The Benson signal., 1918-09-28
HUNS DEFEATED
ON ALL FIELDS
BRITISH ANNIHILATE MOSLEMS,
BULGARS NEAR COLLAPSE
GAIN VITAL POSITIONS.
BOMB CONSTANTINOpLE.
FRENCH WIN NEAR OISE RIVER
AND JAPS DEFEAT HUNS
IN SIBERIA.


Western Newspaper Union News Service
Paris, Sept. "a - French forces
fighting along the line south of st.
Quentin have reached the Disc river
between Vendeuil and Travecy, &C.
cording to. the official statement is
sued at the war office
Disaster has overtaken the Teuton
over all fields.
In Palestine the Turks are all but
absolutely crushed; in Macedonia the
entente forces are marrying their foes
and threatening them with similar dis
aster in France the British and
French troops slowly but surely are
German defensive positions, the col
lapse of which would result in import
ant changes all along the western bat
tie front, and in eastern Siberia the
Japanese have made additional strides
forward in the process of retaining
that territory for the Russians.
In all the theaters of the war the
entente allies have the initiative in
their hands and are pressing their adj
vantage vigorously. : The Germans
and their allies nowhere are able to
do more than stand on the defensive.
And in Palestine and Macedonia their
efforts in this respect have proved
sorry ones.
From north of Jerusalem to the sea
of Galilee, in the territory lying be-
tween the River Jordan and the Med
iterranean sea, the Ottoman forces
have been caught by the swift drive
of the British armies and virtually
annihilated Added to the heavy cas-
ualties suffered by the Turks, hOrdes
of them were made prisoner and many
more are. wandering, bewildered, with
out leaders, in, the hills, eventually to
be brought into swell the great total.
At last accounts more than $4,000 of
the sultan's soldiers and 260 guns and
British hands.
To add to the decentralization of the
Turkish morale, allied aviators are
carrying out successful bombing raids
against Constantinople.
Over front of eighty miles in
southern Serbia, from Monastir to
Lake Dorian, the entente troops are
. vigorously assailing the Bulgarians
and Germans. Already in the swift
drive in the center a great spearhead
has been pushed across the Istib-Pri-
lep road, severing communications be-
tween the Bulgarian army northeast
of Monastir and that in the Lake Dol
ran region Unofficial reports are to
the effect that the Serbs have taken
between 5000 and 10000 prisoners and
100 guns.
In the region between Monastir and
the Vardar the enemy troops are in
full retreat before the Italians,
French and Serbians, while west Of
Dorian the British are steadily ham,
mering their way forward driving the
enemy northward toward the Bulgar-
ian frontier Already the enemy line
from Dorian to point west of the
Vardar has been evacuated This force
of the enemy, with the railroad to the
north severed, seemingly is in danger
OF an enveloping movement unless it
turns sharply eastward and presses in
to Bulgaria through the mountains.
Not so spectacular, but of vital i'm
portance, have been the operations of
the French and British from the south
of St. Quentin to Cambria Both the
French General Debeney and Field
Marshal Haig have won highly essen
tial gsound in the maneuvers which
have as their detectives the oblitera-
ton of the Hindenburg line, the cap
ture of st. Quentin and the turning of
the German line at Laon. South of ST..
Quentin the French have advanced
their line to the west bank of the Disc
canal over front of three miles and
now completely outflank st. Quentin
on the south and La Fere on the north.
Meanwhile Field Marshal Haig, north
of st. Quentin, around the village of
Epehy, has taken strong positions from
the enemy.
In eastern Siberia the Japanese have
captured Blagoviestchensk, capital of
the province of Amur, and also the
town of Alexievsk Two thousand
Austro- German troops surrendered.