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Show HIE HUGE ! BATTLES FOUGHT vXierman Lose 15,000 . Prisoners arjd 200 Big i Guns in Four Days; Allies Win Everywhere ay Associated areas. . PARIS, Oct. 28. The battle has flared up again and heavy fighting is now under way from Valenciennes to the Meuse. The Germans are fighting well every-l every-l where, but the allies continued to make substantial progress In the task of driving back the enemy on the Mease line. rtll f'a'-"-g . been marked by no sensational de-. de-. velopenents. It Is having a cumula-' cumula-' tlve effect which, apart from the ground gained adds considerably to ' the wastage of ths men and material with which the Oermane must reckon. The last four daya the enemy has lost well up toward 16,000 prisoners and ;oo guns.. His total leasee of effectives effec-tives cannot have been lees than 40 I : .Strictly speaking, there are three large battles In progreas, all of which are being conducted with equal success suc-cess for th allies. The first Is being carried on by the British third and fourth armies, which, pushing on 1 toward Mora, have reached the Valenciennes Valen-ciennes Hlerson double track railroad The second Is the attack of General Mangtn north and east of Laon, which has resulted In a gain on a front ' of eight miles for a distance of two miles. He has carried hla line out of the swamps around Slasonea. The third battle la being fought by Oen- eral Qutllaumaut, on a front of seventeen sev-enteen miles from Plasones to Chateau Cha-teau Porclen. where the Hundlng line joins the Krlemhllde system of defences. de-fences. The average gain has been , a mile, although at some poiata ths advanoe has been greater. |