The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-10-25
BELGIAN SEACOAST
CLEARED OF HUNS
zEEBRUGGE, GREAT TEUT SUB
MARINE BASE, FALLS
TO ALLIES
HUNS 'BESTED EVERYWHERE
German Dream of Invading England
Via Calais Goes Glmmering-Huns
Withdrawing to Shorter Line
to Make Another Stand
twar Review for october 1el

(War Review for October 19)
The Belgian coast again is Belgian.
Germany's dream of an invasion of
England across the North sea from
Calais is ended.
Belgian Flanders is fast being evac-
uated by the enemy and his line from
the Belgian front to the Meuse river
gradually is giving wary under the at
tacks of the British, French and Amer
lean armies which are demanding to
be served with victory.
!, A haven of safety in a shorter and
more compact line is being sought by
the Germans in order to escape ami
hilation by their foes. Everywhere
they are being whipped. But seeming
ly they are still far from defeat.
In Belgium the enemy is giving
ground in order to bring his armies
safely out of the trap which menaces
them, but from the French frontier to
the Meuse river he still is fighting
desperately to hold back the lower jaw
of the great French pincer from clos
ing in great conyerging movement
and trapping in its nav the German
Fighting force in its entirety. And
thus far he has successfully, through
the use of picked troops and machine
gunners who know defeat only in
death, warded off the eliminating
blow.
Second Sub Base Falls.
Zeebrugge Germany's second great |
submarine base on the North sea, has
gone the way of Ostend. The flag of |
Belgium once more flies over 1t. TO |
the south, Bruges has been evacuated,
and Turcoing, Roubaix and other |
towns have been delivered. Out of |
the great sack between the North sea
and the Lys river the enemy is flee
ing fast in an endeavor to prevent
capture or internment in Holland. His
hope is that he will be able to reach
Antwerp and there recOnstitute his
line from the Dutch frontier through
Antwerp and Namur to some point III
the south. probably Sedan or Metz,
and stabilize it, for the moment at
least, to the Swiss border.
In France. east of Lille to Cambria,
the British slowly but surely are press
ing forward despite supreme efforts
of the enemy to hold them from blot
ting out the big salient which has
Journal as its north and Valenciennes
its southern enemy held bases. 70 as
sure the collapse of this salient Field
Marshal Haig, with whose forces are
brigaded men from the United States,
is driving hard along the Bohain-Le
Cateau front in a maneuvevr which is
with success and throwing
into a dangerous pocket.
Strong Rear Guard Actions.
g To the south. in the sack between
the Disc and the Serre rivers north
Of Iaon. the Germans are slowly With
drawing to Hirson, with the enemy i'm ,
peding the allies progress with strong
rear guards. Likewise in Champagne !
the Germans are offering strong re-
sistance against the French and Amer
leans in their attempts to drive north
ward to Mezieres and Sedan. The
French. nevertheless, have been able
TO cross the Aisne river near Nouziers
and thus have made more secure the
positions of the Franco-Americans
in the valley of the Aire and Grand
Pre-.
To the east the Americans on both
sides of the Mouse are slowly going !
Between the great wooded
bastion and the Mouse picked troops
have been chosen to fend the blow s
northward toward Sedan. All the
ground that is being won is being vail
opt1v dafandad tO thp last
In the Macedonian theater the I
Greeks are now in full possession of G
Greek Macedonia. Albania is fast be- /
ing cleared of the enemy and in Serbia L
the Teutonic allied forces have been I
driven 80 miles north of Nish. In L
SYRIA the victorious forces of General t
AIlenby now are meeting with scant
resistance.
Hun Orgies Stop?
The Germans, at least for the mo-
nent, seem to have stopped their
)rgies of burning and destroying, part
v through fear of what the allied c
troops may have chance to do be n
fore long. Recent reportsesay no fires p
If any consequence have been OBJ
served except at places close to the G
inc. o
How many thousands of civilians
nave been delivered from the Germans p
Turing the past three days is uncer- b
ain, but the number runs well into il
he thousands. G