Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-19
BELGIAN COAST AGAIN IS BELGIAN; ZEBRUGGE, ROBALX, TURCOLNG FALL;
 GERMAN RESISTANCE NOW FURIOUS

UNDATED WAR LEAD.-By the Associated Press. 1.-The Belgian coast again in Belgian
 Germany's dream of an invasion of England across the North sea from Calais is ended
 Belgian Flanders is fast being evacuated by the enemy and this line from the Belgian frontier to the Mouse river gradually is giving Way under the attacks of the British. French and American armies. which are demand ing to be served with victory.
 haven of safety in a shorter and more compact line is being sought by [ the Germans, in order to escape ami hilatiOn by their foes. Everywhere they are being whipped. but seeming ly they are still far from defeat. In Belgium the enemy is giving ground hastily in order to bring his armies safely out of the trap which menaces them, but from the French frontier to the Mouse river he still is fighting desperately to hold back the lower jaw of the great FOch pincer from closing in "a great cOnverging movement and entrapping in it's nav the German fighting force in its en- tirety. And thus far he has success fully. through the use of picked troops and machine gunners who know de- feat only in death. warded off the eliminating blow.
 Zeebrugge. Germany's second great est submarine base on the North sea. has gone the way of Ostend The flag of Belgium once more flies over 1t. To the south Bruges has been evacuated and Turcoing. Roubaix and other towns have been delivered. Out of the great sack between the North sea and the Lys river the enemy is fleeing fast in an endeavor to prevent capture or interment in Holland. His hope is that he will be able to reach Antwerp and there recOnstitute his line from the Dutch frontier through Antwerp and Namur to some point in the sOVth. probably Sedan or Metz, stabilize it for the moment at least to the Swiss frontier
 In France. east of Lille to Cambrai. the British slowly but surely are pressing forward. despite supreme ef- forts of the enemy to hold them, blot ting out the big salient which has TOUrnai as its northern and Valen- ciennes its southern enemy-held bases. To assure the collapse of this salient Field Marshal Haig. with whose forces are brigaded men from the United States. Is driving hard along the BO- hain-Le Cateau front In a maneuver which is meeting with success and throwing Valeneiennes into danger Ous pocket.
 To the south in the sack between the Disc and the Serre rivers north of Laon. the Germans slowly are with drawing toward HirsOn, with the enemy impeding the allies progress with strong rear guards. Likewise in Champagne. the Germans are offering strong resistance against the French and Americans in their attempts to drive nOrthward toward MeZieres and Sedan. The French. nevertheless. have been able to cross the Aisne river near VOuZiers and thus have made more secure the positions of the FrancO-American forces in the valley of the Aire at Grand-Pre.
 To the east. the Americans on both sides of the Mouse river are slowly going forward. Between the great wooded bastion and the Mouse picked troops have been chosen to fend the blow northward toward Sedan. All the ground that is being won is being valiantly defended to the last.
 In the Macedonian theater the Greeks now are in full possession of Greek Macedonia. Albania is fast be ing cleared of the enemy and in Serbia the TeutOnic allied forces have been driven 30 miles north of Nish In Syria the victorious forces of General Allenby now are meeting with scant resistance.