| Show STRONG OFFENSIVE IS j t 1 STILL PLOWING AHEAD I 1 I V I I rs to tl Soi Soissons wn lIe cue Bi Brit Brit- li lift ft h and Am Americans are I keeping up without cessation their strong offensive o tactics The Germans GermAn are still giving 1 ground Seemingly h realizing his peril prompts the t enemy to put forth every wery effort cHort to avert complete complete com com- disaster I Territory long long- longhe he held by the enemy ha has been restored Thousands of oC Germany Germans have ha been sent behind the lines to swell the great reat throng thron In prison camps and anel ninny many of the enemy's dead lying upon the tho battlefield testify to his heavy casualties casualties' cas cas- Retreating columns of ot the Germans h have e been cut to pieces h by the British artillery froth from vantage e points point before which the enemy was compelled to pas pass unsheltered from the fire of ot the British gunners From the rc region lon around Arras southward southward south south- ward to Peronne the British line has haa moved forward everywhere since the famous Drocourt allt defense defonso line tine was overwhelmed o and left leCt In tho the rear re Eastward of or the tho Drocourt line tine the I British now how tire ure nearing the tho Canal Du Ou Nord and Valenciennes and Cam bra I have been further encroached upon by l n lIsh Canadian and anel Australian Aus Aus- troops East of oC peronne the British line Una linn has been steadily pushed forward Numerous towns and village have hn fallen Into British hands hanel among them at the southern end of oC the tho Drocourt line To the south the French alon along the tho J Canal Du Nord are giving ln 1 the enemy No no re rest t and gradually are arc blotting oute out the e remaining portion o of the salient north of or oroon oon Notton Noyon while on the Soissons sector the he French and anti Americans now are In control of oC the entire plateau I 0 I Idom dom dominating the I no the des Chemin-des- j I Dames and ancl the roads toads to Laou Laon and La Fet Felc e c. c In III Flanders Fanders the British have ha penetrated penetrated pene pene- the outskirts of uC Lens tho the Camous fa famous famous fa- fa coal mining city In northern France and farther north In the Lys Ls Ly I sa salient t ha have haP P tn taken Icen H St. St t j I and established est themselves on onI the line of or La Ia Bassee rO road td and ami between I th there re and having haven captured th the named last place S t e e a and I I ct also aln are arc In British hands s I and thus the great salient is virtually wiped out I Unofficial lal dispatches sn sa say that t In the region southeast nH of oC Arras Anal the Germans German are retiring t to lo a n new swItch line rune running run run- I e ning from Crom five lve miles southeast southeast south south- east of oC Drocourt southward to Moeuvres res where It Joins the I hoe lino n near nar ar If JC this proves prO true the new line tine already seems seem menaced menaced men men- aced cd as Field Marshal Halg's men virtually virtually vir vir- are arc upon It at nt and I Ru- Ru maucourt southeast of or Arras and al almost almost almost al- al most abreast of or It R at Baralle three miles north of ot I British aviators ha have carried out an Intensive e bombing raid on towns Inthe In Inthe the he Rhine province pro dropping large lare quantities of oC explosives cs on Beuhl brucken n and Ehrang Heavy damage e eI I Is said to ha have 0 been heen done by the missiles mis mis- silo siles dropped from tho the low flying planes pianos The United States government o has hafi recognized as ng In the war a against the central powers the Slovak peoples They alread already have o been I recognized by by Great Britain France and Ital Italy and Japan through her participation par par- I in the expedition In Siberia with the other allied countries has given Implied recognition |
