The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-10-18
kaiSer'S Back Wall Has Fallen
and His Front Wall Is
Crumbling Fast.
aiNDENBuRG LINE SMASHED
Bulgaria surrenders Internationally
and Turkey 10 Wobbiine-St. Quen-
tin and Damascus Captured
Huns Preparing To Get
Out Of Belgium.
BY EDWARD w. PIckARD

The kaiser put his back to wall In
the vain effort to check the allies
on the western front, and the wall
collapsed. Bulgaria surrendered. prac-
tically Internationally Turkey at
once put out peace feelers; Austria
Hungary cried for cessation OF the
war, and the Ukrainians rose In re-
volt against the Huns.
Meanwhile the allies kept up their
| ceaseless hammering at the kaiser's
front wall-the Hindenburg line-and
| by smashing through II at many
points proved 1t was not the impreg-
nabie system of defense that the Ger
mans haA supposed IL TO be. FROM the
sea to Verdun the battle .blazed day
and night, and the official reports
showed an almost unbroken series OF
victories for the allies. The Belgian
army, assisted by British troops and,
unexpectedly, by French army,
jumped into the fray at the beginning
Of the week, and. taking Dixmude and
the important Wytschaete ridge, adj.
yanced swiftly as far as Roulers.
Thereupon the Huns began making
preparations that indicated complete
withdrawal from Belgium. North and
south of La Bassee canal they were
In full flight, with the British close on
their heels, and as Ilaigs men ap
preached Lille the enemy began the
evacuation of that city, the German
commander requisitloning all mean
Of transportation TO remove his plum
der. Investing Roulers, the allies gain
ed control Of the railroad to the Ger
| man submarine bases at OSiend ant
foe was removing his heavy guns fron
; the Belgian coast and that the gov
ernor general of Belgium had in
structed the provincial governors I
send all their archives at once 10 Bru'
selS.
Armentieres and Lens were abar
= ,oned by the Huns Tuesday night.
ID
In the attack on Cambria the Bri
.sh with whom an American contii
gent was fighting, met with despera'
"a resistance and here and there suffe
II ed a local reverse. but they could n
le be long checked and pushed ahes
G with logged determination until the
81 had the city at their mercy. The HUI
10 burned vast quantities of stores
their preparations for withdrawal.
le IA
; Next to the south comes the
al Quentin sector. and there the fren'
81 under General Debeney won a gre
u victory, capturing the city after II
'h mendous fighting which was tiercest
~ and about the St. Quentin canal III
T. place was one OF the keystones of I
'S Hlndenburg line and its capture
- sured the retirement Of the GerIna
IN wide front. Immediately north
Is 81 Quentin the British were engag
In nv enemy reserves of stormlng troo
or and the fighting was furious. But
I'D British succeeded In breaking throu
is the German line on the BeauYoir-Wi
court front and created salient Il
~. rrestly helped in the capture OF
lii-
In Quentin by the French:
- Between the Disc al La Frre q
!. the Alsne the French pushed on
- ward Laon aud succeeded in pass
80 beyond the elaborate system of wat
ways that comprised the chief defe
~ The enemy and reaching open co
en try where the tanks could operate
oh advantage. North OF Reims foS
oh' troops drove the Huns back TO the Al
and the Aisne-Marne canal. clear
hu the country north of the Vesle and
r! leasing a number Of towns They
'se sInsd the sstlre St Thierry massi