The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-27

fighting along the line south of st.
Quentin have reached the Disc river
between yendeuil and Travecy, ac-
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 bat
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 yitals of the
German defensive positions, the col
lapse of which would result in import
ant changes all along the western bas-
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
or nj To !,
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 go guns and
large quantities of war stores were in
British hands.
To add 10 the Decentralization 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
vigorously assailing the Bugarians
and Germans. Already in the swift
drive in the center a great spearhead
has been pushed across the lstib-Pri-
lep road, severing communications be-
tween the Bulgarian army northeast
of Monastir and that in the Lake Dol
ran region. Unofficial reports are to
the effect that the Serbs have taken
100 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,
mering their way forward, driving the
enemy northward toward the Bulgar-
ian frontier. Already the enemy line
from Dorian 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 1t
turns sharply eastward and presses in
to Bulgaria through the mountains.
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 General Debeney and Field
Marshal Haig have won highly essen
tial ground in the maneuvers which
Rave as their detectives the oblitera-
ton of the Hindenbur2 line, the cap
ture 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 a front of three miles and
now completely outflank st. Quentin
on the south and La Fere on the north.
Meanwhile Field Marshal Haig, north
of st. Quentin. around the village of
Epehy. has taken strong positions from
the enemy.
In eastern Siberia the Japanese have
captured Blagoviestchensk, capital of
the province of Amur, and also the
town of Alexievsk Two thousand
Austro-German troops surrendered.
London, Sept, 23.-Nineteen Ger
man airplanes have been accounted
for by British airmen, while the Brit
fish themselves have lost but eleven
machines. according to Field Marshal
Haig's report.
Gen. Allenby's forces in Palestine
in less than four days have swept
forward in the center sixty miles from
their original positions between the
River Jordan and taken the famous
Nazareth. while their wings closed in
swift enveloping movement and
nipped within the NAV of the great
pincer all the Ottoman forces in the
coastal sector the plain of Sharon.
the hill region in the center and also
the western Jordan valley More than