New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-27

Paris, Sept. "a French iorcea
fighting along the line south of st.
Quentin have reached the Disc river
between Vendeuil and Ttavecy, &C.
cording to the official statement is
sued at the war office.
Disaster has overtaken the Teuton
over all fields.
In Palestine the Turks are all but
absolutely crushed; in Macedonia the
entente forces are marrying their foes
and threatening them with similar dis
aster; in France the British and
French troops slowly but surely are
eating their way into the vitals Of the
German defensive positions, the col
lapse Of which would result in IMPORT
ant changes all along the western bat
tie front, and in eastern Siberia the
Japanese have made additional strides
forward In the process of retaining
that territory for the Russians.
In all the theaters Of the war the
entente allies have the initiative In
their hands and are pressing their ad-
vantage vigorously. The Germans
and their allies nowhere are able to
do more than stand on the defensive
And in Palestine and Macedonia their
efforts in this respect have proved
sorry ones.
From north of Jerusalem to the sea
of Galilee, in the territory lying be-
tween the River Jordan and the Med.
iterranean sea, the Ottoman forces
have been caught by the swift drive
Of the British armies and virtually
annihilated. Added TO the heavy cas-
ualties suffered by the Turks, hordes
of them were made prisoner and many
more are wandering, bewildered. with.
out leaders, in the hills, eventually to
be brought into swell the great total.
At last accounts more than $4,000 OF
the sultan's soldiers and 2G0 guns and
large quantities of war stores were in
British hands.
To add to the Generalization of the
Turkish morale, allied aviators are
carrying out successful bombing raids
against ConstantinOple.
Over a front Of eighty miles in
southern Serbia, from MOnastir to
Lake Dorian, the entente troops are
assailing the Bulgarians
and Germans. Already in the swift
drive in the center a great spearhead
has been pushed across the lstib.Pri-
lep road, severlng communications be-
tween the Bulgarian army northeast
of Monastir and hat in the Lake Dol.
region. Unofficial reports are to
the effect that the Serbs have taken
between 5000 and 10000 prisoners and
20 guns.
In the region between Monastir and
The Vardar the enemy troops are in
full retreat before the Italians,
French and Serbians, while west Of
Dorian the British are steadily ham.
their way forward. driving the
enemy northward toward the Bulgar.
frontier. Already the enemy line
rom Dorian to a point west of the
has been evacuated. This force
If the enemy, with the railroad to the
lorth severed, seemingly is ip danger
If an enveloping movement unless it
urns sharply eastward and presses in
Bulgaria through the mountains.
Not so spectacular, but OF vital i'm.
,ortance, have been the operations Of
he French and British from the south
II st. Quentin to Cambria. Both the
french General Debeney and Field
MARSHAL Haig have won highly essen
ial ground in the maneuvers which
lave as their detectives the oblitera.
ion of the Hindenburg line, the cap
ure of St. Quentin and the turning Of
he German line at Laon. South of st.
the French have advanced
heir line to she west bank OF the Disc
anal over a front of three miles and
Iow completely outflank ST. Quentin
the south and La Fere on the north.
Field Marshal Haig. north
4 st. Quentin, around the village Of
,pehy, has taken strong positions from
he enemy.
In eastern Siberia the Japanese have
aptured Blagoviestchensk, capital of
he province OF Amur, and also tho
own Of Alexievsk. Two thousand
lustro-G German troops surrendered.
London. Sept. 23.-Nineteen Ger
ian airplanes have been accounted
or by British airmen. while the Brit
themselves have lost but eleven
,achines, according to Field Marshal
Iaig's report.
Gen. Allenby's forces in Palestine
less than four days have swept
in the center sixty miles from
heir original positions between the
Jordan and taken the famous
'azareth. while their wings closed In
swift enveloping movement and
ipped within the nav Of the great
nicer all the Ottoman forces in the
Dastal sector, the plain of Sharon,
ne hill region In the center and also
ne western Jordan valley. More than
1000 Turks have been made prisoner
y the British and guns in excess Of
20 have been taken.