Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 313, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

There are strong indication* that th eTeutons plan an offensive in Macedonia aimed* at overrunning Greece, expelling the allied expeditionary army and establishing Üboat bases with a view to cutting off Britain’s communication with the far East. On the latter theater preparations for a Turco-Teuton drive under Von Falkenhayne, designed to reconquer Palestine and Mesopotamia, have been rumored for some time* Heavy artillery fire in Macedonia is reported. In the west, on the Flanders, Champagne and Verdun fronts, the German artillery was unusually ac tive during the last twenty-four hours. Field Marshal von Hindenburg c nt.nues strong pressure against the British line before Cambrai.Tht London war cffice reports a surprise attack near Bullecourt succeeded it. penetrating the British p-s.ti.m The invadbrs were driven out. French flyers have carried out an other successful raid over Germar soil, bombing Ludwigshafen, Frei-burg-Im-Breisgau and Neubreizach. Six more German mcahines have been bagged on the west front. During the past month sixty-seven German planes were sh"A down by the French, who lost only twenty-seven machines.