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Show FRENCH FORCES KJDME Germans Receive Orders to Halt the Progress at Any Price. i PARIS, Nov. B9. In an advance- VTttt of Banogno, northwest of Laon, the French today took 850 prisonors, according ac-cording to the war office announcement tonight. The (if I h n rmv att nckml today on a front of about seven and a half miles bet ween St. tuon tin V Petit and Herpy. The communication follows: "Between the Oise and Sefre rivers there have liecn spirited artillery actions, ac-tions, notably in the rotfion of Creoy-tfur-Serre. "To the west of Chntcau Porcien the indefatigable troops of the fifth army undertook today a new advance on B front of twelve kilometers, between 8t. Qucntin le-Petit and Herpy. The hat-tie hat-tie is being fought with magnificent spirit on our side and great stubbornness stubborn-ness on the part of the enemy, who has orders to halt us nt any price. "On our left, in spite of an abundance abund-ance of machine gunners, who tried to chock our advance, wo succeeded in passing beyond St. Quentin-le-Potit and Oarriea our lino to the ueighorhood of Hill 187. ' ' West of Banogne we also made progress. In the confer our troops- have repulsed t lie enemy beyond tho road of Recouvranjro-Sfc. 1'Yrveux, over a width of three kilometers. "To the, right wo have conquered Hill 166 nnd have advanced more to tho east. Prinonors to the number of 850 have actually been counted. ' ' Aviation- I Mltober -S: Our reeon noitering machines have pressed very far into 'he enemy .one and brought back hundred! of photographs, tunny of t hem being 1 a ken between thirty and fifty kilometers from the front. Nine enemy planes were brought down or fell ml of control. A captive balloon was set on fire, , "During Hie light OUT bombing squftdfonfl dropped sixteen tons of pro jjectilei on large railway stations and important points of concentration, par tiCUlarly on the railway stations of Hir-son, Hir-son, Vor v ins, St . Hobort , M out lornet , Marie and Audun-le Konmn and on the aviation grounds of Marsla-Tour and on large depots nt Provi.y. Numerous fljOfi were started by our projectiles, namely, :it provizv, Kirson ami Mario. " Eastern front: On tun Danube front in tho region of Widin and of the iron gates therd has boon artillery fir-, ing. Thfl Serbian vanguard, pushing the enemy northward, has reached the front nt' Stragari, I he liaka river and Kenava, twenty kilometers north of Kniguie VatSi and has taken several hundred prisoners and gnus and machine gnus. ' ' In the direction of UJlCO and the frontier of H erugo ina. Serbian ad VanCO elements have readied the pall Of Cacak JUffO-Slav units, operating in M ontenegro, have passed beyond fpjok nnd 1 Hnkovo. ' ' |