Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-09-25
Center Having Been Smash
ed, Great Turning Move
ment 10 Begun
ALLIED FORCES
SPREAD FANI.IKE
Soldiers on Both Wings Of Enemy
Lines Threatened With Decisive De-
feat-PIisht Of eulsarians on West
Especially Serious =. Campaign
Planned and lnausurated Speedily
and Bulsars Are Taken by Surprise.

Allied armies which have smash.
ed the center Of the enemy lines in
Macedonia now have begun a
turning movement which may bring
a general rstrsat over the entire
front from the Adriatie to the
Aegean sea.
Having captured PriIsp and hav.
ing advanced far into the upper
valley Of the vardar, the allied
forces are reported 70 be spreading
out like the ribs Of = FAM, On the
right the Ssrbians and Frsneh are
moving toward the northeast and
have reached points which carry
district threat. to. the great 1uI.
garian stronghold Of Strumnitza.
On the left the Serbians are NOV.
ing rapidly toward the mountains
that divide Serbia from Albania
and seem o have cut of the re-
treat Of the enemy forces which
were caught around Monastir by
the collapse Of the line eastward
from that city.
otrumnitxa stands as the outpost
~ Dulsaria in Macedonia. Il 10
- Sesi<abls sfertrssss and 10 adsan-
,tsSe1t1sly s;tYstsd in the midst o.
kj1k hills. The 0eitish assd Greek
afAsiss have advanced acsund Lake
0oian and are pursuing che Dut.
garians along the Rad toward
Strunnnitxa, but .that place, il
ssems probabIs, soon will be out
nxnked by the peosrsss Of the allied
armies 70 the northwest.
The plight Of the 6ulsarians on
the western side Of the battle zone
appears to be serious. ThSy are
forced to retire thru the mountains
Of Albania, whore they may join
forces with Austrians who have
been fighting for weeks against
strong Italian and Freneh forces.
But they must pass over an almost
roadIess eSuntry and must reckon
with the hostility Of the hill tribes.
Few details Of the situation in
Palestine have developed in the
past two days. Only brief formal
official statements tell Of the capt
urs Of Acre and Haifa and Of the
further advance Of General Allen
by-'s victorious, troops. II appears,
however, that the Turkish forces
which sueessdsd in reaching the
eastern side Of the Jordan Vat
Icy ars isolatsd and in danger Of
capture. A dispateh from Mabuius
on Monday by British eorrss-
respondent ssys that two Turkish
armies have been destroyed.
Apparently the allies in Mace
donia have completed the splitting
apart Of the German eulgar rian
Gorces east and west Of the vardar.
The Serbians are pressing toward
veieS, wi,ioi, the enemy apparently
will not be able, to hold, a. other
allied forces ars marching north
ward in that direction from PriIep.
&Standing ON the heights along
the Bulgarian frontier, east Of the
vardar, south Of pemirkapu pass,
the suloarians are Offering stiff re-,
sistanee to allied attempts TO ad-
vance. North of the pass the ems
envy is retiring on veies and Il
would appear that this column has
s,Irth.r :onth. thu. .nI;tt;nn the an /.
emv r. two.
The auluarians west Of the Var. {
dar probably are those who He'd be-
fore the French, Greeks and British
around Lake poiran,
II is believed in Paris the allies
viii press % the vardar 70 Uskubs
- a.
flank Dulnars west Of Strumnitxa
rather than attempt to get over tho
hills on the southern frontier. In
tho region of Prilsp the snemy 10
being forced toward the Albanian