The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-10-11
Kaiser's Back Wall Has Fallen
and His Front Wall Is
Crumbling Fast.
HINDENBuRG LINE SMASHED
Bulgaria Surrenders Internationally
and Turkey 10 Wobblino-St. Quen-
tin and Damascus Captured
Huns Preparing To Get
Out Of Belgium.
BY EDWARD w. PIckARD

Tie kaiser put his back to q wall In
the vain effort to check the allies
on the western front. and the wall
collapsed. Bulgaria surrendered. prac-
tically Internationally Turkey at
once put out peace feelers; Austria
Hungary cried for cessation of the
war, and the Ukrainians rose In re-
volt against the Huns.
Meanwhile the allies kept up their
ceaseless hammering at the kaiser's
front wau-ths Hindenburg hne~-nnd
by smashing through II at many
points proved it was not the impreg-
nable system Of defense that the Ger
mans had supposed 1t to be. From the
sea to Verdun the battle blazed day
and night, and the official reports
showed an almost unbroken series OF
Victories for the allies. The Belgian
army. assisted by British troops and,
unexpectedly, by French army,
jumped into the fray at the beginning
of the week, and, taking Dixmude and
the important Wytschaete ridge, ad-
vanced swiftly as far as Roulers.
Thereupon the Huns began making
preparations that indicated complete
withdrawal from Belgium. North and
south of La Bassee canal they were
| in full fight, with the British close on
their heels, and as Haig's men APP
preached Lille the enemy began the
evacuation of that city, the German
commander requisitioning all means
| of transportation to remove his plum
der. Investing Roulers, the allies gain
ed control Of the railroad to the Ger
man submarine bases at 'Ostend and
Zeebruggee and 1t was reported the
foe was removing his heavy guns from
the Belgian coast and that the gov
ernOr general of Belgium had in
structed the provincial governors tC
send all their archives at once to Brus
sells
Armentieres and Lens were aban
,ioned by the Huns Tuesday night.
In the attack on Cambria the Brit
ish, with whom an American contin
gent was fighting, met with desperate
resistance and here and there suffer
ed local reverse, but they could no
be long checked and pushed ahea
with logged determination until the
had the city at their mercy. The Hun
burned vast quantities of stores II
their preparations for withdrawal
ID
Next to the south comes the s
Quentin sector, and there the Frenc
under General Debeney won grea
victory, capturing the city after trt
mendous fighting. which was fiercest i
and about the ST. Quentin canal. Thl
place was one Of the keystones OF tn
Hindenburg line and it's capture q.
sured the retirement of the German
on a wide front. Immediately north {
st. Quentin the British were engage
, by enemy reserves of storming trooy
| and the fighting was furious. But III
, British succeeded in breaking throug
the German line on the Beauvoir-Wiai
court front and created salient thu
, greatly helped in the capture of
! Quentin by the French.
, Between the Disc at La Fere an
the Aisne the French pushed on {
ward Laon and succeeded in passiI
Z beyond the elaborate system of waite
ways that comprised the chief defen
: of the enemy and reaching open cou
t try where the tanks could operate
8 advantage. North of Reims Focf
y troops drove the Huns back to the Ais
t and the AisneMarne canal, clearii
Q the country north of the Vesle and T
leasing number Of towns. They al
s2lned the entire St Thierry massif.