Licking Valley courier., 1918-09-26

ALLIES DRIVE
I. CLOSER TO BIC
! GERMAN BASE
British and French Make Gains
in Movement Against .
st. Quentin.
SERBS peril BULGAR ARMY
Gain Nine Miles In Day and Approach
Great Prlep Highway - Many
Prisoners Have Been Captured,
Says Serbian Official Report.

London, Sept, 23--The British at
tack against the Hindenburg line
northwest Of St. Quentin was resumed
east Of Epehy, says the official report
from Field Marshal Halg.
.further steps forward have been
taken by the British on the Flanders
front. The statement announces i'm
provement of the British positions
west of Messlnes to the south of
Ypres, where strong point was cap
tured.
Northwest Of ST. Quentin the British
continued their progress through the
main Hindenburg line, advancing their
front northwest of Bellenglise.
British Casualties.
British casualties reported during
the week fcliow:
Killed or died of wounds, officers,
4S7; men, 3,153. Wounded or missing,
officers, 1915; men, 17,206.
Northwest of st. Quentin the Brit
ish continued their progress through
the main Hindenburg line, advancing
their front northwest of Bellenglise.
North of Gauche wood, west of vii
lers-Guislain, the British have been
pressed back slightly.
A British detachment of seven men
was surrounded and was believed to
have been captured when the Germans
took MOeuvres, Their post was in the
northern part of the village and they
held 1t for two days during the German
occupation and inficting losses on the
enemy. When the village was retaken
the party rejolned its unit without loss.
French Take Benay.
Paris, Sept. 22-In the drive for the
-oa sHIzsa Qgen!In on br
- :. the French captured ths-t9w1 Of
BendS and made progress north of that
place, the war Office announces.
The Germans appeared to be hasten
ing the removal of the civil population
OF st. Quentin and fires have been OBJ
served in different parts of the city,
says Marcel Hutin In the Echo de
Paris. The Germans, he adds, are plac-
ing numerous batteries In st. Quentin
At Castres, where the French are
only slightly more than two miles from
st. Quentin, German cOunter-attack
was repulsed.
Serbs Chase BuIears.
London, Sept. 23.-The Serbian
troops east of MOnastlr have advanced
more than nine miles in one day ant
now are less than eight miles from thu
main highway connecting Prilep will
the vardar river.
- A Serbian official statement received
here says that great number o
prisoners have been captured and tina
the allies have taken Godiyak, west o
the Cerna river, and 10 miles south
east of Prilep.
In their advance northward tn
Serbians have passed the line KrnyovJ
Observation-Disclosures.
Soldiers who have been forced t
henllst in the Bulgarian army during tn
Eoccupation of southern Serbia ar
throwing away their arms and Jolnin
the army Of liberation.
Kryn6yo is nine miles southwest
Domlrkapu, the nearest point on tn
yardar river and the Uskub-Salonll
railroad from the advancing Serbia
line. Should the railroad be reache
here the Bulgarlans fighting the Brl
ish and Greeks around Lake Doira
would be cut Off from their base
B supplies and re-enforcements.
Cavalry Presses Bulgars.
Paris, Sept. 23.-The official repo
ON the fighting in Macedonia reads:
"In spite Of the vigorous resistant
OF the enemy's rear guards the offe
slye between the Cernad and Vardt
rivers continued to progress. Alli'
cavalry have reached the region
i Poloshko. Serbian forceSshave gain'
foothold on the left hank of q
Cerna In the region of Dunye.
"The Serblans have succeeded In
centuatlng their progress In the dire
ton Of Konopishta, where they ha
traversed particularly difficult grou
- ON the range of hills between t
Belashnltsa river and Boshava. Fren
and Greek forces have taken the
lnge of Tushln and have gained TO
hold ON the town of Dzena.
Because of difficult communicate
over the vast amount of ground c,
cred by the operation, 1t is not possi'
as yet to estimate the number OF pl
oners taken, but It is known that o.
prisoners and so cannon have been G.
tured.
"The offensive of the Greeks q
R,ltish in the Lake Dolran regi
which has been marked by furious y
ties, continues to progress, Viol
counterattacks have been made
vain by Bulgarian forces"
MIC YANK ARMY IN FRANZ