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VOLUME XX.
25,000 TURKS CAPTURED AND 40,000 TRAPPED
HUNS REPORTED EVACUATING CAKWAI
BULGARS AND GERMANS IN DISORDERLY REIpT
' WOMEN TO REPLACE
MEN IN PLACES NOT
ESSENTIAL TO WAR
■ Each Board Will Soon Publish
Lists of Industries in Com
munity Where Woik Can Be
Done by Women
WASHINGTON. Sep; 33 —Machinery
designed to force men out of non-es
sential employment and muster women
vs the nation to take their places was
put in motion today by I.VOv community
tabor boards reach.ng into every section
of the country.
The boards are acting under detailed
instructions from the government work
ing through the United StAtes employ
ment service.
Each board will .-oon publish lists of
industries in its locality in which men
should be replaced by women. The
lists will be based on surveys of ail in
dustrial plants in each board s district.
The surveys will be minute. Each job
will be studied to determine whether a
woman should nl* it.-
Power of Employment
Publication of the lists is expecteu
to cause employers to comply and sub
stitute women as a result of the moral
pressure thus exerted. Where moral
pressure fails, stroncr measures may be
undertaken. The employment service,
working through *he war industries
board, has power t oshut off the supply
of raw tnaterialsq£-om any plant.
This move is a result of the enlarged
army program under which 4,«0').0db
man will be sent to Erance by neat
June.
; It is expected to weed out of non-es
sentia! employment every man in the
nation. The corollary Is the probable
induction of hundreds of thousands of
women not only into non-essential war
industries but into munition factories
as well. Officials say the number of
women may run into rftllions. The
womgn are imperatively neeoed to in
sure an adequate supply of material
and munitions to the lighting men in
France. Because of the nation-wide
labor shortage, the munition program
faces serious delay This is made plain
tn the instructions to local boards sent
out by the employment service.
"To the extent that we fall behind in
the supply of material, we shall have
•» make up the deficit ’rom the living
bodies of our young men.’’ read the in
structions "This is i:ot rhetoric. I;
;s precise < old military calculations.
"As soon as the facts are realized,
Americans in going to cease carrying
on business as usual and swarm into
war work.” x
‘■Xoa-Esaennal”
The use of the term of "non-essential
employment ',in the instructions to cora
munity board- has a special signifi
cance Although a man is working in
a munition factory and even is making
shells he still may be classified as a
•non-essential worker” This will oc
cur when the community board’s sur
vey shows that man’s job can and
-hould be filled by a woman.
The program then, really means the
women of the nation are to be muster
ed to help turn cut the shells with
which our so’dters wiy blast tneir path
toward Berlin V
in making the surveys, the beard will
emphasis on th** job z;td not. on the
industry as a whole.
The employment service whieh now
has a corner on all employment in the
United States will assume reoponsibil
tty for listing and iillinp with women
the jobs which its community boards
pass on.
Every precaution will te taken to
_-K«ard the health and safety of the wom
en workers. Two women members will
be added to the personnel of each ccm
monity board Boards are composed of
representatives of both employers and
employes.
a— — —
Machine Guns at Police
Stations, Result of Riot
NORFOLK. Sep: ‘-T- As a result of
the riot in 'he pcg>-o section of tK city
Saturday night, machine guns may he
nstalled in each o' ’hr four police sta
tiope. Police Chief W. I*. Ford stating
that the matter had been suggested tc
him and was receiving consideration.
/ Sergeant White police chauffeur
P. Pau! and several rioting were
injured when a mob attempted tc stem
the second precinct police station. The
attack followed the arrest of a colored
soldier. Five or six negroas wer.
sVghtly injured, and their •w-ualtte
would undoubted!:- have been heavier
jut for the fart that the police officer
.lred over the heads of the mob. There
were no arrests made.
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SHOT AND SHELL ARE
PREPARING m FOB
ALLIED PEACE TERMS
I
I Fighting on Western . Fronts
and in Eastern Theaters All
Part of Comprehensive Plan.
Turkey s Dooi/ Sealed
WASHINGTON. Sept. C“. Shot and
shell and mat.-power are enforcing ir.
• advance some of the allied terms of the
■ reace taole.
Til s meaning was placed here today
’ey war authorities on the trend of
, some of the recent allied lighting. And
tiiis development is destined to become
more marked as the days pass, say the
’ authorities.
Alsace-Lorraine, wrested from France
in 18'0. will be returned by force of
: arms. Deigium appears destined to be
freed. Turkey, in Europe, will be shoved
out of civilized company and forced back
to Asia. A neutralized Bjspho-us and
Dardanelles will give free passage for
Russia and other craft into and out of
the Black sea. And. whai is perhaps
as important as anything will be the
treeing of mill ons of Slavic people
Ifrcm the galling yoke of Austria-Hun
gary
Force in East. Too
"Force without stint’’ is to be applied
! not alone on the west front but in the
1 theaters of the east.
And while General March, chief of
staff, and other war leaders insist that
victory will come on the west front, it
is quite evident now that the allied
strategy and diplomacy proposes to
have the eastern situation in such
shape that enforcement of allied-Amer -
ean terms be mainly a matter o'
asking and receiving.
The American drive for Conflans and
• Metz will tear out of Teuton himds the
control of rich mine districts and will
free Alsace-Lorraine. When that move
- develops to its height, the retirement
of the tierman toward his own border
farther north will be a pressing neces
sity. This will mark the beginning of
freedom for Belgium
To Wipe Out Turkey
The Rritish-t*erb-Freneh-Greek Mace
donian drive is regarded eventually des
tined to cut Turkey off from her Teuton
ally and out her off the European map
r or all time. Rumanfa is likely to be
freed for further fighting. And there
is even a chance of linking a line north
ward to Poland. Mountainous country
makes this very difficult, hut if it
can be done. th“rc will be a double
ea«t«rn front. The main eastern front
for which the allies are now striving
will formed by a junction of the al
lies lighting southward from the Arch
angel region and the Czecho-Slovaks
fighting northward in the Samara re
i gion.
With Turkey eliminated, it will te
possible for Russia to have the free
outlet from the Black sea. for which
she and other allies have long con
; tended.
The Macedonian push is tending to
accomplish the double purpose of elim
inating Turkey and freeing Jugo-Slavs
-nd other Slavic folk. The dag
ger now points toward . Sofia. , If tlia’
. can hr leached, the Teuton structure
in the near east will have crumbled.
As for the brilliant Palestine cam
paign. It is pointed out that this is re
moving very effectively the old buga
•oos of a road to the east, a drive
against the canal and so on. Tur
key is left already in desperate straits,
and it would no’ be ttirpnsing if she
and Bulgaria were found suing for
s»p;.rate peace before the main peace
conference assembles.
Girl Who Eloped With
Soldier Commits Suicide
STOCKBRIDGE. Ga.. Sept 23.—Police
throughout Georgia and the south who
have for some days been seeking C. D.
Hood, a soldier, and Miss Gertrude Hin
ton. aged seventeen years old. doubled
their efforts to hud the '’ormer Mondav
when it was learned that the girl had
committed suicide at San Antonio. Tex.
Miss Hinton’s father. \V. J. Hinton,
received a telegram from the police of
San Antonio Sunday night announcing
:hat his daughter had tjiken her own life
in ’hat city. He immediately made ar
' rangements to have the body returned
here.
Miss Hinton, it is alleged, left hpr
home wth Ho«<d Sunday a week ago.
supposedly to visit a friend At tha’
• time Hood was supposed to h£ a single
man hut after the couple faired to re
turn and an investigation was begun, it
developed according to the authorities,
that Hood had a wife and children living
near Carrollton. Ga.
<
Bulgarian Press Is
In Favor of Peace
ZURICH. Sept. 23.—The Bulgarian
press is unanimously in favor of peace,
according to information obtained here
■ today.
"It is hiffh time to listen to reason.”
’ declared the Sprepero.
‘The success of the enten’e in France
. cannot be denied,” the Vir says.
"For accomplishment of peace,” says
i, the Narod, "it is necessary that the
period of negotiations which are on the
• I verge of beginning, shall be terminated
. as quickly as possible.'
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U. S. TROOPS MAKE
SUCCESSFUL RAIDS
AND BOMB TOWNS
with the - AMiinn’ANS on the
METZ FRONT. Sept. 23.—American
troops made three succestiful raids on
this front early yesterday, taking more
than thirty prisoners ami inflicting con
siderable losses on the Germans. The
; rjncipal raids were rcad<* in the region
of Haumont-les-I.achausec (five miles
nctihwest of Thiaucourti. The Ameri
cans threw a barrage close about the
village, cutting off tgte enemy' eommuni
vatlons. Our infantry dashed inio the
box thus created. They encountered a
number of Boches. killing and wounding
more than fifty. They’ brought back
twenty, who after severe
hr-nd-to-hand fWhting in the streets.
Simultaneously' another American
uKit southeast of Cbarey (four miles
east of Haumont) raided German out
post trenches, bringing back six sur
prised Boches.
Earlier in the morning east of Hau
mont. American troops raided enemy
trenches, encountering stiff opposition.
Braving a heavy German barrage, they
captured five Boches and . inflicted a
number of casual lies
Patrols report ’hat the Germans are
busily digging trenches and building
gun emplacements and dugouts ,n this
region, especially' near Don# mart in-le-
Chaussee <a mile and a half northeast
nf Charcyl. Artillery is intermittently
active along the whole Metz front. The
enemy is using gas and incendiary
shells.
American aviators have dropped
eighteen, tons of bombs on airdromes
and railway connections, observing suc
cessful explosions and fires. Recently
the nights have been exceptionally;
clear, in spite of cloudy’ days. A n.ght
reconno'ssance i.quadron has been or
ganized which has proved highly sue-,
cessftil. Flying at a low altitude in the,
moonlight they have been enabled to ?
make accurate reports of the German
movements and artillery positions. The
night observers encounter no trouble
from German anti-aircraft guns which]
arc una’ole to fi p e accurately enough at
night to hamper the machines. The ob
servers have added to the effectiveness
pf their work by dropping bombs and
directing machine gun tire against mov
ing enemy troops.
ILERJLIN SATS YANKTE
ATTACK WAS KAI.TED
DERI.IN. via London. Sept. 23. —Re-
pulse of a -trong American attack yes
terday on a front of more than five
miles r.etween Haumont and Rembct
cour.t. nas reported by the German
war office today.
Artillery furhting so increased on the
whole front between the Lorraine
heights and the Moselle, the statement
said. Afterward the Americans ad
vanced in strong force toward Hau-1
mont. and south of Damptivoux <a
mile cast of Haumont» and Rembert;
court 'five miles cast of Haumonti.
They felt their way to the German posi
tions where they were repulsed.
German troops advanced their lines
slightly just west of the Moselle.
Staff dispatches from the American ;
front state the Americans made three ;
successful raids in the Haumont
vesterday morning.
AMFRICAJCS CAJUIT OUT
RAIDS IN METZ SECTOR
WITH THE XMETHCAN ARMY TN
FRANCK. Sept. 22. (Reuters) Amer!- 1
can troops raided the enemy lines in '
the neighborhood of Haumont village]
In the center of the new line across the
ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1018
50-MILE ADVANCE
AGAINST TURKS IS
NEW WAR RECORD
BT J. W. T. MASON
I NEW YORK? Sept. 23.—General Allen
by's remarkable advance through the
plains of Sharon to Nazareth has cover
ed over fifty miles in two days fighting,
the record for the present war.
The British are now within Seventy
five miles of Damascus, the capture of
which is certain if the present disin
; tegration of the Turkish focees con
tinues. Once at Damascus, General Al
lenby can begin to make plans for unit
i ing his own force with the British army
I in Mesopotamia, which is working its
> way northwestward along the Euph
-1 rates. This army has as its objective
i the capture of Aleppo, where the Con
stantinople railway joins the Bagdad
! and the Damascus lines.
From Damascus, General Allenby, too,
will advance toward Aleppo. It will be
■ possible for him to. get into touch
■ with ihe British Mesopotamian opera
tions'immediately at Damascus by the
(f use of cavalry. The Arabian desert,
(which now separates General Allenby’s
i force from the Mesopotamia expedition,
loses its density north of Damascus,
; perm ttirtg the two British armies to
. unite under a single strategic direction
for the approach to Aleppo
Genets 1 Allenby is now less than
300 miles from Aleppo and has covered
half the distance from Suez to that ma
t jor Turkish railway center. The extra
' ordinary speed of General Allenby's
advance from Jaffa to Nazareth last
week indicates that the second half of
the journey will be out of all propor
tion to the first in rapidity of accom
; plishmont. •
, With British armies in possession of
Al&ppo, the nearby port of Alexandret
;ta will certainly be seized. Thereafter
< a major campaign may be begnn for
,| ’he capture of Constantinople through
■ Asia Minor.
With Alexandretta in possesison of
the allies, troops could easily be land
-1 cd there, ready to move along the Alep
, po railway leading across Asia Minor
into Constantinople. The distance to
:>e covered is about ' S«i) miles. This
sounds like a stupendous undertaking
but with a demoralized Turkish army
in opposition the possibility of success
exists. Certainly the mere threat of
so gigantic art x accomplishment would
work havoc with the morale of the pan
-1 Germans.
FROST EN CKATTAWOOGA
LYERLY. Ga.. Sept. 23.—This section
is passing through an unseasonably cold
snap, which has caused the farmers and
gardeners considerable anxiety. All day
■ last Friday’ a slow drizzling rain fell,
but in the evening the clouds passed
away, the temperature dropped and
( early risers Saturday morning declared
1 there was plenty of frost and some Ice
In low, and unprotected places. This is
' the earliest frost reported in this sec
tion in many years.
' fit. ' Mihiel salient, last night. They
captured 25 prisoners. One unit attack-
■ed Haumont itself. It had sharp fight-
I ing in the village, taking twenty prison
i ers and killing and wounding some for-
Ity more Germans. The prisoners were
members of a Jaeger battalion formerly
j stationed at Metz.
American patrols have discovered
1 enemy trenches and a machine gttne em
placement south of Dommartin which
is in the Krietnhild line. The enemy
I continues work all aioag this fronL
'SERBS CAPTURE
10,000 TURKS, ON
BALKAN FRONT
NEW YORK, Sept. 23. — (Summary of European War Cables.} —Disaster’threatens the armies;
of Bulgaria and Turkey on the battle fields of Macedohia and Palestine. Allied forces are press-1
ing with vigor their successful campaigns against Uie two lesser members of the Central powers. In
Palestine General Allenby virtually has wiped our the enemy forces opposing him. He has captured
more than 25,000 prisoners and 260 guns, and continues to push forward between the Jordan and
i the Mediterranean coast. Forty thousand other Turkish forces are trapped and cannot escape.
Allied (Successes in Macedonia have resulted n the driving of a breach between the eastern and'
.western flanks of the German-Bulgarian forces whose main lines of communications have been cut.,
(The Bulgarians are in full disorderly retreat between Monastir and the Vardar. Ten thousand Bui-;
garians and 120 cannon have been captured.
On the west front the French have captured he town and fort of Vendeuil, nine mites west of I
St. Quentin and the British have made farther progress to the north of that important Germa 1
stronghold. ’ .
The Germans are reported evacuating Cambrai and moving the civil population to Mons,, accord
ing to the Paris Temps. The civil evacuation of St. Quentin was reported last week.
. .
FORT VENDEUIL IS
TAKEN BY FRENCH; i
BRITISH ADVANCING
NEW TORK. Sept. 23. —(Summary of j
■ European War Cables to the Associated ,
Press.)—On the western front the Brit- |
ish ai d French are progressing success- ]
i fully ir. their encirclement of St. Quen- I
' tin. The French have seriously men- ]
! aced the Germans by the capture of Fort i
Vendeuil. nine miles south-southeast of
' St. Quentin.
The Paris Temps declares today that !
the Germans are evacuating Cambrai, 1
ending the inhabitants to Mons. The ■
civil evacuation of St. Quentin was re-*
I ported last week.
About St. Queni in the operations are'
.' centered on the towns of Vaudeuil and '
; | Vendhuile. The French after capturing i
■ the town and fort of Vendueil pushed ;
on to the Oise river and as a result have '
, driven a sharp salient into the Germaui i
'! defenses between St. Quentin and
Vandeuil is one of the more distant ■
outposts of and is the most itn- ;
■ portant point on the. Hindenburg linei
between St. Quentin and iAI-ere. Its I
capture places the French on the west j
bank of the Uise and in a position to]
cross the Oise canal and carry out the |
1 encircling of St. Quentin from the south
and east.
Venhuile is nine miles north-north- =
, west of St. Quentin and on the Schaldt ;
canal two mile?\ west of Lecatelet. I
■ Northwest and southwest of the town
the British have captured German strong
points and rapidly are closing in on it .
! i from three directions.
Farther north Field .Marshal Haig's
1 men ha' e carried out a successful Iccal
'attack south of Villers-Guislain. taking
’ 100 prisoner.?. In a local operation i
T northeast of Arras the British captured
Sixty prisoners southeast of Gavrelle ;
and tfiade some progress.
1 Along the .American-held sectors of j
'i the front, there have been many patrol!
! encounters, but nothing approaching a
' general action has been fought.
The same is true of the mountain ;
J front tn Italy. An official report issued
[at Vienna indicates that a Czecho-Slo-'
■ vak detachment was annihilated dur- ]
| ing a raid by Austrian troops in the;
J Dosso Alto region. same statement |
! says that Italian attacks tn Albania'
! have been reoulsed.
