The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-10-25
BELGIAN SEACOAST
CLEARED OF HUNS
zEE6RUGGE, GREAT TEUT SUB
MARINE BASE, FALLS
TO ALLIES
HUNS BESTED EVERYWHERE
German Dream Of Invading England
Via Calais Goes GIimmering-Huns
to Make Another Stand
twar Review for October 100

tWar Review for October 100
The Belgian coast again IL Belgian
Germanys dream of an invasion Of
England across the North sea from
Calais IL ended.
Belgian Flanders Is fast being evac
uated by the enemy and his line from
the Belgian front to the Mouse river
gradually ~ giving way under the at
tacks Of the British, French and Amer
he served with victory
A haven OF safety In 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
~ 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 menaccs
them. but from the French frontier to
the Mouse river he still Is fighting
desperately To hold back the lower jaw
of the great French pincer from clos
Ing In II great converging movement
and trapping In It's 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
a.
gone the way of Ostcnd. The flag of
Belgium once more flies over 1t. To
the south. Bruges has been evacuated,
and Turcolng, Ronbnix 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 lnternment In Holland. His
hope Is that he viii be able To reach |
Antwerp and there reconstitute his
line from the Dutch frontier through |
Antwerp and Namur Ia some point In |
the south, probably Sedan or Metz, |
and stabilize II, for the moment ut
least, to the Swiss border.
In France. east of Lille to Cambrai, |
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 |
Tournai rs Its north and Valeneiennes |
Its southern enemy held bases. TO as
sure the collapse of this salient Field |
Marshal HaIg, with whose forces are
brigaded men from the United States |
IL driving hard along the BohainLe
cateau front In II maneuvevr which Is
meeting with success and throwing |
Nalenelennes into II dangerous pocket |
Strong Rear Guard Actions.
To the south, In the sack between |
the Disc and the Serre rivers north |
Of Laon, the Germans are slowly with.
drawing to Hirson. with the enemy Inn |
pedng 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 aud Sedan. The |
French. nevertheless, have been able |
To cross the Alsne river near Vouziers |
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 |
forward. Between the great wooded |
hasiion and the Mouse picked troops |
have been chosen to fena the blow |
northward toward Sedan. All the
ground that Is being Won Is being vail.
antly defended 10 the last.
In the Macedonian theater the |
Greeks are now In full possession of |
Greek Macedonia Albania Is fast he.
the Teutonic allied forces have been
driven 30 miles north of NIsh. In
Syria the victorious forces of General |
Allenby now are meeting with scunt
resistance.
Hun Orgies stop9
The Germans. at least for the mo.
ment. seem 10 have stopped their
orgies of burning and destroying, part.
~ through fear of what the allied
troops may have n chance 10 do he.
fore long, Recent reports say no fires
of any consequence have been oh.
served except ut places close To the
line.
How many thousands of civilians
have been delivered FROM the Germans
during the past three days is uncer,
tain, but the number runs well Int
the thousands.
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