The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-10-19
PRESIDENT WILSON ANSWERS
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY,T ,TELLSHER
WEEKLY WAR REVIEW
(Rev. Morrison Bethea.)

The past week has been one of
substantial progress b ythe Allies in
every field of operations
In the Holy Land, Gen. Allenby
has advanced more than fifty-five
miles on hundred mile front. Only
three more weeks such progress will
bring him to Aleppo, city of quar-
ter of million inhabitants, which
is situated on the Berlin Bagdad
railway. The occupation of this city
would cut the only line of commu-
nication supplying the Turkish
troops operating in front of the
British Mesopotamian forces.
In Serbia the Allies have taken
Nish, the ancient capital, cut the
only direct line connecting Turkey
with Germany, have captured the
great naval base of DURANGO, on the
Adriatic and have advanced more
than thirty miles on a hundred and
fifty mile front. Two more weeks
Of the same rate Of progress and
Roumania will be entered and the
great Allied army will be knocking
at the back door of Austria. And
where can that sorely tried country
find the million or more troops who
will be needed to prevent the threat
ened invasion.
On the Western front, the progress
of the allies has been greater than
any week since the great offensive
began. Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing
Douai Bruges Ostend Zebrugge all
great and important centers have
been entered and freed from the
power fthe invader. Lille is a city
Of over two hundred thousand inhab-
itants and the combined population
Of all liberated cities is we'll above
half million. Thousands of the
inhabitants have been murdered
tens of thousands have perished
from hunger and hardship, and more
than hundred thousand have been
driven into slavery into Germany and
the occupied portions of France and
Belgium. But just at the last the
Hun has seen light. President
Wilson's note, coupled with the pos
tive assurance of the French that re-
prisals were to be made for every
city wantonly destroyed, has made
the Hun leace these lately liberated
cities practically untouched.
The occupation of the Belgian
coast, removes the submarine me-
mace three hundred miles further
from the British ports, and the dan
ger of the mine fields in the North
Sea and the great shortening of the
coast line to be watched will result
in decreasing the U-boat menace by
more than half.
The cunningly contrived and care
fully timed peace Offensive" of the
Central Powers which was to ac-
complish by diplomacy what their
armies had failed to accomplish by
force, namely the dividing of the
Allies, has been met and handled
by the President so skilfully that 1t
has been turned against its authors
and they find themselves "hoist on
their own petard" and may be COM
PEELED to seek honestly for peace.
There are only two great railroad
systems from Germany into the oc-
cupied portions of France and Bel
GUM. One of these passes along
tnear the Dutch border and the 9th.
er is only eighteen miles north OF
, Gen. ershing. The advance Of the
Belgian armies is threatening one
of these lines, and an advance by
Gen. Pershing. The advance of the
Either Of these events would spell
disaster.
We may be therefore very sure
that the Germans will hold these
points with the best and finest
troops that they have and when they
find that they can hold them nc
longer will accept peace on any
terms that they can get.