Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-09-25
SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT 2s, 1918
A RESUME OF WAR NEWS.
From All Fronts News Is Uniformly
In Entente Allies Favor. ~

Disaster appears to be overtaking
the armies of the Teutonic allies on
all fields.
In Palestine the Turks are all but
absolutely crushed; in Macedonia the
entente forces are harassing the enA
emy forces and threatening "Ethem
with similar disaster; in France the
British and French troops slowly
but surely are eating their way into
the yitals of the German defensive
positions, the collapse of which would
result In important changes all along
the western battle front, and in East
ern Siberia the Japanese have made
additional strides forward in the
process OF reclaiming 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
advantage vigorously. The Germans
and their allies nowhere are able to
do more than stand on their defen-
sive. And in Palestine and Macedo-
MIA their efforts in this respect have
proved sorry ones.
Virtually AnniI,iIatcd.
From north of Jerusalem to the
Sea Of Galilee, in the territory lying
between the River Jordan and the
Mediterranean Sea, the Ottoman
forces have been caught by the swift
drive of the British armies apd vir-
tually annihilated. Added to the
heavy casualties suffered by the
Turks, hordes of them were made
prisoners and many more are wan
dering, bewildered, without leaders,
in the hills, eventually to be brought
in to swell the great total. At last
accounts more than $4,000 of the
Sultan's soldiers and 26O 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.
Assailing Bulgars.
Over a front Of 80 miles in South
ern Serbia, from Monastir to Lake
Doiran, the entente troops are Wig
! orously assaiiTng the Bulgarians and
the Germans. Already in the, swift
drive q great spearhead has b beeif
tpusheft by the Serbiafls across the
Uskub-Prilep road, severing commu-
nication between the Bulgarian army
northeast Of Monastir and that In the
Lake Doiran region. Unofficial re-
ports are to the effect that the Serbs
have taken between 5000 and 10,-
prisoners and 100 guns.
In Full Retreat.
In the region between Monastir
and the Vardar the enemy troops are
in full retreat before the Italians,
French and Serbians, while west of
Doiran the British are steadily ham
mering their way forward, driving
the enemy northward toward the Bull
garian frontier. Already the enemy
line from Doiran to a point west of
the Vardar has been evacuated. This
force of the enemy, with the railroad
to the north severed, seemingly is in
danger of an enveloping movement
unless it turns sharply eastward and
presses into Bulgaria through the
mountains.
Operations III France.
Not SO spectacular but Of vital i'm
portance have been the operations of
the French and British from the
south Of st Quentin to Cambria.
Both the French Gen. Debeney and
Field Marshal Haig have won highly
essential ground in the manouvres
which have as their objectives the
obliteration of the Hindenburg line,
the capture Of st. Quentin and the
turning OF the German line at Laon.
South Of st. Quentin the French have
advanced their line to the west bank
Of the Disc canal over front of three
miles and now completely outfiank
st. Quentin on the south and La
Fere Oh the north. Meanwhile Field
Marshal Haig, north OF st. Quentin,
around the village Of Epehy, has
taken strong positions from the en-
emy.
In Eastern Siberia the japanese
have captured Blagoviestchensk, cap
ital Of the province of Amur, and
also the town Of Alexisvsk. Two
thousand Austro-German troops sur