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Show piijiiiij Ijmi i: IvWiJ' ul.o jUiiiiri DISASTER Armies of the Kaiser in Palestine, Macedonia, France and Russia Are Meeting Reverses. Initiative Is Wrested From Central Powers; Allies Are Relentlessly ! Pressing Advantages, Disaster haa overtaken the Teuton ovr i all fields. I j In Palestine the Turk arc all but absolutely ab-solutely crushed; in Macedonia the entente en-tente forces are harrying their foes nnd threatening them with similar disxster; In France the British and French troopa slowly, but surely, arc eating their way into the vitals of the German defensive positions, the collapse of which would result re-sult in important changes all along the western b.-Utlefront, and in eastern Siberia Si-beria the Japanese have mado additional strides forward in the process of reclaiming reclaim-ing that territory for tho Russians. In -all the theaters of the war the entente en-tente allies have the initiative and are pressing their advantage rigorously. Tho Germans and their allies nowhere are able to do more than Mand on the defensive. And in Palestine and Alaccdunia their efforts ef-forts in this rcsnnct have, proved sorry ones. BRITISH WIPE OUT FORCES OF SULTAN. From north of Jerusalem lo the Sen of Galilee, In the territory lying between the river Joixlan ana (ho Mediterranean sea. the Ottoman iorovf have ben caught by the swift drive of thn British armir and virtually a nnihflatcd. Added to the-heavy the-heavy casualties suffered by the Turks, hordes of them wero made, prisoner and many more are wandering, Itowildered, without leaders, in the hill:-, eventually to be brought in to awM the ntn total. At lawi accounts more than 25.000 of the Pintail's Pin-tail's soldiers and 2tJ0 gii ns a nd c rge quantities ot war frtovcH w re in J-irltiak ha nds. To add to the drrnora lin 1 ton of (he Turkish morale, allied aviators .ire carrying car-rying out Hiicee ?M 'ul bnnibhiK rajdn aga I nwt Const an I in 01 tie. ENEMY RETREATING BEFORE SERBIANS. Over a front o:" eighty mMs in snuih-ern snuih-ern S'-rbi,, from .VJona-st fr to Iilte I m-ran, m-ran, th cnierit troops are vlcorour'ly a:;-Ha'ilting a:;-Ha'ilting the Bul'ariann and Cermann. Alroa oy in tie , w I f t d r i v in the center a great bp'-arbead hm U-eri purhed iu rw the Inil.t-l'ril' p road, severing coinrniini-cn coinrniini-cn linns bet ivp. n ih- Htdgarian army nort hc;i st of .M ona ; tir a nd thr.t in t ho IaKe Doiran region. L'nnl'ficial ri ports are to tbe cffe. t ih;U tbe S rl have tak' n be; we" n :ufj0 a nd J ",0fi0 jm"! sorter 1 a nd 1 .0 ;:iir . In tljp reJon F!W"'fi MonaM'ir and the VnnUr the enemy iroup'- are j n full v- tr'at b' rov tbe Italians. l"rcTi"ii atnl Vs 1 -bi r::-. v'i)i v.e.i 0.' I"ic5r'i thr Brit, ih np.- i-teariil ! : ,1 ; 1 1 ni'-r : r ttn-ir wry forward. for-ward. dri"i;'C th" enHi ror t h u-;i r d In-ward In-ward the Bulgarian froniirr. Alr-e;,y 1 i) "i-iiiV ti: 1 torn I oii a M to a )Or.. v". f.f ;r(f- 'rii;.T' b; n t ' ; u;i t d. Chi-: fnr'( Ft- e:ieniy( with raM'Tjjid i j,i Hi north sev-Mil, e 1 m ri u ly is in d:jn-CT d:jn-CT ejf ;i n (,ri" e'or 1 i ng j r a v- if n t 11 n ?:?. it. I'irm .'- i,;i rjily ! v. ,i rd ami T't- -net; into Biilgaria ' broi.pli the fnoun t a i n. ST. QUENTIN IS DOOMED TO FALL. Not -'-"o ne-Liifi.la r. bu I OI iril al Irw-pn-i;i r,r c. , e t-e fi t h f dp r;il (mn of the f're;(. b and P.rififb from the fo,nh of St. Q'l't'.in t'r ( 'arnbra i. Bo' b the Kr"ncli Grerl ,ft.;.-y and Mr. rvb.J M.i.z bn won V ;:h r s -en) :a ! r. .11 nd In 1 ne inn ii" t-'-'., '!-.!'h Ii;..'- a- 1hrn- ol-ic-t:v''S ihe rbiil"r.i 1 ion of tit- II i r.d.-Tii m i-e.' line, il-o e;ip(urr. r.f S. fji; ntin and iV,r. COofittntiod Oil PaiA I'tmui , KAISER BEATEIM UPON FOUR FRONTS (Continued from Page One.) turning- of the German Ur.e at "Laon. South of St. Quentin the French have advanced the'r lire to the west hank of th Ois canal over a front of three miles, and now completely outflank M. Quentin on the south and La i'ere on the north. .Meaanwhlle Field Marshal Haiff, north cf St Quen'in. around the village of Epchy. has taker: st.-on? . positions from the, en-jniv. In eastern Siberia the Japanese have cantured Rlasoviestchensk. capital of the province of Amur, end also the town of Alexievsk. Two thousand Aus'.ro-Cier-man troops surrendered.. , - |
