Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-09-27
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On the ancient battlefelds OF Judea
the British, French and Arabs are driy.
ing the Turks pell nell back into Asia.
In the latest drive the allied troops
penetrated the Turkish lines TO q
depth OF twelve miles and captured
more than three thousand Turks
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 hostilites begun
against the Ottoman in Palestine are
in for further extremely hard usage
IN addition 10 the large number OF
prisoners taken great quantities. OF war
materials have fallen into the hands OF
the allied troops.
The predicament OF the Turks in Pal.
esiine is heightened by the operations
OF the Hedias tribesmen on the eastern
SIDE OF The Jordan, which will prevent
them from taking refuge across yhe
Stream il The Jordan valley and com.
iels hem 70 fight their way out OF
their 'rouble west Of the river as best
they may
Ten thousand Bulgarian prisoners
we're sent 70 he rear on September is
alone say he Paris Echo de Paris.
The pursuit o fine re;reating enemy
continues with great success.
Capture Of several villages and 5000
prisoners is recorded in the Serbian
official latemenr The Bulgar!ans are
burning their depots and. camps.
Efforts TO organize pillaging BY the
German army and the transportation
OF loot appear from official documents
and terrified Incidents to have been
much more effective than the work OF
carrying out ne removal Of leriti.
mate war booty during this summers
operations
An order found n he pocket Of a
German prisoner, signed by General
Won Marwitz throws light on the sub
jet Of pillagIng 1t condemns in So.
we're terms disorganized looting opera.
tons by soldiers on their personal ac.
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
I police
Both the British and French armies
in Picardy have materially developed
their plans for the eventual envelop-
ing of 81 Quentin and Cambria.
More than ten thousand prisoners,
and in excess of sixty large guns, fell
into the hands of the British during
the big operation begun by Field Mar.
shall Haig northwest Of St. Quentin
The Bulgarians are in flight in Mac.
edonla and are burning stores and
villages. The allied troops now have
advanced more 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, Melyntsa. 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 copy of the official journal
containing Premier Clemenceaus
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 telegraphe 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.
movement exceeding perhaps that
Of the Czecho-S lovaks Is being organic
ed by Polish officers TO form Polish
division to fight in Siberia westward
to their oppressed fatherland, as inte-
grail units in the American army
On the Doiran-Varder front the first |
and second line Bulgarian positions
have been captured by the allies over
a ten-mile section.
French troops, in their advance 10.
ward the Chemin-des-Da Danes, have
gained two.thirds Of mile on a two
and a half mile front northeast and
east of Saucy,
There are repeated rumors of pos
sible great attack by one side or the
other in the Vosges. Artillery fire
there has developed great intensity.
All reports indicate marked in
crease in the work Of airplanes along
all fronts.