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Show AMERICANS TAKE 12 . TOWNS--5000 HUNS Salt Lake City. Utah, Sept. 27 S: a. m. Americans take twelve towns; capture 5000 Germans in drive; advance seven miles in battle. French and U. S. troops hurl enemy back by great new offensive in Champaign sector. Allies push for- ward on front extending from Suppe to the Meuse in the Verdun region. Yanks take over sector. Huns retreat before shell. Entente circles Bulgar forces. First army now in the Ochrida region is cut off by the Serbs, French and Italians. Unit must surrender or be wiped out. New objective of the Allies is town of Uskub. Allied advance yet un- checked. Serbs near town of Ishtib. Bulgar unrest worries kaiser. Total number of Turk prisoners to date is 45,000. The Sultan himself says he would favor a separate peace if he could obtain fav- orable conditions from the entente powers. British capture German trenches near St. Quentin with 1500 prisoners. Frankfort bombed, fifteen planes downed. Berlin denies Allied advance in Champaign. ' Epidemic halts draft progress; 613 9 new cases in army forces of influenza. Crowder cancels calls for entrainment of 142,000 Am- ericans for camp. Boston has 5000 cases. Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 27 4 p. m. Bulgarians hard pressed on all fronts. Seek armistice and peace, which is believed indicates revolutionary condition in Bui- garia. Americans and French begin new drive near Verdun captur- ing twelve towns, 5000 prisoners and advance on a front of twenty miles to depth of seven miles. Serbians take many Bulgarian and German prisoners and supplies, advancing from town to town. Brit- ish also start big drive. Reports state fighting on 275 mile front. Allies winning everywhere in the greatest series of battles in history of world. New government being formed in Russia, with first object to war on Germans. |