The Raymer enterprise., 1918-10-10
In Champagne there was no marked

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In Champagne there was no marked
change during the week. though both
the French and the Americans con-
tlnued to move forward. The Yankees
were up against hard proposition In
the forest Of Ar,onne. 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
Clerges 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 brayely defended fortified shell
craters. They captured during the week
great numbers Of guns and quantities
Of material, including three big OBJ
servatlon balloons On the left flank
Of the Americans Gouraud's French
men fought their way nOrthward with
the greatest intrepedity and cut Off
the Germans opposing them from COM
municatio9 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--alled Kriemhild
line, and captured documents showed
they intended to try 20 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 well as
those In the st. Quentin sector dis
played gallantry and dash that have
not been surpassed
ID
The most spectacular exploit Of the
week was the raid on the Austrian
naval base at Durazzo. American,
British and Italian wnrships 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
torpedo
The Bulgarians In signing the arms-
tice submitted to every demand Of the
allies. which included demobilizing
their army and surrendering the con-
troll Of all their means Of transporta-
tion, 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 central
alliance seemed unfounded. However,
he evidently feared for his own safety.
for he was reported to have taken
refuge In a royal castle near Vienna.
Naturally. 1t will be some time before
the allies can reap the full benefits of
the Bulgarian surrender In the way OF
cutting across the corridor to Bag
dad" and ls0lating Turkey. Meanwhile
they continued the task Of driving the
Austridns and Germans out of Serbia.
1t was said large number Of Ger
man troops were sent to Sofia to try
to force Bulgaria to retract her ac-
ton. but these, II there more likely
are to be used In defending the COM
municatlon with Constantinope When
the French, Serbians. Greeks and Ital-
ians have advanced far enough to the
northward they probably will be joined
by great numbers OF Southern Savs
and men OF other races who have long
waited for the chance TO revolt against
huslild. LIE way Will tleH ne open
for an attack on the dual kingdom
from the south.
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Though not yet officially confirmed,
there were various well authenticated
reports last week that Turkey had
Informally sought for information as
10 the terms on which she could make
pence. Her condition is desperate, for
General Allenby continued his yictori-
Gus progress in Palestine and on
Tuesday occupied Damascus. the Turk
ish base In Syria. taking more than
1000 prisoners. With the British was
portion Of the army Of Arabs of the
HedIaz, now recognized by the allied
governments us co-beligerents.
Necessarily all this had great effect
in the Teutonic nations. The excite
ment In Berlin approached panic and
the newspapers made no attempt to
conceal the gravity Of the situation.
The first concrete results we're the res