The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-07
ALONG THE FRONTS.

the allies and progress appears to be satisfactory every
where except possibly in Russia.
In the west the French British Belgian and American
armies driving the enemy back The German retreat
partly voluntary in places, but in other parts of the
front it is undenaby the results of absolute defeat adj
minsered by superior force The artillery fire in the
Argonne against the Americans is less effective than
usual as a result of the enemy losses of big guns.
Around St. Quentin the enemy has tried to make stand
and has been blasted back. Between Armentieres and
Lens he has fallen back six miles against his will and
contrary to his plans He is about be sheed of
Lille In Flanders he is burning AMI bombing every
thing as he retires, but he retires nevertheless
It is too soon to ascertain whether the German army
is actually compelled to retire along the whole front
whether it is gradually falling back, half voluntarily,
upon defense line to be held during the winter while
the German military and political machinery is
hauled for supreme effort next year. The allies, if
they wise, will make all preparations for continued
greater scale than and will strain every
point to keep the enemy moving.
Gen. 'DEsperey has announced that his forces will
now turn upon the Turk and throw him out of Europe.
Good! That announcement will be welcome to
every devout Christian in the world 1t is true that the
allies enemies of Islam such and in fact they
have just recognized the begerency of the Arabic
state that has arisen opposition to the Turk and taken
possession of the Mosem shrines and holy cities But
the Turk is as "unspeakabe" to the Mohammedans as
he to the Christians having defed both religions and
pauperzed and debAsed every foot of ground he has
ever ruled The rade is a curse to Europe When it is
elected from the Balkans there win be fair chance to
establish free governments there and in Asia Minor,
the danger of massacres
The situation in Italy to be good in spite of
the numerical superiority of the Austrian armies The
Italians determined to make Austrian offensive
cost the Hapsburgs dearly There will be offensive
from the enemy in the Italian Trentno if the Balkan
operations of the allies are pressed with vgor For
this is reassurng learn that the allied feet,
in which American vessels participated entered Durazzo
and demolished the port and the shipping within it. This
should have been done long ago. 1t is but the beginning
of what the allies should do in the Adratic They
destroy Pola if they WILL including the Austrian fleet
make the Austrian armys operations against Italy SO
dangerous as to be suicidal They can also take Dali
matia Istra and Trieste from Austria and shut off the
submarine communication between Germany and the
Mediterranean
Italian operations in Albania front of fifty miles,
playing havoc with Austrian plans The army morale
in Austria is extremely low, and since Bulgaria dropped
out Austria must for peace suffer revolution
Peace overtures, in fact, are being made. Now is
the time for striking hard at the Hapsburg organization
Italy, thoroughly informed concerning her ancient
envy, is Selling the opportunity to deliver staggering
blows The Serbians equally alive to their oppor
tunity and are literally gaopng back into their
land to have and to hold forever. The ROumanans,
surrounded by enemies hear the of the allied guns
and see the flash of approaching torches borne the
mountain tops by the sons of liberty. The Czecho-
Slovaks of Bohemia and Moravia are waiting for the
moment to light the fires Of revolution Austria Hungary
is doomed and its extinction may be than it
seems The allies should reject the peace overtures
being made by Austria and should redouble their mill
tary and naval energies against the Hapsburg system
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