRENDEIR.

MONTREAXi, November 3. The United Press Rome correspondent telegraphs that the Italian forces have occupied Trieste. The United Press correspondent on the Italian front states that the entire Austrian regiments have surrendered in the Val Lagarina region.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

DETAILS OF SUCCESSES. LONDON, November 3 (7.40 p.m.). (Received Nov. 4, at 8.35 p.m.) Italian official: The Seventh Army is entering the struggle. It has broken through the enemy fortifications at Sella del Tonale, and is now proceeding in the Sermiglio Valley. It has forced Villareia and captured Col Santo, northward of Pasubio.

. Other armies continue to advance irreThe prisoners now number 100,000, with more than, 2200 guns. Our cavalry has occupied Udiiie.—A. and N.Z. and Eeuter.

AUSTRIANS CEASE RESISTANCE. LONDON, November 3. (Received Nov. 4, at 8.35 p.m.) An Austrian official message, dated Vienna, 3rd inst., says: In the Italian theatre of war our troops have ceased hostilities on the basis of the armistice which has been concluded.—A. and N Z and Reuter.'

DESTRUCTION OF AUSTRIAN DREADNOUGHT. RESPONSIBLE OFFICERS TAKEN PRISONER. ,t> - -AMSTERDAM, November 3 (Received Nov. 4, at 9.15 p.m.) Vienna advices state that two Italian naval officers entered the Pola roadstead at night and biew up the Viribus Unitis, most of whose crew were saved Rome advices say that Engineer-com-mander Rosette and Surgeon-lieutenant Parolegi were responsible for the destruction of the Viribus. It is believed that both -were taken prisoner.—Reuter.