The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-10-11

Il, and, at his right, General Joanna, {
In Champagne there was no marked |
change during the week. though both
the French and the Americans con-
tinued to move forward. The Yankees
were up against a hard proposition in
the forest Of Argonne. where the dense
woods were full of machine gun nests
and the fighting was almost like bat |
tie in the dark. This style Of warfare,
however, seemed to suit the Americans
and In broken groups they battled
their way onward. passing beyond
Cierges and always keeping in contact
with the retreating enemy. For miles
they were hampered by the scarcity of
roads, the mud and the innumerable
and bravely defended fortified shell
craters. They captured during the week
great numbers of guns and quantities
of material. including three big OBJ
servation balloons. On the left flank
of the Americans Gouraud's French
men fought their way northward with
the greatest intrepedity and cut off
munication with their comrades In the
Argonne forest region. If they can
keep up this advance the Huns In the
salient pointing towards Reims will
fine themselves in an awkward pocket.
The Germans In this sector were fall
ing back to the so-called Kriemhild
line, and captured documents showed
they intended to try to hold that line
through the winter. The fact is they
have no organized line OF. defense be-
tween II and the French border. The
Americans In Champagne as we'll as
those in the st. Quentin sector dis
played gallantry and dash that have
not been surpassed.
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The most spectacular exploit Of the
week was the raid on the Austrian
naval base at DuraZzO. American,
British and Italian warships made
their way through the mine fields and
completely destroyed the base and all
the Austrian vessels In the harbOr ex-
cept hospital ship. The only dam
age to the attacking force was the
slight injury of British cruiser by Il
torpedo.
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The Bulgarians in signing the armis-
tice submitted to every demand Of the
allies, which included demobilizing
their army and surrendering the con-
troll of all their means of trensporta-
ton, besides breaking entirely with the
other central powers. They even said
they were willing to attack Turkey, In
conjunction with the allies. Their
troops at once began withdrawing from
Serbia and all their military supplies
were turned over to the forces of the
entente. The internal situation In Bull
garia was somewhat confused. but the
claims of Berlin that King Ferdinand
would remain faithful to the centra
alliance seemed unfounded. However
! he evidently feared for his own safety
for he was reported to have taxer
refuge in a royal castle near Vienna
Naturally, it will be some time before
the allies can reap the full benefits o
the Bulgarian surrender in the way O
cutting across the corridor to Bag
dad" and isolating Turkey. Meanwhile
they continued the task of driving tn
Austrians and Germans out of Serbia
II, was said large number of Ger
man troops were sent to Sofia to tr
to force Bulgaria to retract her a(
ton, but these, If there, more likel
are to be used in defending the con
munication with Constantinople. Whe
the French, Serbians, Greeks and TIA
northward they probably will be jolne
: by great numbers of Southern Slav
/ and men of other races who have Ion
! waited for the chance to revolt agains
, Austria The way will then be ope
for an attack on the dual kingdoI
! from the south.
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Though not yet officially confirmed
5 there were various well authenticate
2 reports last week that Turkey ha
, informally sought for information q
: TO the terms on which she could max
peace. Her condition is desperate, &c
. General Allenby continued his victor
GUS progress III dicStihc anu
4 Tuesday occupied Damascus, the Turl
r ish base in Syria, taking more tina
2 1000 prisoners. With the British VIZ
: a portion of the army of Arabs of IL
e Hedjaz, now recognized by the allie
+ governments as co-belligerents.
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s Necessarily all this h I'd great effe
e in the Teutonic nations. The excit
9 ment in Berlin approached panic al
= the newspapers made no attempt
o conceal the gravity of Tie situatio
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