Show ALLIES ARE ARL PRESSING p IN FRANCE I i I BATTLES RAGING 0 French U-rench J r Claim to Have Reached t Crest East of Vimy in Artois Which Commands pia Plains ns tor to r f tE East st Network of 1 Railway ty Running So Southward a DRIVE TOW TOWARD ARD R RAILROAD 1 J. J C IN CHAMPAGN CHAMPAGNE GOES GOES GOES' GOESON ON R I t Emperor t William Is Reported to 10 Have Visit Visited d Front and andi i to Have Dismissed Generals Whose Lines Were Forced Back to I Near B Breaking P Point int HEAVY HEAVY- STROKES AT I T ONDON s Sept rt 20 The Thc The allies allies' Lf offensive C in Artois and lI ll the is still be being heng ug- ug persevered in anil according to French accounts which however er arc aro contradicted l b by bythe bythe the thc German official reports further Ir 4 progress progress has been een made mado in both areas arcas r In Artois tho the French claim to have haVo 1 cached che 1 10 which I h Uca 8 dl directly t of Vimy Im of I town own The Thc importance of or the hill Hc lies n the fact that It c commands m the plains th the e east ent t the network o of ot roads rand I 5 the railway which runs from Lens r southward t. t Driving Toward loUard Railroad r. r i. i So far tar as Champagne Champane is concerned the French appear at present to be bo f. f i making their chief effort toward the ther tr r railroad Junction north of or Massiges b which accounts for fat the thc desperate ef efforts efforts ef- ef forts orts of at the Germans to stem the tide and nd for Cor the crown princes prince's counter I stroke In the Argonne as this railway connects the thc n army in the I Argonne with its base at nt Perhaps the heaviest fl fighting since the the offensive be began an now is going oln on for tor the British are arc attacking the tho German Ger Ger- man third line of or defense south of or La canal and tho the Germans have hao brought up reinforcements against both the British and French and are aro making ever every effort to retrieve the Iho lost ground Belgium lurn dispatches from Holland sa say has been denuded of troops while the German detachments are re even lyen being removed remo from Crom the eastern east east- em ern front to resist the greatest reat effort cHart made marl in the west vest since the armies took tool up p their present position from Belgium to Switzerland y An Amsterdam dispatch to today toy y an announce announced announced an- an that It was s probable that thai K a new German commander r in chief of the w western stern armies soon will wm be ap l ap- ap pointed In this connection the name of oC Field Marshal von yon is 72 mentioned C On ed Irn t P German Genna ca casualties u In the rec recent nt offensive of of- N of ot the French an and British In Including Including In- In eluding killed wounded and prisoners were ere re gl given gln n officially b by the French war al office toll today a as ns in excess of ot tho strength of at three throe arm army corps more than mOn Recapture from froni the British of ot part oC of ef the t territory Or won from Cram tho the Germans Ger- Ger mans ns north of or oos I-oos was announced today to- to eb day b by the German war office and rench French attacks attack near neal and Neu- Neu cro sold said t to have o been partly arll re- re pul d md attempts to break through the German In iii the Champa Champagne ne district district dis dis- 15 1 were declared to h hive have C failed Vc We e e a all athe th the new po- po c conquered d 11 say the tho French report report re- re port In I with the lighting fighting between be be- tween So Sott hez and anI Vim Vimy In the Artois 11 n v ni 1 l j l- l lh h li I is i in p progress o II In the i e Iiii hills r Front Tho The Germans are aro trying to divert tho the 8 b by a heavy artillery bom- bom north and couth of or tho the Aisne Alane hut but plans having been made by byA I A General Joffre th the French are arc striking with all nil th the forces Corces at their command at t th the points selected It Is reported that th the G Gorman German emperor has arrived It t tho the western front and that he has hns already dismissed some of or hl his hiM generals for Cor allowing their lines to bo ho press pressed ell jjack bick aek to almost tho the breaking point Despite the transfer of or sonic troops tl to the tle west tho the Germans continue continuo to strike hard at ot the Russians practically 1511 all along their front Field Marshal von on H U M delivering heavy strokes against while whilo his col- col ou oti his right light Is pushing forward for for- ward to the ca caRt t of oC and Molo- Molo IO In iii an attempt to turn the Rusan Rus- Rus Ian an po position lUon and has now reached a to the north of oC Minsk while another army 1 is 18 advancing on tho the IOU southwest th Field Marshal hal halon von on Prince Leopold of oC Bavaria l apparently I ale aio Inactive owing O 1 to the tho marshes wilch are arc now Impassable but hut General von on is IH still pressing I Ward hard kr on the Russian In r tf V J r f f GE NE RA IJ VON HIDDEN HIDDEN- I x BURG hero of ot tho tito German f J ann array army who who dispatches ho dispatches say may be may bee J ordered to the west front I t I I t I I II I I 4 I I k 4 1 1 I i I ji H I I |