Show I ALLIES PRESS I HARD AGAINST i ii i ik k RETIRING FOE i From Dutch Frontier to toI tol l i I lell cuse c Germans Arci Are Arc re i 1 Forced Back 1 n BJ r I London Oct 26 Mi All tb way a b bc- bc t tho Dutch frontier an and the ha American allied pressure Is S beilS' beilS be- be Jn ilS' ilS maintained In toile the center on a at i t line paralleling the Laon lino line s the tho hc Germans were forced to accelerate t retreat materially In hea heavy 4 fighting Ie In which their fierce resist resist- an ano n o a brought broue them thorn nothing but new heavy y lo losses ses thc they were thrown from trong positions an and substantial proGress S ress was ma e eb b the British toward t Mons an and l' l while the I cut ut fresh frosh chunks out ut of or tho the apex of ot tho the salient north and cast of ot Laon on The main British success was scored on n tho the front north and south of ot Vaen- Vaen I clenne particularly particular south of ot that rail There Thera tho crossed tho the V treat Teat koy key they crosse Avosnes A railway In force and threw the Germans back cross the thc thet t 1 Rhonello river 1000 prisoners prisoner I C and advancing tUll fully two miles In a n. northeastern direction I ln I Ii I Tonight ht the British stand at the bend of ot tho the jU Just l east pf pt Ar- Ar seventeen miles west of ot Mau- Mau beuge Further southeastward they e havo taken the village of ot Englefontaine taine and there thero only fourteen miles milos separate them from the French fort fort- ress k There I Is however er sUit still the great groat tore forest t to overcome o At last I 10 r reports ports tho the British were biting their 1 I Wl wa way Into the eastern outskirts Crossing the great track double railway rail rall- wa way running southeastward from Yale Val Val- e C to iia ha has enabled d tho thc I British to start northward taking Val Val- in tho the rear The Tue Germans ar are hanging on desper- desper 3 i atly to the southern and eastern outskirts outskirts out- out skirts of ot town The Tho French scored an important adVance adA advance ad- ad A vance ance b by taking less than six sis Ic miles from tho the rail base of ot Marie Iare Into I this latter to town ton n run two Important 4 rails one from irom La J Fare Fere cre tho the other from Laon J aon From Merle Mario northeastward run runs I 1 n ft railway to another via Ia Liart to to I nethel Soon con oon 10 0 to van i V Rethel the big rail pivot far tar to the I southeast northeast of ot Rheims Is now no i IJ virtually flanked on the st nast and west ost 4 and Its abandonment Is a a. matter of ot days s 's Tho The French In their northward drive o east of Laon smashed forward on a n. front between i end and Chi Chateau advancing between between be be- be- be tween one ono and two miles an and l grappling grappling grap grap- rap rap- pling the formIdable line Pershing's forces further eastward 1 made fresh local progress In their attacks at attacks attacks at- at tacks on the The crumbling of ot the German center also has bas resulted In a new givIng wa way I on on their front In Belgium At hem th the Ui British tonight are seven eon and andt t one half miles slightly southwest ot of Audenarde e. e comparable n as a a. ran railway ay I I point to Valenciennes while the French ha have taken Zulte only nine miles northwest of ot Aud Audenarde AU I |