The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1918-11-02
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TOWARD ANTWERP.
wsa.sr. h.~spapcr Union New, Service.
Basel. Oct. 1s.-Baron Burian. he
Austrian premier. has resigned. -
cording 10 Vienna newspaper.
Copenhagen, Oct. iy.-Ths Czeehs
are musterx In Prague. according 70 .
Berlin dispatch TO The BerIIngske II.
dende. Czech money 10 In circulation
and tie Czech nag waves over ArAd-
sGhin castle.
Germany's dream Of an invasion Of
England across the North sea from
Calais 10 ended. Belgian Flanders IL
fast bsinx evacuated by the enemy. :
and this line from the Belgian IRON
tier 10 the Mouse river gradually Is
giving way under the attacks Of the
British, French and American armies
which are damxndinE To bu served
with victory.
A haven Of safety IN = shorter and
more compact line - being sought By
the Germans In order 70 escape an
inhalation by their foes. Everywhere
they are being whipped. But SEEM
inxiy they are still far from defeat.
In Belgium the enemy Is sivLas
ground hastily In order TO hiring his
armies safely out Of the trap which
msnaces them.
Zesbrugge. 0ermaAy's sncond great
submarine base on the North sea. has
gone the way Of Ostend. The flag Of
Belgium once more flies over It. To
the south, Brugss has been evacuated
and Turcolng, Roubaix and other
towns have been delivered. Out OF
the great sack between the North sea
and the Lys river the enemy 10 fleeing
fast In an endeavor to prevent cap
turs or internment in Holland.
His hope Is that he will be able to
reach Antwerp and there reconstituts
his line from the Dutch frontier
through Antwerp and Namur to some
point in the youth. probably Sedan or
Nets, and stabilize 1t. for the moment
At least, to the Swiss frontier.
In France, east Of Lille to Cambria.
tho British slowly but surely are press
ING forward, despite supreme efforts Of
the enemy TO bold them, plotting out
the big salient which hes Tournai -
it, northern and Valenciennes ~ Its
southern enemy.held bases.
To assure the collapse Of this sal
lent, Field Marshal Hsig. within
whose forces are brigaded men from
the United States, y driving hard
along the BohainleC ateau fort In .
mansuver which ID meeting with sue
cess and throwing vaienciennes Into .
dangerous pocket. -
To the south. in the sack between
the Oiss and the Serre rivers, north
Of Laon, the Germans slowly are with
drawing toward Hirson. with the en-.
envy impeding the allies. progress with
strong rear guards.
Likswise in Champagne, the Ger.
mans are offering strong resistance
against the French and Americans In
their attempts to drive northward to
ward Mesieres and Sedan. The French
nevertheless have been able to cross
the Aisne river near vouziers and thus
have made more secure the positions
Of the Franco-American forces In the
valley Of the Airs at Grand Pre-.
To the east the Americans on both
sides Of the Msuse river are slowly
going forward. Between the great
wooded bastion and the Meuse picked
troops have been chosen to fond the
blow northward toward Sedan. All
the ground that IL being won il being
valiantly defended to the last.
In the Macedonian theater the
Greeks are now In fall possession Of
Greek Macedonia. Albania Il fast b.
ing cleared Of the spemy and in Ser
bia the Teutonic allied forces have
been driven thirty miles north OF Nish.
In Syria the victoricrs forces Of Cen
erai Allenby now sic meeting with
scant resistance.
Amsterdam.-The Hande!sblad pub
fishes with reserve report that the
German admiralty has issued wireless
Instructions to all submarines 10 re-
turn to their bases. Dispatches from
Berlin Indicate strong anti-Wilson
tendency, not only In military quar-
ters but also In those which have f.
voFed peace.