The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-21
IN SHARP ATTACK
HAIC SMASHES AT
GERMAN BULWARk
Struck North OF st. Quentin at
5 This Morning.
Is After High Ground Which
Covers ScheIdt Canal.
BIJlGARS FLEE BEFORE SERBS
IMPRESSED Men in Bulgarian
Army Join Allies.
Vital Railway Threatened by
Macedonian Drive.
A BIG VICTORY IN PALESTINE
Turks Are Routed by British
and Arab Forces.
Allied Capitals Expect Big
Blow by FOch.
Impressed Men in bulgarian
Army Join Allies.
Vital Railway Threatened py
Macedonian Drive.
Big VICTORY IN PALESTINE
Turks Are Routed by Brltlsn
and Arab Forces.
Allied Capitals Expect Big
Blow by FOch.
cBv the Associated Press.)

With the British forces in France
Sept. 21.-English troops attacked the
German lines midway between HaNrlH.
court Wood and st. Quentin at nan
1,ast = o'clock this morning on IioA1
from, two and one-half to three illlles.
Field Marshal Haig's thrust was
made toward the strip of high grouho
in front of the Hindennurg oI uIhen'9'
which cover the Scheldt canal
Iondon Sept. 21-The British at
tack against the Hindenburg hne
northwest of st. Quentin was resufneu
this morning each of Epehy, says ln9
oficial report from Field MAI
rSs Serbian troops east of Monastir
have advanced more than nine nlles
in one day and now are less tndn els ~
miles from the main highway cohlece-
ing Prilep with the Nardar river.
In.their advance northward the ser
bians have passed the me hllS wv
Strigovo-Drogoel-Po
Soldiers who have been forced TO
enlist in the Bulgaria narmy durlhs
the occupation of southern Serpla are
throwing away their arms ana join
ing the army of liberation
Krnvovo is nine miles southwest OF
Domirkapu. the nearest point on the
Vardar river and the Uskub-SalonlKl
railroad from the advancing Serolan
line. should the railroad be reacneo
here the Bulgarisns fighting the. Brit-
ish and Greeks around Lake Dorian
would be cut off from their pase oi
supplies and reinforcements.
london. Sept 21.-Further steps
forward have been taken by the Brit
ish on the Flanders front. t1eld Mar
shall Haigs statement today al
nounces the improvement or the Bit
ish positiofl west of Messines, to the
south of Ypres, where strong point
antured.
Northwest of St Quentin the Brit
ish continued their progress thru the
main Hindenburl line, advancing their
front northwest of Bellenglise
North of Gauchy wood. west OF
Villers-G -Guislain, one of the BRUSH au-
vanced posts, was pressed back
slightly.
A British detachment of seven men
was surrounded and was believed to
have been captured when the Germans
took Moeuvres. Their post was in the
northern part of the village and they
held it for two days during the Ger
man occupation. inflicting losses on the
enemy When the village was retaken,
the entire party rejoined its unit with
out loss.
French Make Progress.
Paris, Sept. 21.-In their drive for
the outflanking of St. Quentin on the
south, the French last night captured
north of that place, says today's wal
office announcement.
Paris, Sept. 21.-The Germans ap-
peared to be fastening the removal
of the civil population of ST. Quentin
and fires have been observed in diff
ferent parts of the city, says Marcel
Hutin in the Echo de Paris. The Ger
mans, he adds, are placing numerous
battereies in St. Quentin.
London, Sept. 21.-A Serbian Of
ficial statement received here says
that a great number of prisoners
have been captured and that the al
lies have taken Godiyak, west of the
Cerna river and fifteen miles south
east of Prilep.
Macedonian Front Widens.
(By tie Associated Press)
Driving northward on an ever
widening front, the Serbian and
French forces in Central Macedonia
now menace the entire Bulgarian posi-
ton from the Adriatic to Saloniki
The cutting of the Uskub- -Salonik
railway which is only nine miles from