Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-03
NEWS REVIEW OF
THElCREAT War.
French and Americans Open New
Offensive Against the Huns
in Champagne.
TURKISH ARMIES DESTROYED
Splendid Success Won by General Al.
lenby in Paiestine-Rout Of Bull
garians in Macedonia increases--
Their Country is invaded.
BY EDWARD w. P,ckARo.

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II was bad week for the Huns and
their allies From all the battle fronts
came reports of repulse, retreat, de-
feat or utter rolltand disaster, the cen
traI powers always being the losers.
And to top it Off, on Thursday the
French and American armies started
anoilicr big drive in the Champagne
and in the region to thc east OF ii.
which threatened the communication
lines in the rear of the Hindenburg
defense system and might even result
In separating the German forces in
the west into two groups.
The drive. on 40-mile front was
shared equally by the armies of Per-
shing and Petain und all the way from
the Suippe river to the Meuse the
Germans were forced back, their bases
and railway centers ut Somme-Py and
Challerange being III immediate peril.
The Americans made the swiftest prog
ress along the Meuse valley, taking
many towns and thousands of prison
ers. The Huns were withdrawing all
their forces except machine gunners.
At the time Of writing the Yanks and
French were still advancing.
This new allied attack came log
icnlly after the Huns were driven
back TO the Hindenburg line and was
well timed, for the enemy had concen-
trated his heavy guns and all the
troops he could spare further north to
defend ST. Quentin and Laon against
1thc persistent assaults of the British
and French. For quite distance east
ward from ReilnS the terrain is so
open that the movement of the allies
Is favored, and any considerable ad-
vance there would tend to cut the eSst-
ward communication lines from LaOn,
which city has been the pivot of the
entire German system from Reims to
Flanders
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The sensational news of the earlier
part of the week came from Palestine
and Macedonia. lip the Holy Land
General Allenby, by Il sudden, swift
nnd skillfully conducted attack.
smashed the Turkisl, forces between
the River Jordan and the Mediterra-
ne;:n from the Jaffa-.JerifliO line clear
up beyond the Sea OF Galilee Feint-
ing with his right in an attack direct
ed toward AfIile, In the hill region of
Salnaria, he delivered his main blow
with his left, which moved swiftly up
the coastal plain, occupying in turn
Caesarea. Hiiifa and Mere This force
then quickly shifted its course toward
the northeast. turning the highlands
Of Sanlalia and compelling the Turks
to make I, precipitate and perilous re-
treai. In fact the enemy was routed
and made little effort TO rally and
check uisG victorious progress Of the
British. AlleGby's men drove forward
Will amazing rapidity, capturing the
railway running from Haifa through
Afnle and Nahlus toward Jerusalem
and occupying Nazareth, the home of
Jesus.
Meanwhile the Arabs of Hedjaz
were moving northward ulong the hills
east Of the Jordan. driving the Turks
before them and threatening to sever
their line Of retrent to Damascus.
Still further north another force Of
tribesnen ra!de-l the railway juno
tion Of Derai, and destroyed the rail-
way there.
Probably 1900 prisoners We're taken
by the British In Palestine and 1t
seemed likely that almost the entire
Turkish force caught in the trap
would be captured or destroyed. The
seventh and eighth Turkish armies
were virtually annihilated. There Is
added satisfaction In the fact that III.