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however. have captured great guam
titles of material.
Around Prilep, the Serbians are on
the Gradsko-Prilep road. to the north
east while to the southeast they have
reached the steep massif of the Dren-
ska mountain range.
Palestine Advance Continues.
London, Sept. 24.-British cavalry.
pushing up the Mediterranean coast of
Palestine, have occupied Haifa and
Acre it is officially announced today.
East of the Jordan the Turks are
Hedjas railway. Australian. New Zea-
land. Jewish and other troops are pur-
suing the enemy and have reached
Es-Salt, fifteen miles northwest OF
| Amman. (
The total number of Turks taken
prisoner will exceed largely the $4,000
already reported, the official statement
announces.
The town of Ma'An, southeast of
| the Dead sea on the Hedjas railway.
has been occupied by Arbas who are
attacking parties of Turks retreating
| toward Amman along this railway. 2
The text of the statement reads:
| East of the Jordan the enemy Is
| withdrawing toward Amman on the
| Hedjast railway, pursued by Austria
new LedldHu, w IHuidu anu
Jewish troops which have reached Es-
Salt, capturing guns and prisoners.
'In the north cavalry have occu-
pied Haifa and Acre after slight ap-
position rs
1.-The number of prisoners is increas-,
| ing and the total will exceed largely
the $4,000 already mentioned. Z
| Arab forces of King Hussein have
coupled Ma'An and are harassing
bodies of the enemy retreating north
| ward toward Amman along the Hedjas
railway"
BuIgars Admit Defeat.
Sofia, Sept. 22-via London. Sept.
| 24.-"As result of our front giving
way in the angle between the Cerna
and the Vardar." says the Bulgarian
war office statement today. "our adj
| jaeent units were withdrawn to new
positions to the south of Prilep and to
| the north of Doiran.' .
Disaster Threatened.
sfBy the Associated Press)
| With their center broken by the on-
slaught of the French. Serbian and
Italian armies. with the British and
Greeks sweeping over the strongest
defenses in the Lake Dorian region
lions virtually destroyed, the Bulgar-
| ian, Austro- Hungarian and German
armies on the Macedonian front have
| begun a retreat which seems to
| threaten disaster. I
Over a front OF over ninety miles.
| in disorder which is said to be inde-
scribable. On the west they are try
ing to reach Prilep from the vicinity Ut
Monastir but sPrilep is outflanked BY
the advancing Serbians, who are no6
| marching upon the city. The railroad
| the Vardar valley and forming the
| chief artery of communication for the
Bulgarian forces along Lake Doiran
has been cut by the Serbians who
have crossed the iVardar. In the cenA
ter the enemy resistance appears to be
completely broken and the French and
| Serbians are moving northward at a
rate which indicates the absence OF
any organized resistance.
May Change Whole Balkan Situation.
The disaster which threatens the
Teutonic armies on this front is one
which may change the whole COM
| plexion of affairs in the Balkans. The
| enemy armies appear to have been
split in twain and forced to retreat
northward over mountain roads which
are. in a majority of cases, merely
| paths. 1t is probable that the retro
grade movement will spread to the
/ eastward of Lake Dorian and involve
| the whole front.
| There is every reason to believe that
| tn Turks in Palestine are in a posi-
tlcn similar to that which the Teutonic
forces in Macedonia find themselves
Advancing French. British and Arab
FORCES appear to have enveloped q
large portion of the Sultan's armies
and to have broken the resistance OF
those which were not trapped along
the Jordan by the rapid progress OF
the allies along the coastal regions.
st. Quentin, the center of the Hin
denburg line between La Fere, on the
south and Cambria. on the north, APP
pears to be doomed. French units
have reached the Disc river between
vendeuil and Braveoy. while the Brit
ish seem to be in a position to launch
a blow along the line to the north OF
1.-THE city. which will make a German
retirement from the place imperative
Already st. Quentin appears to have
lost its tactical value to the Germans
The Somme canal, one of the int.
grail parts of the defenses of the city
is now under direct fire of the allies
guns while the railroad lines must be
under constant bombardment.
While the fighting on the Aisne
front has not been as spectacular al
that further north, the French are
maintaining their pressure against the
German positions just to the west OF
Chenin des Danes, the famous road
running along the crest of the hills
north of the Aisne which has been the
scene of terrific fighting many times
during the past two years.
/ In the far east the allies have beer
victorious over the Bolsheviki forces
and the Austro- Hungarian prisoners
\ of war who are fighting under the So
Wet standard. The city of Blago-
vestchensk on the Amur river, 375
miles west of Khat orovsk, has been
taken by the allies. Since Chita was
wrested from the Bolsheviki the al
lies have moved eastward 125 miles
and occupied the city of Nerchinsk
Along the American sectors OF the
front in Lorraine patrol encounters
and artillery duels have been report.
ed. Bad weather has virtually put a
stop to operations there for the past
few days.
Closer to st. Quentin.
London, Sept. 24.-British forces
are pressing in on St. Quentin directly
from the west, today's report from