Show DRIVE THREATENS i SUBMARINE BASES n fly nj A 41 le l rr PITH Pree entente forces In Uel Belgium lum and andI andI THE I I France continue successfully toI to drive the enemy before In Ill I Belgian Flanders the tile advance anco Is sOniC some somewhat what rapid hut lint on all the sectors In France th the Germans are fighting d desperation to hold back their foes loos The great wedge that Is 15 being driven b by tho Belgian British and French troops in Flanders now threatens seriously son seri o the tenure b by the enemy of oC many po positions In north Bel Belgium lurn from the lays 18 river to the thc sea Including his submarine fI and other bas bases basc B aJon along the coast while to the south the th na- na gradually is being enmeshed and doubtless soon noon will receive attention from the pincers which are being oiled for tor the task of r reclaiming this Important tant tract of ot territory as far as asal Valenciennes Val YAI for Franco France Meanwhile lh the tho French and American forces are are struggling lIn valiantly forward forward for tor- ward In their drive c northward from tho tile Champagne region Into the country countr coun coun- tr try over o which the Germans must ef effect ef- ef feet a retirement to their own border In iii the event of ot a final debacle A As has hns been boen the tho case cale always alwn's since Ince the tho offensive often offen dye sive he began all the Germans are arc vigorous vigorous- Iv Jy defending their positions using In Innumerable Innumerable In- In numerable machine gun fun detachments In endeavors on to lO hold hoM their ground 1 Particularly Par r vicious are the that the Americans are being compelled to lo sustain east and west of oC the Meus where the tho entire enemy front Is threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened with Immediate collapse should General men crash through theline the tho line lino for material n gains Nevertheless Ne both th the Americans and French aro tiro demanding that their arms b be served and on various vailous sectors they are arc meeting with success s. s In the Ro- Ro sector further gains have p been hee made mad by the Americans In the face tace of ot terrific artillery and machine gun Jun lie lle and the tho natural dt defenses and great reat ot or wire lrA entanglements which lieu isil to tt hu negotIated Decollated Bad B weather h line has fallen over r tho the sector and the tile airmen lia hn have e L been cn unable to give their usual brilliant assistance to th the maneuvers To the tho west the tho French aro arc slowly closing In upon Rethel on un their way to being only two miles distant distant distant dis dis- tant from the town Yc West t of af Grand Pro Pre the they haveS hava effected further c oss- oss I loge ings of ot the tho Aisne About SOO 00 Germans were made prisoner In this fighting In Flanders the tue British havo have taken the Important railway center of ot ha has fallen and the railroad has almost been won Numerous towns town have ha been recaptured b by tho tIme allied forces and largo large nuin- nuin num-I num hrs hers of prisoners have ha been taken Inn Many Mally guns gulls also have breve fallen tub into the hands halide of ot th allies I 11 Is The capture of or completely out outflanks Clanks the thO G German Ger Jer- Iman I man nina submarine base at Ostend and brings the tho a allied III ell troops troop within ten ton miles of ot Bru Bruges es whence the railroad d line runs rumie northward to Germanys Germany's Ger Gee many's n other boat U-boat base In tho the North I sea Reports are to the thc effect that the Germans arc withdrawing what Is left of ot their forces In the tho north both naval na I and and military In Albania I the tho Italians H have n occupied pied pled the Austrian naval n base n of 0 T P DS frazzo f- f razzo on the tile Adriatic while In Serbia the thc allied forces arc are continuing to press pres the tile enemy nem troops north Cr |