Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-28

UNDATED WAR LEAD By the Associated ss).-With the ! Welding of the armies of the en- tsnte into compact whole under [ command of the intr~-allied war
 council, guided by the master strategy of Marshal Tech. appar-
 ently has come the first break in the united front of the central powers.
 Bulgaria, smallest Of the Teu-
 to1ic allies, seems to hay, struck
 her colors.
 Premier MalinOff has asked fer an armistice to consider terms of peace Whether he is acting upon his own ! responsibility as the representative of revolutionary party or with The ap- prOval of King Ferdinand and the gov , ernment. remains in doubt In either cases. however. there is little doubt that Bulslria has ceased to be milf tary factCr in the war Her armies are in full retreat and her soil has been invaded
 Secession of The Balkan state from the thraldom of Germany will be aL most as severe a blow tO the Teu- tonic alliance as was the collapse Of Russia 70 the allies.
 If Eulgaria lays down her arms. Turkey. her armies shattered by the coup Of General Allenby in Palestine. will b. cut off from her allies Her lines of communication will be severed except across the Black sea through Rumania or over the mountain peaks cf Trarscaucasia into Russia where the ~riD of the Germar-confrolled BOI- shcviki is becoming steadily weaker
 With her supplies Cf German-made munitions and raw materials hanging hv such slender threat. militarv oh- servers believe The Ottoman emnira will have no course lrff but to follow tho eyamnie of her BaUlau neighbor
 Rut it makes little difference Co the entente whether the Turks abandon Germany and Austria IT Bulgaril quits he can no longer be a menace Go their plans
 The back door of Austria win stond Fiar before the victorious British. Frerch Serbians. Greeks and Itali@n armies plunring ahead through tha mountains of liberated Serbia Only 29o miles ahead Cf their advance is Fe'Cra6e. pcross the Danube. from the plains of Hungpry. They already havc pressed forward a quarter nf this dis tence since the great NacerdOuian of- fersive besan on September 14 Once over the river they wonlf he nassinc thrCu-N territCrv 0ccurieF bv che rn- p~ess0d uatioualities cf tuSiria who have little love for the dual empire and there would he no great natural obstacles between them and Budapest
 Far'v winter ir the Balkans with tho limited meens of communication available would Uresent. the most seri- GUS difficulty and one which could not he 0verrome before spring
 With the defection or Bulgaria it wCuld he necessary for hard pressed Austria Co throw an army across her southern frontier. thus making an- other serious iproad upon her waning man-pOwar. The bulk of her forces is facing the eager Italian army along Inc piavc @nd in the mountain regions Fmreror William has already called on Emperor Charles for help on the western front and Austro-Hungary di- visions are fighting beside the Ger mans against the steady advancing British. French and Americans. Italy still has large reservoirs of men and any weakening of the Austrian front To send forces to the other frontier of Inc empire probably would be the sig nal for a general attack to recover not >nly the invaded Italian territory but he Host provinces" as well
 With Bulgaria evidently fallen by