French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-09-26
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On the ancient battlefelds Of Judea
the British, French and Arabs are driv-
ing the Turks peIl nell back into Asia.
In the latest drive the allied troops
penetrated the Turkish lines to a
depth of twelve miles and captured
more than three thousand Turks. s.
Added to their already heavy losses
in ground, men killed, wounded or
made prisoners and stores captured
in Belgium, France, Italy and the Bal
kans, the Teutonic allies, judging from
first reports Of the hostilfties begun
against the Ottoman in Palestine, are
in for further extremely hard usage,
In addition to the large number OF
prisoners taken great quantities of war
materials have fallen into the hands OF
the allied troops. 81
The ~predicament of the Turks in Pal
estine is heightened by the operations
of the Hedjas tribesmen on the eastern
side of the Jordan, which will prevent
them from taking refuge across the
stream in the Jordan valley and COM
pels them to fight their way out Of
their/trouble west OF the river as best
they may. 81
Ten thousand Bulgarian prisonefs
were sent to the rear on September Is
alone says the Paris Echo de Paris.
The pursuit o fthe ~retreating enemy
CONTINUES with great success.
Capture of several villages and 5000
prisoners is recorded in the Serbian
official statement. The Bulgarians are
burning their depots and camps.
Efforts to organize pillaging by the
German army and the transportation
of loot appear from official documents
and verified incidents to have been
much more effective than the work Of
carrying out the removal Of legiti-
mate wal booty during this summers
operations.
An order found in the pocket of a
German prisoner, signed by. General
Won Marwitz, throws light on the sub
ject of pillaging. 1t condemns in Sc
YER terms disorganized looting opera
tions by soldiers on their personal &C
count, and points out that the men
Of loot detachments'' bear white arm
badges and special Identification cards
and have the same powers as military
police.
Both the British and French armies
in Pfcardy have materially developed
their plans for the eventual envelop-
ing Of st. Quentin and Cambria.
More than ten thousand prisoners,
and in xcess of sixty large guns, fell
into the hands Of the British during
the big operation begun by Field Mar
shall Faig northwest of st. Quentin.
The Bulgarians are in flight in Mac
edonia and are burning stores and
villages. The allied troops % have
advanced mor than twelve miles and
their progress is so rapid that they
have not been able to count the pris-
oners and war material taken.
Serbian and French troops have
taken the towns Of Topolets, Potshe-
ishta, Beshista, Melynitsa, Vitolishta
and Rasimbey.
An official note says that Foreign
Minister Pichon, in acknowledging to
the Swiss minister the receipt of Aus
tria's peace proposal, sent with his
letter a copy of the official journal
containing Premier Clemenceau's
speech in the senate.
The Belgian foreign minister in Lon
don declares that the conditions Of
peace offered by Germany to Belgium
cannot be taken seriously.
The Italian government has no
knowledge of the Austrian note in
viting the belligerents to a conference
except for the telegraphic agencies. The
Italian government is in no mood for
opening such negotiations as are sug-
gested in the unofficial text.
In the various theaters of the war
the fighting is going on steadily and
with added impetus in Macedonia,
where the reconstructed Serbian army,
cooperating with the French forces,
have stormed three strongly fortified
positions and occupied Vetrenik, Dob
ropolje and Sekal, considered the most
important part of the Macedonian
| front.
A movement exceeding perhaps that
Of the Czecho-Slovaks is being organic
ed by Polish officers to form a Polish
division 20 fight in Siberia westward
to their oppressed fatherland, as int
Sral units in the American army.
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