BULGARS SATISFIED.

Northern Advocate, 30 September 1918, Page 2

BULGARS SATISFIED.

TURKS MAY FOLLOW SUIT. WESTERN COMBINE. PREVAILS AT ALL POINTS.

HUNS HAMMERED.

Germany is greatly incensed over the action of the Bulgarian Premier in proposing an armistice and offering peace terms. The German authorities declare that he has acted independently of the Bulgarian Cabinet and King Ferdinand. Meanwhile the Premier is said to have definitely declared: "Bulgaria is out of the war!" There is also talk of Turkey arranging peace proposals.

A Near East development of great importance is recorded per extraordinary cable message. The Austrian forces in Albania, acting under the imminent fear of being squeezed to death by the Allied pressure from east and west, are evacuating the country. This incapacity to hold out is of vital moment to the Central Powers, and has created, as one of its first effects, a panic on th. Stock Exchange in Berlin.

Reports from the Western front per medium of the High Com* missioner reveal highly encouraging conditions. The simultaneous strokes of the Allies are producing very telling effects. The Americans on Friday made full use of their initial Verdun advantage, and have now wrested 200 guns from the foe and taken 8000 Germans into captivity. The British have herded another 10,000 Germans into the cages and increased their gun-capture tally by 200, and in co-operation with the Belgians have inaugurated big operations in Flanders. Success of highly appreciable measure has also attended the French, who have made another move on their whole battlefront and carried their penetration to a maximum depth of five miles. The capture of Arleux by the British is mentioned in later reports.

The Flanders offensive is reported to be progressing excellently. An advance of two miles on a front extending from the north of Ypres to Dixmude has already been made. Poelcapelle has fallen into the hands of the Belgians and British, and Passchendaele .is out-flanked.