Arizona republican., 1918-09-30

man base over which recently there has been so much fighting. The Cana dans are in the northwestern outskirts of the city. while naval division has reached the southern environs.
 South Of St. Quentin to La Fere the French have pressed forward their line and taken some 800 prisoners. Along the Chemin des Danes the French have advanced their line for distance Of two miles. capturing the highest position on the famous ridge. In Belgium, the Belgians and British | have driven forward and taken Dix nude, 10 miles from the North sea southeast of Nieuport. bringing their line into closer union with that in the region of Ypres. The capture of Dix
 nude, if 1t IS pressed for further gains eastward, will seriously affect the Ger man submarine bases on the North sea- French On AiIette River ls In unison with the attacks to the
 north, the French. along the battle | front north and northeast of Soissons.
 nave delivered fresh attacks under 1 which the Germans are in retreat north | or the Alsne toward the Ailette, indi- ! eating that the enemy line soon must | De feadJusted east, as far as Reims, if |
 not further, The French now are on | the banks of the Ailette river at the l western enc or the Chemin des Danes. | making il apparent that this strong
 delense line soon must be passed by | | in retreat northward
 In Champagne and northwest or l Nerdun, the Germans have sensed the |
 tuH seriousness of the situation fac | Ing them, where further advances bv | | the French and the Amrecians of ne- |
 cesslty will compel the readiustment |
 or the line from the north to the Swiss | frontier. Large numbers of reinforce l ments have been thrown into the battle | 1 Tn Champagne to halt the advance of | the French towarG. the important june | ton town of Nouziers but neverthe- less, General Gouraud's men have | pressed forward northward from the | region east of Reims to the northern |
 fringes of the Argonne forest. taking
 many positions of the highest strategic |
 value
 Sammies Sweep Down Mouse
 Meantime the Americans also have
 ac"anced their front, capturing Brieul-
 les-Sur Mouse and Romagne and at
 last accounts were progressing favor
 ably northward along the Mouse valley
 and to the east of the Argonne forest 1
 the turning of which. by the combined
 forces of General Gouraud and General
 Liggett seems probable within a short
 time.
 The Bulgarian delegates who are en-
 deavoring to arrive at terms with the
 allied forces, under which Bulgaria will
 quit the war, have arrived in Saloniki,
 but the Italian, French Greek, Serbian and British armies are keeping up their
 drive across southern Serbia and into
 Bulgaria. Krushevo. the Bulgarian
 base, 20 miles north of Monastir, has
 been captured by the Italians, in front
 of whom the Bulgarians are in rapid
 retreat. The Serbians have won the important mountain range of Plachko
 vitsa, south of Kochana, while to the
 east the British and Greek forces have ! taken further territory from the enemy in the region of Lake Doiran and across the border in Bulgaria.
 , In Palestine the victory over the . Turks is all but complete. Friday ' night General Allenby had counted
 50.000 prisoners and. 300 guns. The losses of the Teutonic allies on the western front since the allied of fensve began July IS, have been 200, ] 900 men made prisoner and 5000 guns, ] 20,000 machine guns and enormous quantities of material captured. l Gains Made Everywhere.
 The entente allied troops everywhere are continuing to make progress 2 agalnSt the forces or tne IeulOnlc all < liance.
 In Belgian, Flanders and France, :. material advances have been made on all the fighting fronts; in Serbia the U territory of the overrun kingdom is i, fast being reclaimed, while in Pales- tine the Turkish armies under the at tacks of General Allenby and the tribesmen of the king of the Hedjaz, , have virtually ceased to exist as fight 1. ing units. Additional large numbers | of the enemy have been made prisoners 2 and large quantities of stores have been captured.
 O Maintain Relentless Attacks. - Keeping up relentlessly their violent attacks from near the sea in Belgium
 to the region of Verdun the Belgian,
 British, American and French troops
 are fast driving wedges into the enemy
 line forcing him to retreat or defeating
 him in sanguinary battles. No rest is
 being accorded the Germans and ap- f parently their front is fast going to a pieces under the impetus of the allied V blows
 In Belgium, between Dixmude and d Ypres, King Albert's men have pressed
 back the German front from four to
 five miles and taken 5000 prisoners if Ground that the enemy had held since n the invasion of Belgium in 1914 has |, been restored to Belgian ownership e through the efforts of the mixed Bel i, gian and British forces, and at last V accounts the allied forces were well
 on their way to the important junc- {. tion town of Roulers.
 2 35-MiIe Front Penetrated. ', To the south from the region east of v Arras to St. Quentin the British, with = the Americans fighting on their right,
 everywhere have penetrated the Ger :. man defenses over the 35-mile front. ; Desperate resistance was offered by
 the Germans but the allied troops re-
 fused to be denied and swept through .e the remaining portions of the Hinden- '' burg line. and are standing. according
 to the latest reports, virtually on the . doorsteps of Cambrai. More than 1s.-
 900 prisoners have been taken in this y region since Friday.
 ' Under the efforts of the British, e American and French, the Germans q have been cleared out of the entire de- . partment of the Somme and part of l. the department of Ardennes. which is IS now in French hands for the first time