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Show " BRILLIANT STUCK IS IDE 8Y BBLT I 5 H In Early Morning Drive Haig Wins Another Decided Success and Enlarges the Salient in the Passchendaele Re-r- gion in Flanders. ALLENBY'S MEN WIN IN PALESTINE Casualties of 10,000 Inflicted In-flicted cn Turks, Exclusive Ex-clusive of Prisoners; Helsingfors, Finland, Reported in Possession of the Germans. BRITISH FTtONT IN BELGIUM. BEL-GIUM. Nov. 30. British troops in their attack iu tte Fasschendaele region on the F!anders front today reacted an extreme depth of 800 yards on a 2,'00-yard front. They not or.'.y attained their objectives, but seme 01 their troops have even pone beyond them to the north along PassohendAele ridge. hi nailers the Fritish have won another deci-ied success in enlarging the salient iu the l'asschendaele region. Attacking esr!y Saturday on a -o00-yar l. front, they pushed forward along the rid:e and iu the marshy district to the northwest to a maximum depth of ?.bo:t half a mile, capturing many strongly fortified positions in brilliant liritish forces iu Pale-tine are con- tinuinc their northwar-I mareh, follow-in follow-in tho retreating Turks. They have now ail vanned nearly twenty miles in the coast region sineo their rapture of Gaza reoently, an.l have nearly nttninel the latitude of .leru5alem. That eity is more than forty miles in!aiil, however. how-ever. an-1 the interior British column, raoiii from Beerheba, apparently has roauV less rapid progress than the cohs-tal cohs-tal force. The British havo taken nn-re than seventy gun and in f lie ted estimated es-timated casualties of 1000 on the Turks, exelusive of prisoners. GerniHUv shows signs of cont inu ing her aggressive moves in nort hern Russian Rus-sian waters. Following on advu-es that German troops had landed oa the Aland islands, off the gulf of Bothnia, be-t-neen Finland and tweuen earn a report re-port from Stoekholm that (iorman forces bad entered Helsingfors, capital ot Finland. This move is considered as probably having both political and military objects, the former in taking advantage of Finnish discontent and desire for independence from Kus-ia and tbe latter in the threat that is presented of interference with com-niunication1 com-niunication1 with Russia from the west through Finland and Sweden. |