The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-10-10
AUSTRIA OFFERS
PEACE PLAN N0.2
HAIG's MEN SMASH AHEAD IN
THRUST BETWEEN ST oUEN-
TIN AND CAMBRIA.
YANkS GAIN TWO MILES
BLOW STRUCK ON scARPE RIVER
FOE RETREAT CONTINUES AS
ALLIES REACH WAvRiN.
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Paris, Oct. 5.-King Ferdinand of
Bulgaria Is reported to have abdicated
in favor OF Crown Prince Boris. who
has already assumed power, according
to Basel dispatch to the Havas
agency quoting advices from Vienna.
Reports are to the effect that Aus
tria- Hungary again is seeking peace,
having invited Holland to request the
belligerents to participate in negotia-
tions. The hungarian premier. who
has arrived in Vienna with a number
of Hungarian statesmen. is quoted as
saying that the Hungarians again are
laboring untiringly in the interests of
peace. and we are already negotiat-
ing"
Nowhere are the armies of the Teu-
tonic allies being permitted to rest. On
the fronts in Flanders. France, lta.y,
Albania and Turkey the enemy still
continues to lose ground, or is being
compelled to throw strong reinforce
ments into his battle line to hold back
Lis successors.
In Belgian Flanders the Belgians.
British and French troops are still
driving forward. although their speed
has been somewhet lessened by reason
of the bad condition of the ground
The enemy is swiftly evacuating
the salient between Armentieres and
Lens, and the British now are stand
ing only scant six miles southwest
of Lille over a front of about four
miles between Wabrin and Equing-
hem. at the former place having
gained position astride the Lens
Lille railroad.
Notwithstanding violent counter at.
tacks and line strengthened by
fresh reserves. the British between
st. Quentin and Cambria have mate
rally pressed eastward from the re-
gion of lie Cateiet. and to the moth
have improved their positions in Cam
brai so well that this important town
must soon fall.
Taken all in all. the situation CT the
Germans in the region seems to be
critical and the crisis at hand. Far
to the rear aerial observers report
the roads congested with yetreating
troops. who are being harassed by
the machine gun fire of the airmen.
AS in Flanders. fires are everywhere
to be seen. and 1t is evident that the
enemy, realizing that he must give
further ground. is vigorously apply
ing the torch.
Around Rheims the French have
further extended their gains north
and northwest of the cathedral city.
where they are all along the Aisne ca
nal To the east In Champagne. Amer
lean forces are fighting with the
French between the Suippe river and
the Argonne forest. in addition to
holding their original battle line in
side and east OF the Argonne forest.
/ simultaneously the French have ad-
vanced their front eastward around
Challerange and gained better posi-
tions for their. operations up the rail
way toward Vouxiers.
I The latest reports are that the
Americans have advanced almost two
miles in the forest. and on the east,
ern side of the great wood arc slow
| ly pressing northward.
/ In the mountain region in northern
Italy the Italians on several sectors
have attacked and defeated the Aus
'rians. while in Albania the Austro-
Hungarians are in fast retreat before
TIE Italian armies.
T In Palestine the Turks have been
driven far beyond Damascus with the
British still on their heels harrying
| them