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Show KAISER ORDERS ATTACKS UNTIL FOEJSBHTEN Paris Announces That the: Efforts of the Germans ! So Far Have Been i Unavailing. ALLIES EXPANDING THEIR FLANK MOVE Troops Are Flung Farther North Toward Belgian Frontier in Attempt to Encircle Von Kluk. PARIS, Sept. IT. The German army in Franec has been ordered by its commander com-mander in chief, presumably at the behest be-hest of the kaiser, to remain on the offensive of-fensive until a definite result of the battle of the Aisne is obtained, j This was the interpretation given in the official communicaTion issued by the war office tonight of the unremitting unremit-ting attacks made by the Germans along the entire battle line during the last three davs and nights. The re port added that the efforts of the enemy ene-my so far bad proved unavailing. Thus the battle enters it3 third week with the rival armies engaged in a ceaseless struggle for inches of ground. The fighting of the last twenty-four hours has been of an unprecedented violence. Desperate attempts made by the Germans Ger-mans on the western end of the long battle line to break through the allies' forces, which are engaged in a turning movement, have resulted in the most furious fighting that has taken place since the beginning of the campaign. After fighting without rest night and day, eorps of Ge r mans were hurled against the allies today, only to be thrown back. At points along the battle front, particularly par-ticularly between the Oi.se and the Somme and in the vicinity of Kheims. the opposing intrenehments are only a few hundred yards apart, and the fighting fight-ing consists largely of bayonet charges and counter charge's. The allies have made progress north of tbe Somme ri er. Troops have reached Bap;mnie. a tow n about seventeen miles west of Ganibrai. Between the ( )ise ami Somme rivers flight advances have been made. Extend Turning Move. Further paM in the center ma nv vigorous at tacks were made bv t lie Germans, but they were repulsed ex-eppt ex-eppt between iSouain and the Argonne forest, where thev gincd some -ground, only to lose it later. Little activity was reported front the territory be-tween be-tween the Argonne forest and the "Met ise in the Woevre dist riet. The Germans hold one position whi'h ox-ton ox-ton i is past Pt. Mihiel and do rt invest of Pont -M nusson. The neWs that a considerable allied force hail been in bat I le with Genua n outposts at Bapaume is considered to be one of the most important developments of t he da v. The presence of t lu'e 'troops is taken to mean that the pipeline pipe-line "f General von Kbik's line and the interruption of its railroad connection between St. Qnent in. Mauheuge, Xa-mnr Xa-mnr and 1 .iege is even nea rcr ai'i'oni-pi ai'i'oni-pi ish ment than it was when the allies were confininj: their attacks to the section sec-tion of the enentv's line between St. Qut'tit i n and Peronne. w hieh was of-'u-pied Inst. week. Rv fhrowing large bod i ps of t roops f urt her t nward the north, the allies are believed to have M rengt henpd their rhn nee; of swinging swing-ing flown on a southeast line and trik-ing trik-ing (Jeneral inn Kink's flanks between (. Htnbrai and St. Quent in at 'a spot where, if they Mii-ered in penetrating it , t hev will be on ly a .vhnrt dist a ue from the railway rommunicat ion, which is their objective. Other reports from the left wing sav that the allies in a force believed to constitute an important armv, are operating oper-ating near the Belgian border. Infer- nation as to tiie exact, strength ami movements of this force is withheld liv tiie oensor, hut the juirpose of the maneuver n nrlotiliteflly is to carry out still further the attai-k on the railrnail lines nn which Ueneial von Kluk must depen'1 if he is to inaiDtain his position posi-tion in St. Qnent in. The war office is imposing an un-u un-u uallv strict censorship on reports of this force, which lea. is to the belief that its movements are considered of the Greatest strategic importance and must" be kept from the knowledge of the eneinv until the final blow is ready to he struck. |