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Show ZEEBRUGGE AND BRUGES - ARE GAPXURED BY ALLIES IflKG ALBERT LEADS FORCES TO GREATER VICTORY . IH FLAKDERS Great Submarine Bate, Big Railroad Center and 8000 Prisoners Are Among Gain Reported for Day. . By Asseciatad Press. ' ' LONDON, Oct 18, via Montreal. Zeebrugie, the port of Bruges, ami tha second important Carman submanno base en tba Belgian coast, haa ba occupied by allied force. Bruges, eeren milea aouth of Zoebrugge, kaa bean eracuated by tha Germans, according to information received at tba Belgian army headquarter. ' . j . .-. . . By Aaseelated Pr. .. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FLANDERS, Oct 18 (Reu. tare). Belgian infantry force entered the city of Brugea today. i . By Asseeieted Press. ' AMSTERDAM, Oct. 18 Hug fire bar ben een in lU direction of Bruge,. report from Fluabing ay. Tba flame are spreading. - x . ' y Unit" Press. , ' K. - AMSTERDAM, Oct. 18. No German aubmarine bare iron to aea ainc Chancellor Mu'i armittice offer, according to unofficial ran art racaived- here today. ' "' ' By Unit1 Press. PARIS, Oct 18, Ili20 a. m. Turcoing and RoubaLx art reliably reported to bare been captured by allied troop. By Aseeelatsel Prsss. - LONDON, Oct 18. Tba Germane are preparing to inundate tba lowlying land aouth of the river Scheldt m eaatern Belgium, a Central Newa diapatch from Amsterdam report. Tba inhabitant have bean ordered to abandon their home immediately. By Asseslatsd Press. PARIS, Oct. 18. Lille, Douai and Ostcnd, three jrreat cities, have been delivered .from the enemy. This is the most rlorious day for the allies since the battle of the Marne and it fittingly , terminates a wonderful battle of three months, which was opened by General Mangin's victorious counter offensive on July 18. Many cities have been liberated and hundreds of square miles of territory retaken. The results have been splendid. But the victory in Belgium is not all. The British south of Le Cateau have broken into the German positions and now threaten the Hunding line. The whole German defense system eastward to the Meuse is in peril. . .. As thi first result of the forcing of the Germans back to the Ghent-Tournai-Valenciennes line during yesterday's fighting has been to sap the enemy's defenses before they have been able to reach them further south. Without exaggerating, it may be said that the prospects of the future are even more important than the actual results attained. The road to Brussels is open. According to latest advices, the French and Belgian armies are advancing rapidly towards 'Bruges, and Ghent. The capture of Ostend makes it possible to land rein- forcements and throw powerful force against-the extreme riht 4 of the German army. YANKaEES CULTURE 3000 HUN IvONDON, Oct. II. Tha Anglo-American attack yesterday between Bona la . and La Cateau carried them to within leas thsn a, mils of tha railway center of Wasaigny and shortened tha distance to tha vital enemy base of Hlraon to twenty milea j Caieati, was completely cleared of Germans. .Mora than 3000 prisoners wera taken In these operations. French troops cooperating on the Anglo-American right, mad Important advances along the Olse, mopping up more than half of tha Andigny forest, and penetrating to within two miles of (iulse. Further progress was msde by the French and Americans In tha Champegne-Argonne region. Tha Americana Improved their poaftions on both sides of tha Meuse. - I PURSUE FLEEING HUNS. j By Associated Prase.' LONION Oct. 18. X P m. Belgian cavalry Is pursuln tha retreating j enemy on the Flanders front today with tha object of cutting: off his retreat I to Ghent. The artillery la following swiftly and carrying out a vigorous 1 i bombardment with the same object. I j The town of Hlankenberghe. on tha Belgian coast southwest of Zeebrucga. I waa occupied by allied forces today. 1 Troopi in Serbia Moving From Nish By Aesaciated Press lX)Mi', Oct. II. Tba allied troops In Serbia Cflintlnue successfully their advance northward from Niah. A statement from tha Serbian war office announces that tha verba have captured cap-tured Knichevata. thirty miles northwest north-west of Nish. ! Lye river tha Brltlah ara continuing- i their advance on the whole front. Haig'a forces north of Cambrel captured cap-tured a number of villages and crossed c the iXiual-Denain road. Advancing northeast or I.I lie the British reached 4 a point within a mile of Turcoing, f Huns Now Moving j To the "Wilson Line" . by Asaocld-teaJ Press, LONDON. Oct. 11 Tha Dally K-preae K-preae refers to the German cessation of devastation In retreat as "another move to 'the Wilson line " x "tiermany's belated abandonment of tha practices of barbsrism la lha outcome out-come of allied protests." says tha Times, but It cannot be forgot tea that ' hundreds of towns and villages have been savagely wrecked. Tha wicked process of deportation also must eaasa and the unhappw people already carries, off must ba retaxood-" ' 8000 Germans . Taken in Day ' X By Aseeclated Press. LONDON, Oct. 11 More than 1000 prieoneia were captured by Field Marshal Mar-shal Haig'a forces yesterday In their offensive in the Bohan-La Cateau region, re-gion, tha British wax off ice announced t.edV. Between tha t$ensea sanal and thaj |
