The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-10-05
Bulgaria, Its Armies Smashed
and Borders Crossed, Asks
for an Armistice.
SEEKS A SEPARATE PEACE
Turkey Also Is Utterly Demorallzed
by General AIIenby's Splendid Sue
cess in PaIestine-Allies Start
Two New Offensives on
the Western Front.
BY EDWARD w. PICkARD.

Bulgaria, battered and invaded by
the allies, broke down last week and
made a formal appeal to her foes for
an armistice and eventual peace. The
request was made first to General d'Es-
percy, commanding the allies in
Macedonia, by the commander Of the
Bulgarian army, and then to the allied
governments by Premier Malinoff.
lD'Esperey promptly refused to suspend
military operations but said he would
receive delegates of the Bulgarian gov
jernment. Liaptcheff, minister Of
finance, and General Loukoff, ON
rmanding the Bulgarian Second army,
started at once for the French head
quarters.
Naturally Berlin flew into a rage
and asserted Malinoff had acted
against the wishes of King Ferdinand,
but advices from Copenhagen said the
lremier's proposal was made in ac-
cordance with the orders Of leaders of
the ministerial bloc of the Bulgarian
parliament.
Opinions in all the allied capitals
was that no peace, and not even an
armistice would be granted Bulgaria
ulless she gives up her spoils, drives
out her German advisers, %surrenders
strategic points and disarms her
forces. In any case. it is regarded as
certain that Bulgaria is now out of
ii as a %belligerent, and that one great
result will be the isolation of Turkey.
1t was a bad week for the Huns and
their allies. From all the battle fronts
came reports of repulse, retreat, de-
feat or utter rOut and disaster, the CEN
trail powers always being the losers.
And to top 1t off, on Thursday the
French and American armies started
another big drive in the Champagne
and in the region to the east Of it,
which threatened the communication
lines In the rear Of the Hindenburg
defense system and might even result
in separating the German forces in
the west into two groups.
The drive, on a 4O-mile front, was
shared equally by the armies Of Per-
shing and Petain and all the way from
the Suippe sriver to the Mouse the
Germans were forced back, their bases
and railway centers at Somme-Py and
Challerange being in immediate peril.
The Americans made the swifteSt prog
ress along the Mouse valley, taking
many towns and thousands Of prison
ers. The Huns were withdrawing all
their forces except machine
At the time of writing the Yanks and
French were still advancing.
This new allied attack came log
ically after the Huns were driven
back to the Hindenburg line and was
we'll timed, for the enemy had concen-
trated his heavy guns and all the
troops he could spare further north to
defend st. Quentin and Laon against
the persistent assaults of the British
and French. For quite a distance east
ward from Reims the terrain Is so
opeo that the movement of the allies
Is favored, and any considerable adj
vance there would tend to cut the east
ward communication lines from Laon,
which city has been the pivot of the
entire German system from Reims to
Flanders.
The sensational news of the earlier
part OF the week came from Palestine
and Macedonia. In the Holy Land
General Allenby, by a sudden, swift
and s~killfully conducted attack,
smashed the Turkish forces between
the River Jordan and the Mediterra-
mean from the Jaffa-Jericho line clear
up beyond the Sea Of Galilee. Feint-