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Show . I ' . EiElf'S F I Ll IS Fortified Positions Between Be-tween Cambrai and St. Quentin Definitely Smashed by Entente. Roulers Is Entered by the Belgians in Drive to Close Submarine Bases on North Sea. By the Associated Press. Lcds, the heart of the great coal region re-gion in northern France, and Armen-tierc, Armen-tierc, almost equally important as a maflU-facturiui: center, have been evacuated evacu-ated by the German?; the German fortified forti-fied positions beuvcen Cambrai and St. Quentin have l.cn definitely smashed, and the Austvo-Hungariarjs in Albania, forsaken by the Bulgarians, their former for-mer allies, are in full retreat northward ' from the Adriatic sea to Lake Ochrida. Of the reconquering of invaded Belgium Bel-gium and the progress of the French and Franco-American forces, respectively, respec-tively, north of Kheijns and eastward in Champagne to the vicinity of Verdun, the tale remains the same the Germans Ger-mans slowly but surely are being forced everywhere to give ground and their vital defenses daily continue to be oaten into, notwithstanding the strong resistance against the efforts of the allies to close in on all iides of the great battle are from the North sea to the Swiss border and compel the German Ger-man high command to reconstruct i;t lighting line. BELGIAN FLANDERS ADVANCE KEEPS UP. In Belgian Flanders, the Belgian, French and British troops are keeping up their eastward progress in their endeavors en-deavors to compel tbe Germans to gie up Ostend and Zcebruggc, their n;n al bases on the North sea. Routers, the important railway junction, junc-tion, with its lines of steel radiating to the North sea aud eastward to Ghent, lias been entered by the Belgians, and at HoogledCj to the north, King Albert Al-bert s men arc virtually upon the Kou-lers-Ostend-Bruges railway. To the south Menin and Courtrai are seriously i menaced. Across the border in France thr capture cap-ture of Armontieres brings Lille, capital capi-tal of the department of the Nord, within with-in striking' distance, r.nd the evacuation 1 of Lens places Douai. the fortress north-I north-I easi of Arras, and all the territory he-tween he-tween Arras and Menin virtually in the 1 hands of the British. jALLIES ENTERING ROLLING TERRAIN. To the south, from Cambrai Im 1. j (.Llueuti u. tbe G erma n resistance is t ill strong, but the British, American? nud French, on all t lie sec 1 0 rs w h i c h ; essential to the carrying forward of the allied program, have attacked :i-liautly :i-liautly aud wit h stood count er-n t tack , smashed the old Hind en l.ui rg poi I ion 3 and materially advanced their line, t'e-quehart. t'e-quehart. north of St. Quentin, which tiie i Germans in a violent couiiter-attac n-; n-; captured from tbe Brit ish VVcdne-day. again has been taken by Field Marshal I Kaig "s men. whu now are out on the I rolling country to the eastward, as like, wise are all the allied troops from St. Quentin northward. Northwest of Ivhcims the Germans are offering more resistance to the 1 French along the Ai-ne and 011 the sectors sec-tors which a re prot e?t ing the eastern end of the Chemiu-des-Dames. the western west-ern end of whi'di already i dominad lv the Frem-h gun's, but iicnernl H-rt b '- I (Continued oa Page Eiiit FAMOUS ENEMY DEFENSES FALL (Continued from Page One.) lot's force?, nevertheless, have captured cap-tured Connicy and reached the Aisnc canal between Conceverenx and La Neuvillerre, a front of -more than fit-teen fit-teen miles. French Victors. la Champagne the French have enlarged en-larged their gains from the region north of Somme-Py to the western fringes of the Argon no forest, taking prisoners and inflicring heavy casualties on the enemy. The railroad jumtion noir.r of Ckallerauge, a short distance south ot ViHtiers. ins been captured, and here the French have completed their domination domi-nation of the Aire valley running nortli ot tht? Argoane forest, and are only nwniting the arrival ot the Americans at the eastern end of the valley to nip the nig wooded bastion out of the fighting fight-ing line. The Americans ato slowh- approaching ap-proaching t he rendezvous. In their retreat from Albania, the A u s t r 0 - H a n g a r i a n s eve ry w h e r e a r e i n flight before the Italians, burning towns and depots behind them. Large numbers num-bers of prisoners and quantities of war material have been captured. |
