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Show - FORCES niG on miii or GUIS "Peace- It Coming; Surrender," Sur-render," Hun Write to , Soldier Brother. .By Lowell Mellett United Praaa Staff Correspondent. WITH THE, BRITISH ARM1F.S IN FRANCE; Oct. 24. Tha new drlvo be-twen be-twen tha ScTieldt and tha Sambra la expected to have wida results, tha moat Important of which will be the ycomplatn turning of the Valenciennes S lines. On the front from Valenciennes northward to tha frontier of Holland German reelatanca la stiffening, Brit-lah Brit-lah patrols have managed to push across tha Scheldt at . aereral places north of Tournal. NEW TRENCH SYSTEMS. Although tha strongest opposition since tha enemy withdrawal began v ,i mmm hwKed Ml smuti trf Tnlf iii'iamigg ' there are no. signs so far of any great defensive preparations beyond slender, new trench and wire systems. Tha Germans are retiring largely upon tha atmng, natural poult lone bei hind the canal and the Rlaamea forest " and the flmnletl area, bcrwee n" IK. u aT and V a I e nc ien nea. j During the paat four daya the Oer-m Oer-m mans have withdrawn about three kll-ometara kll-ometara (two mllea every night, after holding on all day, the Hrttinh at daybreak day-break occupying the abandoned ground niid resuming their pressure. URGED TO SURRENDER. An example of tha forces preying on the minds of the German troops Is found In a letter whlch a captured private pri-vate received from his brother in Ham-burg, Ham-burg, written October 12. Tha letter reiterates five times that peace la certain cer-tain within a few daya, and urges the noMter to surrender, or avoid death In nome othr way. He surrendered to the Americans near Basuel. |