The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-10-17

or l1In1C. Al the same ClA11S Tic pres"
ident has left open the door to peace.
European
A large number of American troops
have been lost as the result of the
sinking of the transport OtrantO in
the North channel between the Scot
fish and Irish coasts in collision
with the steamer Kashmir, says dis
patch from "a British Port" The
Otranto after the collision was dashed
to pieces on the rocks off the south
Scottish Coast with a probable loss
of 372 American soldiers.
Serbian troops after capturing Les
kovatz have advanced and reached a
line ten miles to the north of that
towns More than three thousand pris-
oners were taken.
Belgian authorities have delivered
orders to Belgian residents in Eng
land directing them to return to their
native land.
It is believed that 600 lives were
lost in the sinking Of the mail steamer
Leinster by a torpedo in the Irish sea.
About one hundred and fifty persons
only were saved.
On the wings of necessity the Ger
mans are flying eastward from their
old battle positions from DOuai to La
Fere and northward from La Fere to
the Meuse river. Their flight is to-
ward some haven of safety from the
talons of the allied hawks.
The famous Chemin-des-Dames,
the ridge which the Germans had be-
lieved to be an insuperable barrier to
an advance northward from scissors,
is being evacuated.
Along the Mouse river the French
and American troops are pushing fur
Their northward.
Douai is now completely outfanked
by the latest operations of the Brit
ish.
A revolt has broken out in Bruges,
Belgium, the populace having arisen
against the attempts of the Germans
to deport the civilians, according to
dispatch from Amsterdam.
Throughout Flanders the roads are
encountered with cattle, horses and
pigs which are being sent to Ger
many.
Field Marshal Mackensen has ar
rived in Old Serbia not to aid the Bull
garians, but to save the remnants of
the Austro-G German forces which the
allies are closely following toward the
Danube.
The Austrians are evacuating Bel
grade and the whole Serbian popula-
ton is taking revenge. Even women
with rifles are driving out their for
mer oppressors. The women have en-
dured so much, it is impossible to re-
strain them.
Alexander Feodorovich Trepoff, for
mer Russian premier, has been shot.
He was .ffty-six years old. From his
childhood he was destined for the
army and that was his profession un-
til 27, when he went into the ministry
of the interior.
In diplomatic circles in Great Brit
ain President Wilson's reply to the
peace proposals of Prince Macmillan,
German imperial chancellor, is regard.
ed as clever and logical.
Talaat Pasha, the Turkish premier,
has resigned and has been succeeded
by Tewfik Pasha, former premier and
eX-ambassador at London. Enver
Pasha, the minister of war; also has
resigned.
Former King Ferdinand of Bulgaria,
with a retinue Of servants, and Prince
Cyril, his second son, two Bulgarian
generals and a large suite, has gone
to his estate in lower Austria, at Err
enthal '--
The Hindenburg line no longer bars
the path of the allies. The definite
rupture of it was achieved on the first
day of the fighting in the new develop
ment toward the north of the great
battle from the Escaut to the Meuse.
The extraordinary maze of defenses
in some places IL miles in depth, be-
tween Cambria and st. Quentin have
been stormed and taken by the Anglo
Saxon forces.
The allies are in the open country
on the Cambrai-St. Quentin front and
are threatening Bohain, an important
junction of roads and railways, the
Americans having pushed within two
miles of that place.
South of st. Quentin the French
over a wide front have crossed tho
Disc river.
The entente allied forces everv-
where are defeating the armies of the
Teutonic allies. In France they are
fast carrying forward maneuvers that
are resulting in the enemy's line Civ
ing way from the region of Cambrai
and Verdun.