DEFINITE RETREAT IN THE WEST.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14891, 14 October 1918, Page 4

DEFINITE RETREAT IN THE WEST.

AtUES ADVANCING WITH GfiEAT rapidity;

PRESIDENT WILSON'S TERMS ACCEPTED.

CENTRAL POWERS READY TO EVACUATE.

RUMOURS OF EPOCHAL EVENTS IN ffiKiNy.

MILITARISM DETHRONED.

To-day a news from the Western theitre shows t.h«. enemy to be in definite and rapid retreat in tilth main sectors, and it is hard to see/where they 1* If a farthered .hart of the Wiei% w ofed <&£* sive work, intervening. Yon Boehm's aL? hi b*n completely b,aten, that of tha Crown Prince L «W^ between the Ois ß and the Aisne, and Prince R u ,?n,^' is half encircled. The French have canto r fd V • ' and the whole of the Chemin d f s-d^an ti^Rrirt' have Meh^ th, outskirts of Douai. l^X 4?* a^ mrwny hnTeiaama'ed their acceptance of P/» 1( W v'," civil peer b,ing.th« first act of tte^S^,^

Ihc »abie news in this issue accredited t« 'ci% o tthat jomnal but only where expressly stated is Sri, ' *Vl»*#*d in cmion of 'The Times." ls saGb n ew» ti-o editorkJ