The Arvada enterprise., 1918-10-24
HUNS LOSE FIGHT
| 0NBELG|AN COAST
zEEsRueeE AND PORT OF
eRUGEs FALL As BRITISH
CAPTURE TURcolNo.
FRENCH CROSS AIsNE
ALLIES TAKE oouAi, osTENo
AND LILLE As ENEMY FLEES
TOWARD ANTWERP.
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London. Oct. 21.-British troop,
crossed the Selle river, and captured
1000 prisoners. Victory crowns the
allied arms on every battle front.
Northern Belgium IL being rapid,
cleared Of the enemy by British and
Belgian forces. Belgians have occu.
pied zeebrugge and Meysty. have
crossed the Ghent-Bruges canal and
on their left have reached the Dutch
frontier. where $4,000 Germans. cut off
from their retreat are reported to have
withdraw into Holland, where they
were interned.
Basel. Oct. 19-BaroA Burian, the
Austrian premier. has resigned, 70.
cording to Vienna newspapers.
Copenhagen, Oct. 19.-The Cxechs
are masters in Prague, according to a
Berlin dispatch to the Berlingske tt.
dende. Czech money is in circulation
and the Czech flag waves over Hrad-
schin castle.
The Belgian coast again Is Belgian.
Germany's dream of an invasion Of
England across the North sea from
Calais II ended. Belgian Flanders Ia
fast being evacuated by the enemy.
and this line from the Belgian from.
tier to the Mouse river gradually ID
giving way under the attacks Of the
British. French and American armies
which are demanding to be served
with victory.
A haven Of safety in . shorter and
more compact line 10 being sought by
the Germans in order to escape an
Inhalation by their foes. Everywhers
they are being whipped. But seem.
ingly they are still far from defeat.
In Belgium the enemy is giving
ground hastily in order to bring his
armies safely out of the trap which
menaces them. ..a
Zeebrugge. Germany's second great
submarine base ON the North sea. has
gone the way Of Ostehd. The flag Of
Belgium once moro flies over It. To
the south. Bruges has been evacuated
and Turcoing. Roubaix and other
towns have been delivered. Out Of
the great sack between the North sea
and the Lys river the enemy ID fleeing
fast in an endeavor to prevent cap
ture or internment in Holland.
His hope 10 that he will be able to
reach Antwerp and there reconstitute
his line from the Dutch frontier
through Antwerp and Namur to some
point in the south. probably Sedan OF
Nets, and stabilize It, for the moment
at least. to the Swiss frontier.
In France. east Of Lille to Cambria.
the British slowly but surely are press.
ing forward, despite supreme efforts Of
the enemy to hold them. plotting out
the big salient which hes Journal ~
It's northern and Valenciennes - it,
southern enemy.held bases.
To assure the collapse Of this sal
lent. Field Marshal Haig. within
whose forces are brigaded men from
the United States. ID driving hard
along the Bohain.le-C atsau fort In q
maneuver which 10 meeting with sec.
cess and throwing valenciennes into q
dangerous pocket
To the south. in the sack between
the Disc 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.
likewise In Champagne, the Ger
mans are offering strong resistance
against the French and Americans In
their attempts to drive northward to
ward Mexieres and Sedan. The French
nevertheless have been able to cross
the Aisne river near vousiers and thus
have made more secure the positions
OF the Franco-Americau forces In the
valley Of the Aire at Grand Pre-.
To the east the Americans on both
sides OF the Mouse river are slowly
going forward. Between the grea,
wooded bastion and the Mouse picked
troops have been chosen To fend the
blow northward toward Sedan. All
the ground that 10 being won 10 beina
valiantiy defended to the last.
In the Macedonian theatsr the
Greeks are now In full posssssioa oil
Greek Macedonia. Albania % fast b
Ing cleared Of the enemy and In Ser
blu the Teutonic allied forces have
been driven thirty miles north OF Nish
In Syria the victorious forces Of Gen
eral Allenby now are meeting Will