Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-28
Marshal Foch Causes Bull garia to Strike Her Colors
 After Battering Tactics
COUNTRY CEASES TO
 BE MILITARY FACTOR
Turkey Will Be Cut Off From Allies In Event Bull
 garia Throws Up Sponge
Associated Press Summary.)

Associated Press Summary.)
 With the welding of the armies of the entente into compact whole un- der cofmand of the inter allied war council, guided hy the master strate- gist of Marshal Foch, apprently has come the first break in the united front of the central powers.
 Bulgaria, smallest of the TeutOnic allies, seems to have struck her col Ors.
 Asks For Armistice
 Premier Malinoff has asked for an armistice to consider terms of peace.
 Whether he is acting upon his own responsibility as the representative of a revolutionary party or with the approval of Kinr Ferdinand and the government remains in doubt.
 In either case, however, there is lit tie doubt that Bulgaria has ceased to be a military factor in the war
 Her armies are in full retreat and her soil has been invaded.
 Secession of the Balkan state from the thraldom of eGrfany will be al- most as severe blow to the Teutonic alliance as was the collapse of Russia to the allies.
 If Bulgaria lays down her arms, Turkey, her armies shattered by the coup of General Allenby in Palestine will be cut off from her allies.
 Her lines of communication will be severed except across the Black Sea through Rumania or over the moun- tain peaks of Trans-Caucasia in Rus sia where the grip of the German con- trclled Bolsheviki is becoming stead ily weaker.
 Turkey Must Follow Suit.
 With her supplies of German made munitions and raw faterials hanging by such slender thread, military ob- servers believe the Ottoman empire will have no course left but to follow the example of her Balkan neighbor.
 But it makes little difference to the entente whether the Turks abandon Germany and Austria.
 If Bulgaria quits he can no longer be menace to their plans. The back dcor of Austria will stand aiar be- fore the victorious British, French, Serbian, Greek and Italian armies plunging ahead through the moun- tains of Liberated Serbia.
 Only 23O miles ahead of their ad- vance guards is Belgrade across the Danube from the plains of Hungary.
 They already have pressed forward a quarter of this distance since the great Macedonian offensive began on Sept. IA.
 No Big Obstacles.
 Once over the river they would be passing through territory occupied by the oppressed nationalities Aus tria who have little 16y1 for the dual empire and there would be no great natural obstacles between them and Budapest.
 With the defection of Bulgaria it would be necessary or hard pressed Austria to throw an army across her southern rontier thus making another serious inroad upon her waning man power. The bulk of her forces is nearing the eager Italian army along the Piave and in the Nountain re- zion.
 Kaiser Calls For Help.
 Emperor William already has call ed upon emperor Charles for help on the western front and Austro Hun garian divisions are fighting beside the Germans against the steady ad- yancing British, French and Aoleri- cans. With Bulgaria evidently fallen by the wayside, with Turkey stagger-. ing and with Austria in welter ot internal discord and discontent. the shaken armies of Emperor William are grudgingly falling back upon their own frontiers before the irrest- ible blows of Marshal Foch's British, French and American troops.