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Show ST. GOBAIN MASSIF, LAON AND LA FERE LOST BY GERMANS Laon Plateau Now Allies' Territory My Aseaeleted Praaa. PAH 1 8, Ort. 14 Another victory haa baan added to tha lone trail of lory biased by tha allied armlea. Tha Laon plateau t laat haa baan j won, crowning tha Cambral-Ht. Quentln and Champagne offenalvaa. Tha maneuvara ao akllfully elaborated by Marshal Fod and ao ably I carried out by Field Marahal Half and General Petaln enabled thla great I achievement to ba accompllahad without tha loaa Inseparable from a direct attack. Tha result la the ruin of tha entire defenalva ayatem built up by tha Oerman general staff etnee 1114, for tha corneratone tf It waa tha I .son plateau, on which the (lerman Una waa pivoted. It waa to turn It that tha offenelvea of 191. and 1914 were carried out. It waa agalnat It that tha campaign of 1917 waa prematurely broken. It waa from tha plateau that the elxlh great drive of the Oermana toward Parte waa atarted. Ita fall la the prologue to the total liberation of Franca, for tha proa" re Ha made by the rirltlah In the vicinity of lloual puta the Oermana In aui'h a position that even If they can manage for a time to cling between fiohatn and rloleemee. while they evacuate tha pocket of which HI. (lobaln la the bottom, they will be obliged to get back along the frontier, and It la more than likely that they will not even have time for that. By Aeaseiatod frees. PARIS, Oct. 14. Sixty-five hundred civilians were liberated when the French troops entered the city of Laon. The statement issued at the war office says the French have passed far beyond the town on the whole front between the Oisc and the Ailctte river. By Aaaoaiated Preea. PARIS, Oct. 14. French troops last night continued to keep in contact with the retiring Germans, the French 'war office announced an-nounced today. The French repulsed the remaining enemy troops showing resistance on the north bank of the Aisne canal south of Chateau-Porcicn. GREAT VICTORY FOR ALLIES. By United Preea. LONDON, Oct. 14. The last great German stronghold In France is in the hands of the allies. The St. Gobain massif, which formed the cornerstone of the enemy's defensive system the most powerful the world has ever known was wrested from he invaders Saturday and yesterday. The big west front salient extending from the region of Cam-brai Cam-brai to Verdun is thus crumbling for its entire length and the Huns are staggering back toward the impassable Ardennes mountains. In the north there still remains the so called Valenciennes line. It is still practically untested bv allied blows, but its hastv Anconna acrtor, accordlnt to lh In-transflseant. In-transflseant. i Serbian Advance North of Nuh . By Alaoclated Preea LONDON, Oct. 14. After capturing Nlah on Saturday, Srrhlan forrea took poaaeaaion of the 'enemy poeltiona north of the town, according to the tterblan official atatement laaucd today. to-day. French cavalry haa occupied the (tela l'alanka. French Cross Oise And Seize Railway I By Aaeeclated Preda. WITH THE BKITI8H ARMY IN FRANCE. Oct. la. Reporta received at Brltleh headquarters from the French front laat nleht show the French acroaa the Oiee river north of Orlgny, seven mllee southweet of Oulae. They ara holding the railway on the eaaterly aide of the river on a front of ahont a third of amlhv construction cannot have rendered It comparable with the Hlndenburg system sys-tem which was four years In building. build-ing. LAON OCCUPIED. With ths fall of HI. Oobain foreet, from which I'arla waa so long bombarded bom-barded by long range cannon, both Laon and La Kers were occupied by the French. Passing these cities, ths French and Italians are advancing on the whole thlrtv-flve-mlle front between the Olss 2 mans wlir be forced haetlly to retreat to ths Lille-Mesleres-Meta line. The Oerman retreat Is being carried out with difficulty, owing to tha bombardment bom-bardment of rallroada by airplanea. Hrltlah troopa are reported to have outflanked Outchain and to ba advancing ad-vancing on Denaln. from which town they are only three miles distant, American forcea are advancing In the direction of Dun-eiir-Meiiee. In the and tha A lane. The allies are thus within less than twenty miles of the vital enemy center cen-ter of Hlraon at the western tip of the Ardennes, selsureo of which will definitely split the Gfrman armlea. French troopa advancing weatward In tha Guts region are about aeven tee n miles from Hlraon, while those push- 1 Ing northeastward from Laon are within eighteen mllee of the town. 1 AMERICANS AIDING. i To the eastward of Laon the French land Americana have practically cleared tha Alane bend of Germans and the' fall of Rethel and Attlgny Is Imminent Immi-nent If they have not already been topped. Still farther to the east ths Americano apparently are still encouraging en-couraging resistance between the Ar-gonne Ar-gonne and the Mouse, British and American troopa east of i Cam bra I are up against a system of' new d' fenaea which may he the out- t works of the Valenciennes line. Fighting Fight-ing In thla region haa not been productive pro-ductive of Important gains for several daya SOON TAKE DOUAI. North eaat of Cambral the British hava pushed to within eight mllee of Valenciennes Itself, while to the westward, west-ward, lxua la practically In British hands. Occupation nf Nlsh by Serbian troopa la officially admitted by both Germany and Austria. The Herba are advancing northeastward northeast-ward and westward from the city. In tha Salunlkt region the Greeke are , rapidly reoccupyin thelr-dnvaded territories, ter-ritories, IN ALBANIA. ' Tha Auatrlana, evacuating Albania, I are now menaced on three sides. In 1 addition to the Italians advancing from the south and the Herbs and French, advancing from the weet, the Auatrlana Aua-trlana are now being harassed by for nildable banda of Montenegrin irregulars irregu-lars in their rear. Vienna reported en-countera en-countera with these new forces near Ipek. .Since July It, the allies on all front a are estimated to have taken 441,200 prisoners. Moving i Toward Douai ' y Associated Press. LONDON, Oct. 14. The British are j preealng In on both aldea of Doual. Field Marshal Hatg'a official statement I today reports gains of ground both ! north and aouth of the city. The text of the atatement reads: "Yeaterday afternoon the enemy opened a heavy bombardment on a wide front north of La Cateau. Under cover of thla artillery fire strong In fantry attacks were launched agalnat our poaltlona eaat of the Belle river In the neighborhood of Holesmes. These attacks were successfully repulsed I after stiff fighting. : "Other attacks In 'which tanks were employed to support Infantry assaults were delivered by the enemy yesterday without success against our positions opposite the village of Has pros (south west of Valencennas). "Our patrola pushed forward In the course of the night at a number of polnta aoutn and north of lKual. We gained ground and took prisoners. Retreat of Huns Made Difficult y Associates Preea. FARl, Oct. 14. Newspapers here believe that aa a result of, the continuous contin-uous advance of the allies, ths Gar- |