The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-10
ST.0UENTIN TAKEN
BY ALLIED FORCES
Keystone Position of linden
burg Line Entered by Gen.
Debeney's Troops.
HUNS LOSING ON ALL FRONTS
British and BeIsians Continue Rapid
Advance and Have Almost Cut
Off U-Boat Bases.

OFF O-Boat Bases.
Washington, Oct 2-The town of
StQuentin, upon which the Germans
had so firmly builded their hopes OF
proving an insuperable barrier to the
Allies, at last has been entered by the
French and seemingly the gateway is
open to Marshal Foch for q swift ad-
vance eastward in his task of reclaim
ing northern France.
Meanwhile, the Germans and their
allies on all the battle fronts have con-
tinued to play losing game, and re-
port has it that the Turks, realizing
the critical situation through success
sive defeats and the withdrawal of
Bulgaria from the war, are sending out
peace feelers'
From northern Belgium to the re-
gion of Verdun, the battle front is still
seething with activity on various
fronts and with the Entente forces
continuing to make gains against the
Germans which are seriously imperil-
ling the enemy lines.
BeIgians and British Take Towns.
In Flanders, the Belgians and Bri-
tisE in the region from Dixmude to
Armentieres have further driven in
their sharp wedge eastward, capturing
important towns and cutting lines OF
communication necessary to the con-
tinued holding by the Germans Of
their submarine bases on the North
sea.
From Cambria to St Quentin, not
withstanding most violent reactions
from the Germans, the British, Amer
leans and French again have won
heavily fortified positions of the
enemy all along the front.
Midway between ST. Quentin and
Cambria, the remaining portions of the
old Hindenburg line are slowly being
demolished, although the Germans
have imposed the strength of nearly
half a million men against the Allied
troops to hold the. front, the breaking
through of which, in conjunction with
the successful maneuvers in Flanders
along the Aisne and in Champagne,
would mean disaster.
French Steadily Advance.
Between the Vesle and Aisne rivers
the French continue to push back the
Germans north OF the Aisne, while in
Champagne the French operating in
conjunction with the Americans are
steadily advancing northward.
Their guns now dominate the Aire
river valley, running to the north of
the Argonne forest, while on the 9th
er side of the forest the Americans
are slowly coming up the Aire valley
from the South and soon will be in
position, with the French, to nip this
great wooded bastion out of the Ger
man line
In the mountain region of the Ital-
ian front there has been a consider
able increase in artillery activity, and
it is probable that Marshal Foch soon
will begin an offensive against the
Acknowledgements.
italian Drive Near.
General Allenby in Palestine has
surrounded Damascus and French
cavalry is reported to be working its
way up the Mediterranean sea coast
toward Beyreut.
In the Macedonian theater west Of
Lake Ochrida, the Austrians are evac-
uating territory, in Albania, probably
indicating that, now Bulgaria is out of
the war, the Austro-Hungarian real
ize they are in a serious predicament,
far from home and with no allies to
aid them
Peace demonstrations have been
held in Berlin, in which police inter
vention became necessary. Some ex-
cesses were committed by the crowds,
such as the tearing down of statues.
Bulgaria Surrenders Internationally.
Washington, Oct. Bulgaria is
definitely out of the war, and Turkey,
virtually cut off from communication
with her allies and her armies in Pal
estine almost annihilated, it is likely
soon will be forced to sue for cessa-
ton of hostilities against her.
Meanwhile, the Entente Allied forces
from Belgium to Verdun on six battle
fronts are registering victory after
victory over the Teutonic armies, and
the enemy front almost everywhere is
crumbling, notwithstanding the des-
perate resistance that is being offered
on various sectors.
Seeing eventual defeat staring her
| In the face through the swift progress
of the Serbian, Italian, British, Greek
and French troops in the retaining
of Serbia and the invasion of Bulgar-
ian territory, the Bulgars begged for
an armistice, reserving to themselves
no conditions.