Mexico Missouri message., 1918-10-24
Kaiser's Back Wall Has Fallen
and His Front Wall Is
CrumbIing Fast.
AINDENDURG Line SMASHED
Bulgaria Surrenders Internationally
and Turkey Is WobbIing-St. Quen-
tin and Damascus Captured
Huns Preparing To Get
Out of Belgium.
BY EDWARD w. PIcKARD

The kaiser put his back to 4 wall in
the vain effort to check the allies
on the western front, and the wall
collapsed. Bulgaria surrendered, prac-
tically unconditionally Turkey at
once put out peace feelers; Austria
Hungary cried for cessation of the
war, and the Ukrainians rose in re-
volt against the Huns.
Meanwhile the allies kept up their
ceaseless hammering at the kaiser's
front wall-the Hindenburg line-and
by smashing through II at many
points proved it was not the impreg-
nable system of defense that the Ger
mans had supposed 1t to be. From the
sea to Verdun the battle blazed day
and night and the official reports
showed an almost unbroken series of
victories for the allies. The Belgian
army, assisted by British troops and,
unexpectedly, by French army,
jumped into the fray at the beginning
Of the week. and taking Dixmude and
the important Wytschaete ridge, ad-
vanced swiftly as far as Roulers
Thereupon the Huns began making
preparations that indicated complete
| withdrawal from Belgium. North and
| south of La Bassee canal they were
in full fight, with the British close on
their heels, and as Haig's men ap-
preached Lille the enemy began the
evacuation of that city, the German
commander requlsitloning all means
Of transportation to remove his plum
der. Investing Roulers, the allies gain
ed control of the railroad to the Ger
man submarine bases at Ostend. and
| iLeebruggee and it was reported the
Zoe was removing his heavy guns from
'he Belgian coast and that the gov
'rnOr general of Belgium had in
'ltructed the provincial governors to
lend all their archives at once to Brus-
Cels.
Armentieres and Lens were aban-
'Dned by the Huns Tuesday night.
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In the attack on Cambria the Brit
lsh, with whom an American contin-
| Gent was fighting, met with desperate
resistance and here and there suffer-
ed local reverse, but they could not
lie long checked and pushed ahead
with dogged determination until they
had the city at their mercy. The Huns
burned vast quantities of stores in
their preparations for withdrawal
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Next to the south comes the ST
| Quentin sector, and there the French
under General Debeney won a great
victory, capturing the city after tre-
mendous fighting, which was fiercest in
and about the st. Quentin canal. This
place was one of the keystones of the
Hindenburg line and its capture as
| sured the retirement of the Germans
on wide front. Immediately north of
st. Quentin the British were engaged
by enemy reserves OF storming troops
and the fighting was furious. But the
British succeeded in breaking through
the German line on the Beauvoir- -Wian.
court front and created a salient that
greatly helped IN the capture of st
Quentin by the French.
Between the Disc Mt La Irere and
the Aisne the French pushed on to
ward Laon and succeeded in passing
beyond the elaborate system of water
ways that comprised the chief defense
Of the enemy and reaching open coun
try where the tanks could operate t6
advantage. North Of 1elms Foch'i
troops drove the Huns back to the AisnC
and the Alsne-Marne canal, clearing
lthe country north of the Yesle and re
leasing number of towns. They alsC
Snined the entire St ThIerry massIR.