FRENCH VICTORY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 30, 30 October 1918, Page 5

FRENCH VICTORY

DECISIVE DEFEAT OF THE GERMANS REPORTED 1 ' ; OISE-AISNE LINE ABANDONED \ . '•' AUSTRIA ASKS FOR _ , AN ARMISTICE ALLIED WAR COUNCIL MEETS ■i Brilliant operations by the French armies in Northern Champagne • have culminated,, states one of the correspondents, in the decisive defea of the the abandonment of the Oise-Aisne front, a large bag ot ; prisoners, and the oreation of a position of great danger to. the enemy a forces in 'this region. There are no major operations on the Briti front. In Palestine we have captured the important junction north Aleppo, and so severed tin enemy's lines of communications with Mesopotamia. The Turks, under von retired to the junction of ,the roads leading from Atondretta aid Adana to Constanhnople A Greek message states thai the Turks are concentrating on the, Chatalja lines, the strong defensive positions which block. to Constantinople. In Mesopotamia the pursuit of the.Turks continues successfully. 'Austria has submitted proposals for an armistice which are regarded m Paris aa being tantamount to actual capitulation. The whole war situation has been dramatically changed, and ( peace brought appreciably nearer.