The Carlisle independent., 1918-10-03
Bulgaria. It's Armies Smashed and Borders Crossed. Asks
 for an Armistice.
SEEKS A SEPARATE PEACE
Turkey Also Is Utterly DenoraIized by General tlienby's Splendid Sue cess in Palestine-AlIies Start
 Two New Offensives on
 the Western Front.
By EDWARD W. PACKARD.

Bulgaria, battered and invaded by the allies, broke down last week and made a formal appeal to her foes for an armistice and eventual peace. The request was made first 10 General d Es- percy, commanding the allies in Macedonia. by the comander of the Bulgarian army, and then to the allied governments by Premier Malinoff. D,Esperey promptly refused to suspend military operations but said he would receive delegates of the Bulgarian gov ernment. Liaptcheff, minister of finance. and General Loukoff. con- manding the Bulgarian Second army. started at once for the French head quarters
 Naturally Berlin flew into rage and asserted A1alinoff had acted against the wishes of King Ferdinand. but advices from Copenhagen said the remier's proposal was made in ac- cordance with the orders of leaders of the ministerial bloc of the Bulgarian parliament.
 Opinions in all the allied capitals was that no peace, and not even an armistice would be granted Bulgaria unless she gives up her spells, drives out her German advisers, surrenders strategic points and disarns her forces. In any case, + is regarded as certain that Bulgaria is now out of 1t az a belligerenty and that one great result will be the isolation of Turkey. 
 It was Q bad week for the Huns and their allies From all the battle fronts came reports of repulse, retreat. de feat or utter rout and disaster, the cen tral powers always being the losers. And to top 1t off. on Thursday the French and American armies started another big drive in the Champagne and in the region to the east Of It, which threatened the communication lines in the rear of the Hindenburg defense system and might even result in separating the German forces Tn the west into two groups.
 The drive, on a +0-mile front, was shing and Petain and all the way from the Suippe river to the Mouse the Germans were forced back, their bases and railway centers at Somme-Py and Challerange being in immediate peril. The Americans made the swiftest prog ress along the Mouse valley. taking many towns and thousands of prison CTS. The Huns were withdrawing all their forces except machine gunners. At the time of writing the Tanks and French were still advancing.
 This new allied attack came log ically after the Huns were driven back to the Hindenburg line and was we'll timed, for the enemy had concen- ltrated his heavy guns and all the troops he could spare further north to defend St. Quentin and Laon against the persistent assaults of the British and French. For quite distance east ward from Reims the terrain is so open that the movement of the allies Is favored, and any considerable ad- vance there would tend to cut the east ward communication lines from Laon, which city has been the pivot of the entire German system from Reims to Flanders.
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 The sensational news of the earlier part of the week came from Palestine and Macedonia. In the Holy Land General Allenby. by sudden. swift and skillfully conducted attack, smashed the Turkish forces between the River Jordan and the Mediterra- ,nean from the Jaffa-Jericho line clear up beyond the Sea of Galilee. Feint-