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TOWARD ANTWERP.

TOWARD ANTwGRP.
wsstsra Newspaper Union News Service.
Basel, oct. fs.-Baren Barian. the
Austrian premier. has resigned. %
cofdiAS to Vienna nswspapers.
Copenhasen. OCT. 1D.@TAs Cseehs
are masters IN Prague, accordfAg 10 .
Berlin dispatch to the BerliASSke II
dsAde. Csech money 10 In circulatisa
and the Czech flag waves over HrsA-
schin castle.
The Belgian coast again il Belgian.
Gernany's dream OF an invasion Of
England acfoss tho North sea from
Calais = ended. Belgian FlanAsst =
fast being evacuated By the ea1.
and this line from the Belgian -
tisr to the Nsuse river grAAcna9H -
giving way under the attacks OF the
British, French aAd American armies
which are demanding to be served
with victory.
A haven Of safety in shorter and
more compact line 10 being sought ~
the 0Srmans IN order Do sseaDe -
initiation by their foes. Everyvhsrsi
they are being whipped. Bat seem
ingiy tAey are still tar from defeat.
In Bslgium the enemy IL Giving
ground hastily In order to bring his
armies -tafely out Of the trap which
menaces them.
Zsebrugge, Germany's secoaA great
suhnartne base ON the North -, has
gone the way Of Ostend. The nag OF
Belgium once more flies over 1t. To
the south. Bruges has been evacuated
and Turcoing. Roubaix and other
towns have been delivered. Out OF
the great sack between the North sea
and the Lys river the enemy il fleeing
fast in an endeavor to prevent cap
ture or internment In Holland.
His hope 10 that he will be able to
reach Antwerp and there reccnstitute
his line from the Dutch frontier
through Antwerp and Namur to some
Point in the south. probably Sedan or
Nets, and stabilize 1t. for the moment
at least. to tho Swiss frontier.
In France, scst of Lille to Cambria.
the British slowly but surely are press
ing forward, despite supreme efforts OF
the enemy to hold them, blstting out
the big salient which hes Toarnat ~
it, northern and valenciennss ~ its
southern enemy-held bases.
To assure the collapse of this sal
lent, Field Marshal Haig. within
whose forces arc brfSaded men from
the United States. 10 driving hard
along the Bohain-le-C -Cateau fort in
mansuvsr which II meeting with sue
GEES and throwing valenciennes into
dangerous pocket. s-s
To the south, In the sack between
the Oise and the Serre rivers. north
Of Laoa. the Germans slowly are with
drawing toward Hirson. with the en-
emy impeding the allies progress with
strong rear guaras.
Likewise in Champagne, the Ger
mans are offering strong resistance
against the French and Americans In
their attempts to drive porthward to-
ward Mexieres and Sedan. The French
nevertheless have been able to cross
the Aisne river near Vousiers and thus
have made more secure the positions
Of the Franc0-American forces In the
valley Of the Aire At Grand Pre-.
To the east the Americans on both
sides Of the Meuse river are slowly
going forward. Between the great
wooded bastion and the Mouse picked
troopS have been chosen to fend tho
blow northward toward Sedan. All
the ground that IL being won II being
vafiantly defended to the last.
In tho Nacedonian theater the
Greeks arc now in full possession Of
Greek Macedonia. Albania ID fast BE-
ing cleared Of the enemy and in See
bla the Teutonic allied forces have
been driven thirty miles north Of Nfsh.
In syria the Victorious forces of Gen.
eral Allenhy now are meeting with
scant resistance.
| Amsterdam.-The Handelablad Dub-
lishes with reserve . report thst the
German admiralty has issued wireless
Instructions to all submarines to re-
turn to their bases. Dlspatches from
Berlin indicate strong anti-Wilsen
rtaadsacy, not only in military quar-
tsrs but also in those which have fa-
vorsd peace.
Million OsitoNe Lest In war.
London.-Up to the present nearly
.00O, 900 British lives have been sscrf-
feed In tho war, according to informa-
ttion received by Rsater's Limited.