The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-26
SERBIANS DEFEAT
The BULGARIANS
Army of Battered Little King
dom Takes 3, 900 Prison
ers and Many Cannon.
LULL BEFORE STORM IN WEST
Quiet Believed TO Be Prelude to An
other Allied Thrust-Germans
Still Burning Towns.

Washington, Sept. 18.-While the
Serbs and their French allies are
wrestling from the BuIgars some OF
the strongest positions they have held
in Macedonia for the last two years,
Marshal Foch's forces are nibbling
successfully at the German lines on
the western front in the face of more
determined resistance
Pretentious Thrust In East.
The Near East furnished the most
sensational news of the day, however.
The offensive which has been launched
there seems not only the most sue
cessful, but the most pretentious in
many months. 1t appears probable
that a further advance by the Franco
Serbian troops will necessitste the re-
call OF the Bulgarian div ions that
have been loaned to Emperor William
to bolster the Teuton resistance in
France and Flanders.
Take 5000 Prisoners.
An official Serbian report declares
that the reconstructed army of the bat
tered, but not beaten, little kingdom
has taken not only 5000 prisoners, but
an important park of cannon. The
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clare the attack has been checked to
the north of Gradeshitsa. There is
nothing to indicate, however, that the
advance of the Serbs and French has
been definitely held up.
A LuII in the West.
The lull in the fighting in the West
is regarded by military critics as
merely the prelude to further heavy
blows at the foe by the American,
British and French armies.
British Move Forward.
The British advanced their lines
slightly at several points. They are
making steady progress in the invest
ment of ST. Quentin, a difficult task
even under most favorable conditions.
French EncireIe ST. Gobain Forest
General Petain's veterans are forg-
ing ahead slowly but surely in their
grim and desperate struggle for the
st. Gobain Forest, which the Germans
have been ordered to hold at all costs
Not only is the position a natural
citadel, but the Teutons have fortified
it in every way their ingenuity could
devise. Notwithstanding the diff
Guilty of their task, the French are
moving on, taking prisoners as they
go.
Quiet On American Front.
On the American front the last
twenty-four hours have been the quiet
est since General Pershing's command
launched its irresistible drive against
the ST. MihieI salient There are in
dications that the Germans intend to
retire behind the Hindenburg line in
this sector. They are burning villages
along the Moselle and in other Sec
lions. This procedure usually is a
preliminary to a retreat.
Artillery Active in Vosges.
With the American Army in the
Vosges, Sept. 17.-ArtilIery activity
of an intensity to suggest a possible
attack or an expected attack, occurred
in the Vosges today. It was accom-
panied by an extraordinary amount of
signaling. Enemy airplanes were I'M
usually active, ten flew over st. Die
and twenty over Gerardmer.
Washington, Sept. 17.-American
and German patrols are doing the ma
jor part of the work on the Lorraine
front, but there are reports of a pos
sible great attack by one side or the
other in the Vosges. In that noun
famous territory the artillery fire has
developed great intensity and hostile
airplanes have been unusually active
Hun Filters Active Again.
All reports indicate marked in
crease in the work of the airplanes
along all the fronts The Germans,
who quite recently appeared to lack
adequate air forces have now sent
augmented forces into the air and
there have been numerous engage
ments.
Serbs Win a Victory.
Meanwhile in the various theaters
of the war the fighting is going on
steadily and with added impetus in
Macedonia, where the newly reconsti-
tuted Serbian army, cooperating with
French forces, have stormed three
strongly fortified positions and occu-
pied Vetrenik, Dobropolje and SokaI,
considered the most important part
of the Macedonian front.
Fifteen hundred prisoners together
with a large number. OF guns and
great quantity OF material were cap
tured by the Franco-Serbian troops.
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