The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-23

United Press
War Summary
1.512th dav of the war.

SOlil TSitWdyo bHSu WIllSu bur
earians on the front Of Monastir to
Lake Doiran depend for supplies.
Tho Bulgarian armies occupying
Greece thus have been virtually sepa-
rated.
The allies have made a total ad-
vance Of more than forty miles.
Palestine front-The Turkish army
way and the Mediterranean has been
and Arabian forces. British cavalry
from the original front.
More than $4,000 Turks and 26o
guns have been captured.
captured the village and fort of Ven
deuiI, on the west bank of the Oise
in their encircIina movement south
made slight advances between Cam
brai and ST. Quentin, and along the
Arras-Douai highway east of Cav
relle.
Metz front-Three successful raids
terday between Haumont and the
"SoVhSs SSNCbo1 PIISOuSiS "StC IcNSh
and casualties inflicted.
The great wedge driven Into the
Bulgarian lines between Monastir and
Lake Dolran has already virtually
separated their armies In southern
Serbia and northeastern Greece. Both
the railway supplying the RuIsars In
the Lake Doiran and the German
k,,fI III
cut. The Serbian war office reports
country Is feeling the effects of this
operation enormously"
The allied advance up to Saturday
had reached depth of more than
forty miles between the Vardar and
the eastern reach Of the cerna.
No incursion has yet been reported
into Bulgarian territory, but the al
lies are now within five miles Of the
Of Lake Doiran, and their lines be-
river approach to within less than
border at one point
Tho latest reports from Palestine
Indicate that the entire Turkish army
"liSH oSSdP1So luC viz bGiVCCI IIiS
Jordan river and the Mediterranean
British have advanced more than
sixty miles from their original line,
1900 Turks and 12O guns.
The British and Germans are still
for possession Of the Hin
denburg line between cambrai and
st. Quentin with the former slowly
H.,
Farther north the British made pro.
eress on front of nearly mile east
of GavrelIe, on the main Arras-Doual
highway.
[By J. W. T. Mason, United Press
War Expert
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-General AL
lenby's remarkable advance through
the plains OF Sharon to Nazareth has
covered over fifty miles in two days
fighting, which is the record for the
present war. The British are now
within seventy-fiye miles Of Damas-
Gus, the capture of which is certain if
the present disintegration OF the Tur-
ldsh forces continues.
Once at Damascus, General Allenby
can begin to make plans for uniting
his own forces with the British army
in Mesopotamia which is working it's
way northwestward along the Euph-
rates. This army has as its objective
the capture of Aleppo, where the Con-
railway joins the Bagdad
and the Damascus lines.
From Damascus, General Allenby,
too, will advance toward Aleppo. 1t
will be possible for him to get in touch
with the British Mesopatamfan opera
tions Immediately at Damascus, by
the use Of cavalry. The Arabian des-
ert, which now separates General AL
lenby's forces from the Mesopatam-
ian expedition, loses it's density north
of Damascus, permitting the two Brit
ish armies to unite under a single
strategic direction for the approach to
Aleppo General Allenby Is now less
than 300 miles from A1epps AID nas
covered half the distance from Suez to
that major Turkish railway center.
The extraordinary speed of General
Allenbys advance from Jaffa to Naz-
areth last week indicates that the
second half of the journey will M =.
OF all proportion to the first in rapid
ity of accomplishment.
With the British armies in poses
sion of Aleppo the nearby port of
in possession of the al
lies, troops could easily be landed
there, ready to move along the Alep-
po railway leading across Asia Minor
into Constantinople. The distance to
be covered is about 500 miles. This
sounds like a stupendous undertaking,
but with demoralized Turkish army
In opposition, the possibility of sue
~
of so gigantic an accomplishment
would work havoc with the morale OF
the panIGermans.
Under the new high rates, sleeping
car husineSe on most of tho 1-aiIrOa Is