Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1918 — THURSDAY WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

THURSDAY WAR SUMMARY.

Marshal Foch’s F/anco-American armies have Punched k drive 'inajl easier spell great disaster to the Jerfrians and compel,the pick ew uatibn of nearly all ,of invaded France. Strikirtkln the. and Argonne regions, between the Snippes and tte Jbphffi a f <> approximately fifty irtilfes, the Fourth Army,' dAder Geh. has advanced Paris announces,/ while the" Americans under Gen* Liggett, operating on the' French right, have swept up the Meuse Valley and through the Argonne hills and fdrests for a seven; mile gain. Gen. 1 T&shing reports the capture of 5,000 Germans by the A Apparently expected the attack and 1 when ]t started. Evidently theHtteriipted to copy Gen. GouraUtFs tactics, by winch he‘ so successfully'stopped the drive feast of Rfieims last July. They succeeded in the withdrawal part, but it appears that the seddnd phase, the holding, failed to work out as well. It is probable that the Germans did not expert an attack on so wide a ffbnt and that this accounts for .the rapid progress made by Liggett s right wing. - < Paris dispatches state that the operations are under general command of ‘ Gen. Petain. It is believed that, the Americans, engaged Are not* detached from the First Army, east of Verdun, but are a part of the Second Army, in process of formation. The great menace of the drive from the German viewpoint is that if successfully pressed, it will cut communications between the armies in eastern and western France, it threatens to out-flank the Hindenburg line from the south, riiake probable the' fall of Laon and weaken the German resistance all the way to the North sea. , „ „ j Meanwhile, in the Balkans and Jn Palestine, t fresh troubles confront the German geneta! staff. In Macedonia the allied advance continues unchecked. ' French and Serbian troops have pressed beyond Veles and are driving on Uskub, capture of which would likely mean almost complete disaster for the Bulgarians.' On theright, British and Greek troops are pressing their invasion of Bulgaria. Thfe rout of the ©ulgtirtdiu# appfehrs. "from the ®Sr patches to be a greater disaster than Muekensfen’s defeat of the Serbians in. si 915. It is declared unofficially, that the whole Bulgarian army of nearly 300,000 men is in grave peril. In Palestine latest dispatches show that the armies of Gen. Allenby now have another Turkish army an a trap from which escape will be difficult.