The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-27
WAR SUMMARY
CBy the Associated Press )

American troops have taken over a Eew sector in France and in conjunc- ton with the French have forced the Germans on the defensive on still another battle front
 The gauge of battle has been thrown down on a forty mile front extending from the Suippe river in Champagne fifteen miles east of Rheims, east ward through the Argonne forest to the Mouse river northwest of Verdun
 In the first stages Of the battle the allied lines were pushed forward for material gains-that portion immedi- ately northwest of Nerdun held by the Americans to a depth of from five to six miles and that of the French 10 he west nearly four miles at certain points
 Under the terrific bombardmont preceding the commencement Of the battle the Germans hurriedly quit numerous positions, and into these the Americans and French went un- impeded Al last accounts the allied attack was progressing favorably.
 Many French villages and German ,trorg points had been captured
 British troops have invaded Bull earia from the north of Lake Doiran in Macedonia, making another epoch in tho history of the war. Aside from morale effect of the penetration of the mountainous country of King Ferdinand tho maneuvel is likely to nrove of great stratesetic value once the lstrumitze river valley leading to- ward the Sofia Seres railway is reached
 Meantime days of diversity pursue the Bulsarians in southern Serbia and Palestine and the British and French are keeping up their maneu- vers which gradually are bringing the important town of St Quentin into their hands
 In Serbia the Serbs. Italians. Greeks and British are still threatening the enemy forces with disaster by reason Of their rapid advance and tho state oi confusion into which the Bulgar- ians and Germans have been thrown by the shock of the offensive,
 Likewise the Turks in Palestine are Icing sadly harrassed by the forces of the British General Allenby and the tribesmen of the King of the
 Hediah and are almost surrounded cast of the Jordan The Turks are frantically endeayoring to extricate themselves from the convergins forces.
 From the cast and south the British are driving the Ottomans northward. and coming south to meet the enemy and to crush him between the two allied lines are the Arabs. Seemingly with all the crossings of the Jordan now in allied hands the Turkish Fourth army has little chance to escape.
 Taken in conjunction with the al lied offensive, which has materially bent back the German front in Elan ders Artois and Pieardy and along
 the Aisne the new drive of Marshal I'och in the south will bear import
 ant fruit if 1t meets with success. Driving northward the entire west ern battle front would be shaken and of necessity be compelled to read just itself Lateral railway lines Of , great importance to the German posi- tions between Leaon and Vardun lie directly in the path of the advancing Frenco- American forces. Vouriercs, an important railway junction, on the
 main line from laon to Metz, is but r miles north of Servon. which al-
 ready is in the hands of the French.
 The Americans, through the cap- ture oi Gercourt. northwest Of Yer
 dun. are in the Mouse valley, which leads northward 10 Sedan. and little CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN,