A BRITISH DRIVE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 27, 26 October 1918, Page 7

A BRITISH DRIVE

ENEMY'S RESISTANCE OVERCOME GREAT CAPTURES OF GUNS ; AND, ■ ■ PRESIDENT WILSON'S REFUSES TO TREAT WITH !i : RULERS

'■In-.the great.battle winch is in progress south of.'the Franco-Belgian, border and on the approaches to slon> and Maubeuge, the British armies .are. making 'rapid;headway over difficult .country jvhicH' the enemy is do- •■• ing his utmost to defend.. Already the German line aloDg the Scheldt Canal is seriously outflanked; and a broad wedge has been driven 1 into the area west of. Jiaubeuge. Seven thousand prisoners have been taken, and more than a-hundred duns. The New Zealand Division captured several batteries,;including some of heavy .guns.'' The opinion seems to lie eain'■ine •" that' the' 'enemy is incapable of •: holding the Allies for any length pf time anywhere short of. the line, of the Meuse. A New' York message states, that'cablegrams received by'the Italian Embassy indicate" that an offensive may have opened on the Italian front. Italian; French, and British troops arerallreported to be attacking- Harrowing accounts are ( given'of the atrocities committed by the Bulgars in Greek Macedonia, where they seem to have equalled "the infamies of which they were.guilty, in Serbia., The Greek Government is urgently'requesting the Allies and neutrals to appoint ah international commission to investigate' the .facts.. .According to an Amsterdam message the. Kaiser is suffering from nervous prostration, and is in a critical condition. It is reported i that the Allies are forming an inter-Allied diplomatic- council, Colonel House representing America, ~, ~ ' , v .