Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-27
TANKS ADVANCE SEVEN MILES ON THEIR FRONT TAKING TO- TAI OF TWELVE VILLAGES IN GUIDING SOME VERY STRONG " FORTIFIED PLACES
MENACE STRONGHOLDS
IN MEAN TIME BRITISH AND FRENoH MAKE GAINS AROUND ST. QUENTIN WHILE BRITISH INVADE BULGARIA; VICTORY IN PALESTINE

UNDATED WAR LEAD BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Twelve towns
 and more than 5000 German prisoners
 have been taken by American troops
 fighting in conjunction with the
 French, in new offensive begun with
 the break of day Thursday in the re-
 gion extending from the northwest of Verdun to within fifteen miles of the Cathedral city of Rheims.
 The Americans advanced to depth
 of seven miles, overcoming the stub
 born resistance of the enemy. Pennsyl- Vania, Kansas and Missouri troops were among the fighting forces which
 in less than day won territory of
 great importance to the enemy and further depleted his army through men captured or killed or wounded.
 American troops have taken over a Hew sector in France. and in conjunc- ton with the French have forced the Germans on the defensive on still an other battle front.
 The Gage of battle has been thrown down on forty mile front extending from the Suippe river in Champagne, fifteen miles east of Rheims. eastward through the Argonne forest to the Mouse river northwest of verdun.
 In the first stages of the battle all lied lines were pushed forward for ma terially fains-that portion immediate ly northwest of Verdun held by the Americans to a depth of from five to six miles and that of the French to the west nearly four miles at certain points.
 Under the terrific bombardment pre- ceding the commencement of the bat tie the Germans hurriedly quit numel- Ous positions, and into these the Amer ican and French went unimpeded. At last accounts the allied attack was favorably Many French villages and German strong points had been captured.
 British troops have invaded Bulgaria from the north of Lake DOiran in Ma cedOnia, making another epoch in the history of the war. Aside from the | moral effect of the penetration of the 1 country of King Ferdi- | nand, the maneuver is likely to prove . of great strategic value once the Istru- ! mitza river valley leading toward the ! Sofia-Seres railway is reached.
 Meantime days of diversity con- . time with the Teutonic allies in south I srn Serbia and Palestine. and the Bri- ! tish and French are keeping up their . which are gradually bring ing the important town of St Quentin into their hands. In Serbia the Serbs. Italians, Greeks and British are threat ening the enemy forces with disaster by reason of their rapid advance and 1 the state of confusion into which the and Germans have been thrown by the shock of the offensive.
 Likewise the Turks in Palestine are being sadly harassed by the forces of the British General Allenby and the Lribesmen of the king of the Hedias. Almost surrounded east of the Jordan he Turks are frantically endeavoring to extricate themselves from the con gerging allied forces. From the east md south the British are driving the OttOmans nOrthward. and coming 'outh to meet the enemy and to crush nm between the two allied lines are Arabs. Seemingly with all the cross ngs of the Jordan now in allied hands he Turkish fourth army has little to escape.
 Taken in coniunction with the allied offensive, which has materially bent pack the German front in Flanders. Artois and Picardy and along the Aisne. the new drive of Marshal Foch n the south will bear important frui: f it meets with success.
 Driving northward the entire west srn battle front would be taken and ,f necessity be compelled 10 readjust tself. Lateral railway lines of great importance, the German positions be- .ween Lton and Verdun lie directly in he path of the advancing Franco American forces. Vouziers. an i'm )Ortant railway junction on the main inc from LaOn to Hetz. is but twelve
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