The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-10-11

ria, and, at his right. General Joanna,
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In Champagne there was no marked
change during the week, though both
the French and the Americans con-
tinued To move forward The Yankees
were NJ against hard proposition in
the forest of Argonne. where the dense
woods were full of machine gun nests
and the fighting was almost like bat
tie in the dark This style Of warfare.
however. seemed Ia suit the Americans
and in broken groups they battled
their way onward, passing beyond
Cierges and always keeping in contact
with the retreuting enemy. For miles
they were hampered by the scarcity Of
roads. the mud and the innumerable
and bravely defended fortified shell
craters. They captured during the week
great numbers of guhs and quantities
of material. including three big OBJ
servation balloons. On the left flank
of the Americans Gouraud's French
men fought their way northward with
the greatest intrepedity and cut off
munication with their comrades in the
Argonne forest region. If they can
keep up this advance the Huns i'm the
salient pointing towards Reims will
fine themselves I'm an awkward pocket
The Germans i'm this sector were fall
ing back to the sO-called kriemhild
line, and captured documents showed
they intended to try TO hold that line
through the winter. The fact is they
have no organized line of defense be-
tween ii and the French border. The
Americans In Champagne as well AZ
those I'm the st. Quentin sector dis
played gallantry and dash that have
not been surpassed.
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The most spectacular exploit Of the
week was the raid on the Austrian
naval base at Durazzo. American,
British and Italian warships made
their way through the mine fields and
completely destroyed the base and all
the Austrian vessels in the harbOr ex-
cept hospital ship The only dam
age To the attacking force was the
slight injury of British cruiser by "a
torpedo.
The Bulgarians in signing the arms
tice submitted to every demand of the
allies, which included demoblizing
their army and surrendering the con
troll of all their means of rrsnspOrta-
ton. besides breaking entir ly with the
other central powers. They even said
they were willing to attack Turkey, In
conjunction with the allies. Their
troops at once began withdrawing from
Serbia and all their military supplies
were turned over to the forces Of the
entente. The internal situation In Bull
garia was somewhat confused. but the
claims Of Berlin that King Ferdinand
would remain faithful to the central
alliance seemed unfounded. IIOwever,
he evidently feared for his own safety
for he was reported to have taken
refuge in a royal castle near Vienna.
Naturally, il will be some time before
the allies can reap the full benefits of
the Bulgarian surrender In the way OF
cutting across the corridor TO Bag
dad" and is0ating Turkey. Meanwhile
they continued the task Of driving the
lAuStrianS and Germans out of Serbia.
Z II was said n large number Of Ger
man troops were sent to Sofia to try
To force Bulgaria to retract her ac-
ton. but these. if there. more likely
8re to be used I'm defending the com
Z munIcation with Constantinople. When
the French. SerbanS, Greeks and Ital-
ians have advanced far enough To the
norihward they probably will be Joined
by great numbers Of Southern Slavs
and men of other races who have long
waited for the chance To revolt against
Austria. The way will then be open
for an attack on the dual kingdom
from the south.
Though not yet officially confirmed
there were various well authenticated
reports last week that Turkey had
informally sought for information AZ
10 the terms on which she could make
peace. Her condition is desperate, for
General Allenby continued his victOri-
Gus progress in Palestine and on
Tuesday occupied Damascus, the Turk
ish base In Syria, taking more than
1000 prisoners. With the British was
a portion Of the army of Arabs of the
Hedjaz, now recognized by the allied
governments as co-belligerents.
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Necessarily all this had great effect
In the Teutonic nations. The excite
ment In Berlin approached panic and
the newspapers made no attempt to
conceal the gravity of the situation.
The first concrete results were the res