The Little River news., 1918-09-25
l8,OOO TURKS AND IZO
 GUNS ARE CAPTURED
Foch's Famous Method Is Employed ill brilliant VictOry-British cavalry
 Makes Dash Across Field of Ara
 geddOn, Sweeping Enemy Back.

London, Sept. 22-With the violence
 of the operations on the Western fronj
 ill Trance considerably diminished in
 intensity the Turks ill Palestine and
 the Bulgsrians and their allies in Mav
 celonia are being put to tae test But nowhere thus far have they been able
 to hold back, or even to counteract the onslaughts oI their foes.
 In Palestine the Turks seemingly are in the process of being crushed; in Macedonia the entente forces are driving sharp wedges for considerable
 distances into the enemy fronts. In,France knd Flanders where there has been any fighting rising in import ance above patrol encounters the Brit ish, French and American troops have kept the upper hand and advanced their respective lines.
 Fight on Historic Ground. Of transcen5ent interes: for the moment, at least, are the operations of the British, General Allenbys forces in Palestine. Here in less than four days the British have swept for ward in the center between the River Jordan and taken famous Nazareth,
 while their wings closed around a.
 swift enveloping movement and nip ped within the maW Ot the great pincer all the Ottoman forces in the coastal sector, the plain of Sharon, the hill region in the center and also the western Jordan valley. Meanwhile to the northeast the , friendly Arab forces of the king oi /, the Hedje,s have cut ls'ii railway com
 munication in front of the fleeing l Turks and are standing barrier to
 their escape by way of the eastern
 plains.
 { Spells of War Large.
 More than 1S00O Turks had been
 made prisoner by the British lna gun5 in excess of 12O had been counte,: when the last reports from General
 Allenby were received. in addition great quantities or war stores had l been captured and some others hat
 not been counted owing to the rapid
 ity of the movement.
 i It is not improbable that within /, the bag, the strings of which have
 been dftW taut, closing the mouth, thousands of Turks are enmeshed g1any of those already made prison CTS, fleeing ill disorder, literally
 walked into the hands of the British, l not knowing their lines of retreat had been cut off.
 Although the Turks at some points offered considerable resistance to the British, at no point were they able to
 stay the advance, even on the famous field of Armageddon, which the Brit
 ish cavalry swept across and occupied , Nazareth, to the north.
 British Losses Slight. In the operation O. sewing the ene- my within the sack airplanes played
 an important role, vigorously bomb ing the retroating Turks, inflicting enormous casualties on them. The losses of General Allelby are descriD- cd ;a5 slight in comparison With, the ! importance O. the movement carried i out.
 In Macedonia, the Italians have 1 joined the fray with the British, French. Serbian and Greek troops ant
 are k.rd after the Bulgarians and
 their allies, who are being driven
 northward through southern Serbia.
 Between the Cerna and Vardar rivers,
 although the Bulgarians and Germans
 are sending up achievements, the al-
 liea troops have continued their pres
 sure The Serbians west or the Var dar river have crossed the Prilep-Ish- tib road at Kavardar, which cOnsti-
 tutes an advance of more than 25 miles into their once held territory.
 To the east of Monastir the Italians have begun operations in the Cerna
 bend and have taken several posi- tiOns. while between the Cerna and the Var3ar the French c.SO nave mel with successes.