Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-09-27
NEWS review OF
The Great WAR
Reorganized Serbian Army Starts
an Important Offensive on
the SaIoniki Front.
BULGARIANS ARE IN FLIGHT
franco-British Forces Closing Down
on ST. Quentin Despite Strong Re-
sistance-Americans SheIIing
Metz-Austria's Peace Suq-
gestion Promptly Re-
jected.
BY EDWARD w. PIckARD.

With regenerated and reorganized
army, Serbia took the lead last week
In smashing the Hun and his allies.
Aided by French and Greek contin-
gents, the hard-fighting Serbians struck
at the Saloniki front held by the Bull
garians and certain German units.
They struck hard, too, and within three
days had advanced II miles on a 20
mile front, taking 80 towns, including
the strongest of the enemy positions.
At first the resistance was stubborn,
but by Thursday the Bulgarians were
reported in full retreat and the Ser
biaEA pursuing them day and night
TIE enemT threw in fresh divisions,
Out in ,rain, for they too were COM
plafaey defeated. So swift were the
E1gSt and the pursuit that the SerbianS
tsad not had time to count the great
lumber of prisoners taken or to esti-
mate the quantities of material that
fell into their hands.
This Serbian advance by the end of
the week was seriously menacing the
city of Prilip, one of the chief bases
of the central powers in Macedonia. 1t
is not beyond the bounds of possibil-
ity that it may later be connected up
with the operations of the allies in AL
bania, of which little has been heard
lately. A good many authorities long
have held the opinion that the war can
be brought to a successful end soonest
byfa great offensive in the Balkan re-
gion, cutting off Turkey and Bulgaria
from their allies and threatening Aus
tria from the south.
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With the Franco-British pincers
slowly but surely closing down on st
Quentin, the French and Americans
in possession of the western end OF
the observation-disclosures and steadily
pushing toward Laon and the Yankees
firmly established on their new lines
in Lorraine, Shelling Metz and threat
ening the great iron and coal fields o.
the Briey basin, the German high com
mand last week was still clinging tt
the Hindenburg line through most O
| it's length. The Huns had massed vas
numbers of long-range guns and wer
resisting desperately, but their increas
ing dearth of man power was becom
| ing more evident daily, and the pris
oners taken, though well fed ant
clothed, were respondent and tired.
After several days of preparator.
operations Field Marshal Haig on Wed
nesday attacked on a 16-mile from
northwest of st. Quentin, from Gou
zeaucourt south of Holnon Wood. Be
fore nightfall the British had smashe
ahead to a depth of three miles, takin
Peiziere, La Verguiere, Epehy, Rons
soy, Villeret and other towns and bag
ging more than 5000 prisoners. TIL
primary object of the drive, which wa
made in hard rainstorm, was to gai
possession of the old British trenc
system Of last March, running alon
an important ridge. Many of the bes
fighting units in the German army yer
opposed to Haig's men, but the latter a
tanned their object in the main and 9
some points went further than ha
been expected. The artillery work {
the Germans, especially with high V,
locity guns massed behind the S
Quentin canal, was more severe tina
for long time before.
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simultaneously with Haig's attacl
the French hit the Boches on tel
| milo front SoI1tb of CT Oupnti0 advOn
ing more than a mile and taking fol
villages and hundreds of prisoner
Military critics express no doubt I
the ultimate fall of St. Quentin, bl
| +hn or,or,nu iS S1nro To NUT I'm q lon