Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-10-04
European

""' ''+' - "'H'u ~ tllt fTtHCn gov
ernm"ni that high Bulgarian ofH.
Ger mas presented himself in behalf
OF HE commander OF the Bulgarian
army, asking The suspension Of arms
for forty'eight hours to permit the ar.
rival Of two authorized delegates from
he Bulgarian government.
With the welding OF The armies Of
the entente into compact whole an.
der command Of he inierallied war
council apparently has come the drst
break in the united front Of the cen.
tr,l powers Bulgaria, smaller OF The
leu onic allies, seems to have struck
her colors
Il Bulgaria lays down her arms, rnr.
key her armies shattered BY the coup
OF General Allenby in Palestine. vii
be GU of from her allies Military
observers believe the Ottoman en-.
pire. therefore, viii have no other
course left but to follow in the wake
OF Bulgaria.
Liberated territory in Palestine viii
be adm stored under the agreement
reached between he British, French
and Russian governments in 1916 Eng
land and France viii carry out The
scheme.
Discuss ng the general situation Of
lle allies Field Marshal Foch says:
The enemy is shaken up and shaken
down bar i stll holding gu, You
must nor think that We shah get 10
the Rhine Immediately We have pass
ed over he crest and are now going
down hill II We glther Impetus az We
20, Ike a rolling ball SO much he
better
Fed Marshal Foch says. The
British army is better than ever f,
fights better than ever The Americans
are splendid and are wonderfully gal.
liant IN he field The French Is the
sane old army that ii was n 1914 No
more is TO be said "
More than forty five thousand prs.
oners ana 265 guns have been taken
by the British in their successful Of.
fensiye IN Palestine This is the OF.
fetal announcement
The British army operating east Of
the Jordan in Palestine are in favor.
able position TO cut of the relreaiins
Turks north along The IIcdias railway
Enrlands army now numbers eight
million five hundred thousand men. and
her navy has in excess Of eigh. nil
lion tons From standing army u
100000 he land forces jumped TO *.
000,00 through the volunteer system
Although the British shipping losses
we're lower. there was slight increase
in lhe total allied and neutral shipping
losses due 20 enemy action and ma
rine risk in August over July
Philip Schedemann, majority So
cialiS leader in lie German reichstag.
saws We are suffering now because
We underialued our enemies re-
sard ne Brest Ltoysk treaty as an
obstacle 10 peace This aingmakng
business in the east must terminate.
so far rs Belgium /, concerned We
ought TO have spoken sooner. and df.
ferently The submarine warfare has
lined America against us"
There is evidently a change in from
OF he Centrist parts in Germany Herr
Groeher sharply criticised the govern.
ment in the reiehstag ana cited an or
der by the war office August II which
prohibited public speeches regarding
the reichstag peace resolution.
In Macedonia, the situation OF the
Bulgarians and Germans daily grows
more critical as the allied forces
steadily maintain their pressure
against them.
In Turkey the latest operations OF
the British and Arab ribesmen friend.
~ to the allied cause seemingly fore
east the complete destruction or cap
ture of the Ottoman troops in Pales'
tine on both sides of the River Jordan.
Half and Acre have been taken by
The allied troops.
In both Macedonia and Palestine the
entente allied forces are giving the al.
ready badly beaten Bulgarians, Ger
mans and Turks no rest.
The British and Greeks have ad
vanced on both sides of the Nardar
to a depth averaging about ten miles
over front of twenty miles.
In an address TO Austrian officers
at Briey, near Metz, Emperor Will
liam recalled to them that they had
before them on this front the Ameri-
cans, who had promised France to
give her Alsace-Lorraine and who
wished, he said to add big deeds to
their words.
On a hundred mile front in Mace
donia, in the region Of Nonastir, to /
Lake Dorian, the entire entente armies
have pressed further forward against
the demoralized Bulgarians and Ger
mans.
On the western front the British and
French are progressing successfully in
their enlightenment of st. Quentin The
French have seriously menaced the
Germans by the capture of Fort Ven
deuil, nine miles south-southeast OF
ST. Quentin.
Nazareth, where Jesus spent his boy
hood days, has been taken away from
he Turks.