CAMBRAI being evacuated.
ACCORDING TO PARIS REPORT
PARIS. Sept. 23.—The Temps de
i Clares the Germans are evacuating ’
' Cambrai, sending the inhabitants to
j Mons.
French troops yesterday and last!
night made notable, progress in their!
drive for the encirclement of At. !
Quentin. They pushed in far on the
south and captured <he village and fort i
' of Vendeuil. close to the Oise, nine !
! miles southeast of St. Quentin, today's !
war office announcement snows.
From Vendeuil th * Frenen pushed
; on to the North of Ly Fontaine !
they penetrated the wood in the di
rection of Hina court
"North of Ly-Fontaine our troops pen
etrated the wood toward Hinacourt.”
the communique said.
x “We captured the village and fort of
' vendeuil and pushed on as far
i Oise.
I “North of the Aisne and near Butte ]
du Mesnil we took some prisoners.” |
bf.bj<xn admits
BRITISH ADVANCE
BERLIN. Sept. 28.—(Via London > —(
British forces to the east of Epehy, ■
southwest ’of Cambrai, yesterday ob- i
tallied a footing in section of the Ger- ;
trenches, says the official state
ment issued by the German general i
headquarters stuff.
•‘British attacks south of Epehy were I
repulsed by troops of the Second guards, i
Prisoners were taken in a local raid j
south of Neuve Chapelle,” the state- j
ment added.
“The British obtained a foothoid in j
isolated sections of trenches east of l
Epehy.” i
SERBIANS CUT TWO
MAIN LINE ROADS;
NOW NEAR BORDER
; PARIS. Sept. 23. (Havas Macedonia*
’Entente allies’ cavalry yesterday was
! thrfee miles from the Bulgarian frontier ’
| in the region of Strumitsa, according to i
nows dispatches received here Joday
[ from the Macedonian front. The Elev
enth German division was reported to
■ have been cijfr- off from the main Bui- i
garian army and to be retreating in dis
order.
The news dispatches say the First
Bulgarian army in the region of Mon
j astir and Prilep has been cut off from
communication with the Second army in
j the Doiran sector.
The .Franco-Serbian troops are pursu
ing the Bulgarian army, which is in full
; retreat. The entente allies now com
( mand the mountain zone, from which
' they will be able to debouch in the
10.000 BULGARIANS
120 CANNON CAPTURED
LONDON. Sept. 23.—(5:30 p. m.) —
. The Serbians have captured between
! nine and ten thousand prisoners and
! 120 guns, the Evening Standard says
; it learns.
plains.
I GREAT VICTORY OF SKRBS
OYER TELE BULGARIANS
i NEW YORK. Sept. 23.—(Summary of
I European War Cables ot the Associated
j Press.)—Serbian and allied troops in
central Macedonia have dealt the Ger
i man and Bulgarian communication lines ■
' blows that are expected to bring about ;
1 a complete readjustment of the enemy j
positions in the Macedonia theater of
operations. The important railway
' lines from Uskub to Saloniki and from
Gradski to Prilep have been severed and ’
the enemy forces around Lake Doiran
and north of Monastir are in danger of '
being outflanked and captured
German and Bulgarian reinforce
ments thrown in ,to check the Serbian ,
advance toward Uskub have been forced j
s to join in the retreat of their comrades '
1 by the impetuous Serbs, who now have '
advanced forty miles since September
15. Prisoners captured from the enemy ;
are being added to as the progress ]
‘ northward continues and the quantity of
war material also is .increasing
hTe salient driven into the Bulgarian ,
i lines at Sokol has been widened until'
| now the allies are advancing on a front J
! nearly fifty miles, stretching from east!
•of Monastir to the Vardar. When they
reached the Vardar the Serbians were i
; able to cut the railway running south ;
toward Saloniki and the only communi
' cation line of the Bulgarians in the re- I
1 gion of Lake Doiran. On the western,
flank the Serbs have pushed to the'
; highest point of the mountain region jri
i the. utter part of the Cerna bend and
cut the railway from Gradsko. south
east of Uskub to Prilep, the base of ;
the German army operating north and i
■ northeast of Monastir.
By cutting the railway lines the
: Serbs, have placed two large enemy
forces in great peril. The Bulgarians
around Doiran might retire northeast-
• -ward over -the mountains in Bulgaria, ;
ior north along the Vardar British and
: Greek troops are opposing thehi on the
south. The Serbs could, however, by
crossing in force to the east of the
Vardar, cut off the best means of re
treat.
