Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-06

Then followed series OF Bledge-
hammer blows on all portions Of the
front. all Hing into the general
scheme Of attack worked out by the
master mind of Foch. On August 20
Lassigny fell and the former Somme
front was restored. British and French
armies, aided by American units, con-
tinued the smash on the Somme front
and on August 80 the Germans were
hurled across the Somme. The British
took Bapaume and were close TO
Peronne. Roye fell TO the French and
dozens OF small towns were wrested
from the invaders. Further north the
British smashed the Hindenburg line
and forced the Germans to begin n re-
treat from the Jys salient.
On September u. the First Ameri-
can army, under the direct command
OF General Pershing. began brilliant
action which wiped out the difficult
81. Mihiel salient In three days. The
Americans took 10000 prisoners in
this action.
Serbian, French and Italian forces,
on September IS. launched big drive
against the Bulgars in Macedonia. Al
most simultaneously the British broke
the Turk lines In the Holy Land. The
Turkish army was shattered. and by
September 27 had lost 5000 men In
prisoners. In the meantime the allies
smashed the Hindenburg line along a
22-mile front in the 81. Quentin sector,
aud II was announced at Washington
that the United States now had 1,T50.-
900 men across the sea TO aid In crush
Ing the crumbllng armies Of the enemy.
The first decisive break in the ranks
of the central empires came on Sep
tember 81. when General Malinoff
commander Of the Bulgar armies
which were routed before the advanc
Ing Serbs and French. asked for an
armistice. On September 80 Bulgarii
accepted the armlstice terms pro
posed by the allies and SURRENDERED
Internationally.
Teutons Move for Peace.
Turkey moved for peace on October
4 and the German people were thrown
into n panic as they saw their allie
crumbllng. Prince Max. who had nov
become German chancellor. addressed
, a note 10 President Wilson. asking tina
steps he taken Immediately to conclud,
an armistice and to open peace neso
tiations. President Wilson answered
by asking whether he spoke for tn
people or the then rulers OF the empir,
and whether the proposal was base'
on an acceptance OF the presidents l.
peace points. Meanwhile the drive ol
the west 'front.' continued ana the Ger
mans were driven from much groun'
that they had held since 1914. Tn
Hindenburg line was smashed nt man,
points. Pershing's men broke the foe
main line OF defense west of the Meus
and after days Of bitter fighting clear
ed the Germans out OF Argonne forest
The Germans were forced to abandc
the Chemin des Danes and to retrea
on long line from Laon as far eas
as Argonne.
Germany sent another note to Pres
ident Wilson on October IL, acceptin
the intters IL peace principles an
urging the president to transmit II
proposal for an armistice to the allie
Prince Max assured the president ths
by reason OF constitutional change
the existing German government spok
for the people. President Wilson r,
piled two days later, rejecting the Gel
man proposals, declaring that any arm
istice must be granted by the militar
: commanders and must guarantee III
= continued supremacy OF the allie
! arms.
I The answer OF the allied armies
: the German peace proposals was
/. deliver still harder blows at the reti
. ing enemy. In the north the Belgis
. army, led by King Albert, eo-opera
. Ing with the British, began to swet
the Germans from the Belgian coas