French Broad hustler., 1918-10-24
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the central powers before them.
In Belgian Flanders the allies Ara
rapidly advancing.
The Germans are fighting desperate.
ly in France to withstay the advance
Of the allies.
The position Of the central powers
from the Lys river to the sea is ra,
ported to be seriously threatened
The Lille salient is gradually being
enmeshed by the allies.
In the Champagne region a mighty
struggle is going on, because the Ger.
mans here must effect a perfect re.
tirezaent to their own border in tbs
event of a final debacle.
The Germans are said to be partic.
ular bitter in their counter thrust
against the Americans.
Silent death in the blackness of
night, the fate of unnumbered Turk.
ish sentries surprised at their posts by
patrols of Indian troops with the
British army in Palestine, has imposed
upon the Ottoman soldiers a whole,
| some respect for these dark-skinned
fighters who replaced many white con,
! tingents sent to other fronts. + ~
Five hundred and forty-eight Ger.
man airplanes were shot down by the
allies on the western front in Septem.
Der, it is announced in London.
I Seventeen thousand six hundred and
! fifty-nine German prisoners have been
captured by the Americans in the
! fighting between the Meuse and Ar.
| gonne forest since September 26, it is
announced from Londop. i, '~~'~0Fq
The German battle line in France
continues to bend under the attacks of
: tie entente allies. But nowhere has
it been broken, The enemy almost ev-
| erywhere is in retreat toward new po.
Siticns. But his retreat is orderly, and
! the allies are being compelled to fight
! their way forward slowly.
The French have blotted out both
La Fere and the greater portion Of
the ST. GObain massif standing in
the elbow where the line runs east
ward toward the Swiss forntier.
Having cleared out the old Laon
salient and made advances northward
the retirement of the Germans east
ward toward the Valenciennes-M -Mezier-
I es-Metz line, General Foch has order
ed drive in the Lys region of Flan-
| ders toward Gkent, which threatens
to break entirely the grip of the Ger
! mans in Belgium all the way from the
frontier to the coast, and likewise to
eliminate the big bulge in the line with
, Lille as it's apex.
Roulers has been captured and
Courtrai, the junction point on the
railway leading to Client, has been
! outf1anked.
/ 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
tish and Irish coasts in COLLISION
with the steamer Kashmir, says dis
I patch from "A British Port" Inc
.Otranto after the collision was dashe0
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
line ten miles to the north OF tna''
town. More*than three thousand prls'
oners were taken.
Belgian authorities have delivered
orders to Belgian residents in Eng
land directing them to return to then
native land
! It is believed. that 900 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 Gei-
mans are flying eastward from tnenI
old battle positions from Doual 10 Ia
Fere and northward from La Fere W
the Meuse river. Their fight IS wi
ward some haven of safety from INC
talons of the allied hawks.
The famous Chemin-des-DameS'
I the ridge which the Germans had Oe
lieved to be an insuperable barrier !"
an advance northward from SolSSon0'
is being evacuated.
Along the Meuse river the French
, and American troops are pushing Iui'
ther northward.
| Douai. is now completely outfanheu
by the latest operations of the Div
ish.
Field Marshal Mackensen has a.
rived in Old Serbia not to aid the Dur
garians, but to save the remnants y,
the Austro-G German forces when tno
allies are closely following toward 'n'
Danube.
A revolt has broken out in Bruses'
Belgium, the populace having ariSoD
against the attempts of the Gerni"no
to deport the civilians, accordlns
a dispatch from Amsterdam.
TaIaat Pasha, the Turkish pren,olI,
has resigned and has been succeeuoJ
by Tewfk Pasha, former premier anu
ex-ambassador at London En'oa
Pasha, the minister of war, also n'0