The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-09-28

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Teutonic allied forces Ia Mace
laon ana Turkey sti are fight
fore the armies OF The entente,
while on the dglhly important st:
Es9uenfa IN sector France the British
and French rn1ies fftter hard fghtFFs
| irsa have ii avn more closely heir
Ines the stnent of the town
on The northwest, west and south.
EThe stubborn resistance of the Ger
mans in defense nd in ceunserat7;
Eefacks has been navailing except to
impede the pTeg The men Sof'
ne aTniess OF Field ~ Ia1slaal sEIaiggan
sensral Dsbeny
Macedenia BuIgarian and
81 froops are sti ~ faced with
Ser; s PaIesfine the Tesaainlng
ETI1rKs seem Is have scarcely a chance
Tor an escape from the Briftsh forces
ana niendiy ibesTnen who are clos
ins upon them east of the river
Jordan More han 70, 600 prisoners
zs5 guns have been n@by
The andl seneral Aalgnayss
appetite for nrther eIao1u o1uaaents for
hard canap psign slaass:2ao peen sat. st.
tISfisd seSs
anged1v The swfl sss Ode
fEsfrokes llenb;sT IS deligiering sit is his
purpose abso1ntely to overwhelnl The
ottornans. And the fulillmentFof his
plans seems appreciably nearer;
no less critical situation are the
Germans. and BuIgaIians in the Mace
donia theater. Here, except immedi-
dately on the Bulgarian frontier
where the mountainous country gives
them ground for strong resistance to
the invasion Of Bulgarian territory
through the passes the Bulgarians
and Germans everywhere are in rap
id retreat between the Italians, Ser
bians, Greeks and British. Rent N
twain at several points the enemy
forces are bewildered and operating
as separate units.
Respectively on the western and. and
eastern TANKS the Italians and the
EGreeks and British are fast throwing
Onward their lines in endeavors to
envelop The enemy, while in the
Peenter, where the Serbs have driven
their sharp wedge toward Ish.ip
theresis no tagging. Notwithstanding
the difficult territory that is being
encountered.
Rear guards Of the enemy, armed
with machine guns, are but little de-
laying the men whose task it is to re-
claim their kingdom.
AS yet there, is no news Of great
activity in Albania, but resumption
sof operations there in conjmlc- Ion
with those in the east apparently can
not long be delayed.
On the French front the British
have taken the village of Selency,
scant two miles erom the western en-
virons of st. Quentin, and both the
British and French troops north and
south Of this line have driven furth-
er wedges into the German front.
More than a thousand prisoners and
many machine guns have been taken
by. the British in these operations.
Numerous strong counterattacks were
delivered by the senemy, both at Sc
lency and Gricotrt, but Haig's men
put all Of them down with heavy
losses to the Germans.
The Germans have also reacted
SIfOuSly LII Lie ISS1Oll iyiuS WCSS, "
the Chemin- -des-Dames, endeavoring
to regain the territory held by the
French as menace against both
the Chemin -des-Dames- and the Laon
sectors. Here also the enemy was
beaten OFF.
Good weather has returned to the
American sector on the Lorraine
front but nothing has occurred there
except the usual reciprocal lombard
ments and a resumption Of aerial &C
tivity on a great scale. Advices from
Berlin are 10 the effect that there is
much perturbation in Germany over
the long distance guns of the
Americans, which are shelling the
areas behind the German lines. The
advices say that preparations are be-
ing made for the expeditions evacua-
tion of the civilians from Me.z and
other places within range when such
a move becomes necessary