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Show FOCH NOW DRIVING FORMIDABLE WEDGE BETWEEN HUN BASES TARIS. Oct. 15. Marshal Foch is driving driv-ing a formidable wedge between the German Ger-man bases of Bruges and Ghent, in Belgium, and Lille, in France. The effective ef-fective manner in which King Albert carried car-ried out his attack Monday has further widened the wedge, which threatens to split the German forces, unless the enemy falls back speedily on a wide front. The British army of General Plummer on the right wing of the allied advance now is easily three miles from the important im-portant railway junction of Courtrai. Once the allies master the line Wervico-Menin-Courtrai, which probably will be only a matter of a few hours, the German Ger-man army situation at Lille will be most perilous, and that at Ghent not much better. The French capture of Roulers is a serious loss to the Germans. Although the Belgian railway system Is dense enough to provide alternative routes to a certain extent, the allied entrance into Roulers on the first day of the offensive is bound to affect the German commnui-catlon commnui-catlon system most unfavorably. |