Apparently the Germans around Pri
' lep aee in a worse position than the
Bulgarians in Doiran. To. retire north- j
waFd would be tp move over virtual
. cowpaths toward Uskub The best I
roads lead east and west. To the east ]
' the retreat has been cut off, while to;
the west the roads run toward the bor
der of Albania.
Present operations both in Palestine [
and Macedonia may have political re- ;
suits far outweighing the military ob
jectives that may be gained. There have .
been persistent reports that Bulgaria!
and Turkey are ready to retire from the '
war ;tnd the dynastic situation in Bui- [
garia is said to be such that with King
Ferdinand virtually retired-from active j
administration. sensational develop-
I ments may come at any time.
NUMBER 104,
2 TURKISH ARMIES
PRACTICALLY WIPED
OUT IN PALESTINE
LONrON'. Sept. 28.. CM p. m_, by the
Associated Press) —Twenty-fire thou
sand Turkish prisoners and 289 cannon
had been counted np to yesterday eve-
■ ning by General Allenby's forces push
i ing northward through Palestine, ac-
i cording to an official statement issued
today by (he war office.
The war office announcement says
that the seventh and eighth Turkish
armies have virtually ceased to exist.
The entire transport of these two arm
ies was captured* by the British.
Seixwre by the British of the cross
ings of the Jordan at
on Sunday morning, shut the last ave
nue of escape to the Turks west of the
! Jordan.
Reports from the Palestine front this
afternoon indicate uone of the Turkish,
force of at least 40,000 meji trapped by
the British through the seizure of the
last of the passages of the Jordan can.
possibly get away.
Virtually the entire Turkish force is>
or will be accounted ’ for in killed,
wounded and prisoners. Hundreds of
stragglers are being found wandering!
about in the mountainous country arm—
• lessly. without a leader or a purpose.
The Turks had seven divisions south,
of Nazareth and west of the Jordan, but
i the exact number cannot be determinedi
. owing to the weakness of some of the
■ Turkish divisions at the totals of differ-
. ent units varying. The total of 25,0(M>*
1 prisoners reported, however. is believed'
to be far less than the final count will,
show, as at last reports prisoners were
I stil being brought in.
'i*he clean-up effected by General Al-
I lenby. which is pointed to here as the
, quickest and most complete of the entire
war, is counted as having definitely de
prived the Turks of Palestine. In addi
ction. besides the personnel of their army.
■ the defeat has cost them an immense
amount of'wa rmaterial.
So far as is known the Turks on this
j front only had four airplanes, and these
!four have been captuted.
The—statement reads:
“Having seized the passages of tn*
Jordan at Jisr-Ed-Dameer on the mom-
I ing of September 22 the last avenue of
. escape open to the enemy west of tne
! river was closed by our troops.
“The Seventh and Eighth Turkish
armies have virtually ceased to exist
1 Their entire transport is in our hands.
"By 8 p. m. on -Jt» 22d 25,000 prison- 1
era and 260 guns had been counted.
Many prisoneds and much material re-
I main to be enumerated."
HISTOBTCaL BIBLICAL
PLACES ABE TAKEK
LONDON, Sept. 23. —Allied forces op
erating in Palestine have practically
! wiped out an entire Turkish army, cap
: turing more than 18.000 prisoners and
inflicting heavy casualties.
Nazareth, where, the angel Gabriel ap
peared before the Virgin Mary to an
nounce the conception of Christ, has
i been occupied, and the famous battlefield
of Armageddan has been traversed by
British cavalry in pursuit of the rem
nants of the Turkish army.
At the same time, allied troops in
Macedonia have reached the ’ Uskup-
Saloniki railway at Demir Kapoa pass,
thirty-six miles east of Prilep. cutting
j this line of communication which sup
plies the Bulgarian, army in the Lake
Doiran region. Other troops have cap
tured and passed to the north of the
important tonui of Kavadac, ten miles
west and norui of the Demir Kapou
defile. * *
The latest reports from Palestine
show the British troo'ps have ad
i ranted more than sixty miles since their
drive began Thursday. The main infan
try bodv Saturday was on a line run
i ning east and west through Samaria.
I forty miles north of Jerusalem. The
1 cavalry has progressed northward to
the region of the Sea of Galilee and ha?
occupied Nazareth, thirty miles north of
j Samaria. Other cavalry detachments are
(Contianod on Pago 2, Column 8.)