Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
kaiser,s Back Wall Has Fallen
/. and His Front Wall Is
crumhing Fast.
IHIhDENBuRG LINE SMASHED
z Bulgaria. surrendsrs Internationally
| + and Turkey 10 WobbiIns-st. ,ouen-
tin and Damascus Captured n
sHias Preparing To Get
Out of BdHfum.
BY EDWARD ". PlcxARp

- Inc sKalser put MS back to q wall In
the vain effort to check the allies
on the western front, and the wall
Collapsed. Bulgaria surrendered, prac.
tically Internationally; Turkey al
once put out peace feeles; Austria.
Hungary cried for cessation Of the
war, and the Ukrainians rose in re.
volt against the. Huns.
!s Meanwhile the allies kept up tlleii
ceaseless hammering at the kaisers
front wall-the Hindenburg line-and
Fby smashing through 1t at many
points proved 1t was not the impreg.
nable system of defense that the Ger.
mans bad supposed IT to be. From the
sea to Verdun the battle blazed day
and night, and the official reports
showed an almost unbroken series o1
victories for the allies. The Belgian
army, assisted by British troops and,
expectedly, by a French army
Jumped into the fray at the beginning
Of the week, and, taking Dfxmude and
the! important Wytschaete ridge, ad.
vanced swiftly as far as Roulers
Thereupon the Huns began making
preparations that indicated complete
withdrawal from Belgium. North and
south Of La Bassee canal they were
I'm full fight, with the British close on
their heels, and as Haig's men ap.
preached Lille the enemy began the
evacuation Of that city, the German
commander requisitioning all means
OF transportation to remove his plum.
der. Investing Roulers, the allies gain.
ed control Of the railroad to the Ger.
man submarine bases at Ostend AID
/, Zeebruggee and 1t was reported the
foe was removing his heavy guns from
the Belgian coast and that the gov
!ernor general Of Belgium rShad In
ssructed the provincial governors tc
send all their archives at once to Brus
sells.
Armentieres and Lens were aban
doned by the Huns Tuesday night.
In the attack on Cambrai the Brit
ish, with whom an American contin
gent was fighting, met with desperate
resistance and here and there suffer
ed q local reverse, but they could no,
be long checked and pushed aheat
with dogged determination until the,
had the city at their mercy. The Hun,
burned vast quantities of stores IN
i their preparations for withdrawal
-
~ Next to the south comes the st
Quentin sector, and there the Frencl
under General 5Debeney won grea,
Victory, capturing the city after tre
mendous fighting, which was fiercest III
and about the St Quentin canal. This
place was one Of the keystones Of the
. Hindenburg line and it's capture as
sured the retirement Of the Germans
ON wide front. Immediately north d
St. Quentin the British were engaged
ibys enemy reserves Of storming troops
and the fighting was furious. But the
British succeeded in breaking through
the German line on the Beauvoir- Wian
court front and created salient that
! greatly helped In the capture Of st
!. Quentin by the French.
Between the Disc at La Fere and
the. Aisne the French pushed on to
ward La0n and succeeded in passing
!. beyond tn elaborate system Of water
ways that comprised the chief defense
Of the enemy and reaching open coun.
try. where the tanks could operate tc
advantage. North Of Reims Foclet
troops drove the Huns back to the Aisne
saad the Aisne Marne canal, clearing
Dc country north OF the vesle and re
leasing q number Of towns. They alst
I .6linsd ths entire q. Thierry masstf. Z