Show I CAPTURED IN RENEWED DRIVE By B- Associated Press P pEACE talk pervades the Hie- ail air but it itis is falling on deaf ears cars so far as th armies in the field are concerned Instead of a relaxation in the in intensity intensity of the f fighting new hostilities on what seemingly is a a. major seal are uc being carried out b by the Brit British ish French and Belgians in Flanders rs I I I cleared out the ol old Laon sa salient salient sa- sa and made advances northward in Champagne v v. are menacing the tue retirement of oC the lie Germans eastward toward the he Valenciennes Mets line General Foch has ordered a a. thrive drive In iii tho the Lys Ls river re region Jon of Flanders to toward toward toward to- to ward Ghent which threatens to break entirely th the grip of or the Germans In Belgium all the wa way isay from the lie frontier to the coast and likewise to lo eliminate the big biS' bul bulge c In the lie line with Lille Lilleas as its apex I Ii h Captured d While the latest official communication tion Lion from Field arshal announces announces an an- that Ottly local actions have taken place In the tIme new theatre and that prisoners have ha been taken talen in the lie fighting dispatches dispatches dispatches dis dis- patches from headquarters as assert ert that has been captured and that tho the Junction point on the railway railway railway rail rail- way leading loading to Ghent has been outI out out- flanked Tho The French troops alone are arc said to have taken 1000 prisoners while tho the Belgians have havo captured several complete complete com corn batteries and anti guns uns an and numerous prisoners Just lust how wide the now front remit of attack is has lias not become apparent ap rip- parent It Is stated that hat the new advance advance advance ad ad- vance has brought the tIie allied troops within range ranso of or the enem enemy coast de defenses de- de crises but that tho guns 1 from rota them have offered no opposition ne Stiffening Meantime In the south the time Germans German are offering stiff opposition to the British southwest of or Valenciennes and andon andon andon on tho the sector In iii an endeavor to prevent the lie closing closing- in of oC the Lille sack and aull tho tIme capture of or this important town to and also Valenciennes which are In precarious conditions If it movement gets well under At last reports the Germ Germane won wert still falling CallinG back baek from from the region o 0 Laon that town and tho the entire S massif being in the tho hands othe o 0 othe the French In Champagne lh the Frenc have been enabled to make crossings of or the thc Aisne and to mate matt better their front eastward no not notwithstanding withstanding the stoic defense of ot th enemy who realizes it Is of oC the greatest great reat greatest est Importance to hold back the Fre Frenc c and Americans driving northward a aa aa aa a breach tn to the lie southern line and swift s advance aneo would imperil the on tire German force Inside tho the sack Iron ron the tIme Olse river west vest o of Flavigny Fla to Sis Sissonne Sissonne sonne cast o of Laon thins Hunt Renew Probably the greatest resistance e o 0 all aU is faced b by the Americans on boil bot i sides of or the Mouse tu e river Vicious conn cotta s are being delivered the men from the United States th tb fierceness of ot the assaults In that fresh Cresh forces trees have been brough into the time fray to halt their or do efforts to proceed up the river valley valle and thereby compel the Germans I Ij II IIi j i case a e of ot a retreat to wend their wa obliquely northeastward instead c o eastward toward the time German border I Concentrations of artillery are arc beni beim used a against the American positions a aI arlous arious places Gas shells are not be being being I ing big spared by the enemy enem in his effort to hold the Americans in Sn check All the counterattacks of or the Ger German Germans mans man thus far havo o been withstood b b General Genera Lt getts gett's men and the Amerl merJ can artillery y Is ls s answering answering- the r guns shot for shot |