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Show BRIIISH GAIII INCREASES MENACE Foe Beaten Back From High Ground and Fall of Valenciennes and' Le Quesnoy Imminent y Aaeeclatad Press. IN FIERCE fighting the British continue to heat back the Germans Ger-mans from the high ground between Valrnciennea and lie Quennoy, further increasing the menac to tha German hold on both theaa Important points. In Belgium and north of Valen- rienneo tha allle maintain thalr prea- j aurt. till V r"""1" " "' minor Importance, aa tha altuatlon on lha , north dapenda upon tha Isrltlah sue- I rent around Valenciennes. Kast of I .a j rateau tha Brltleh r bfor tho Mor- i mal foreat. whila aouth, along tha Ola and tha rr. tha French ar praaa-1 ing bard against tha Germans. Rlnce Wedneaday morning the Brltlah armlea fighting forward from a few mllea north of Valenclennea to aaat of La Cateau have tmken S40 prisoners and 1100 giina. - Field Marshal Half, bis troops having hav-ing reached tha western edge of the Monnal forest, apparently la atrlring t outflank that natural barrier on tha north by advancing through Lst Quesnoy Ques-noy toward Mona and alaubeuga. Tha nermana ara fighting atlffly to prevent thla, resulting In desperate corabata In th vlllsgee asid other vantage points aouth of Valenclennea. Tha Brltlah. however, are puahlng steadily ahead and have taken Malng and Vendeglea. Fighting waa resumed on this sector Krlday morning with th Mrltlah advancing ad-vancing from th- hills aat of th Kcalllon river toward th railroad and high road between Valenclennea and 1 Quean oy. APPROACH CROSSING. Immediately north of Valenclennea th Brltlah have taken additional village vil-lage and oontlnu to approach th Important Im-portant crossing of th Bchsldt at Cond. This town la six and one-half miles northeast of Valenciennes. French troops eaat of tha Hambre-Oise Hambre-Oise canal, In tha region of Long-champa, Long-champa, hava repulsed two German attempts at-tempts to drive them back across the ranal. Along tha erra and Houch rivers tha French Friday resumed their pressure after having thrown back enemy efforts aouth of Mont Comet. In tha region eaat of tha Ola the French are reported to hava penetrated Villers-le-ftec and surrounded La Ferte to the northeast. FRENCH CROSS CANAL.. Kast of Rethel tha French made an Important advance across the" Ardennes cans), gaining the villages of Ambly and Fleury. At Ambly tha French ara only three mllea south of tha railroad Junction at Amagne, tha gaining of Which would compel the Oermana Jo withdraw from Rethel and the line7 of the Alsne In that region. American troops on both aides of the Meuse, In heavy fighting during Thursday Thurs-day night and Friday morning, made important gains at three points and maintained them against violent German Ger-man counter attacks. YANKS TAKE RIDGES. Fast of tha liver tha Americans made anotehr step toward the Important Import-ant town of Dan vi Hera, penetrating the Hols d'OrmonL On tha left and center of tha front west of tha Meuse tha Americana hava captured several Important Im-portant rldgea near Orandpre. Re. tween Rappee wood and Hanthevllle wood they also hava extended their Una. ITALIAN FRONT ACTIVE. There are Indications that activity long tha Italian front haa revived. Vienna report violent artillery fire between the Hrenta and t'lave rivers and In tha Montello aeotnr. Thla Is tha part of the Una from which an Italian attack in fwrca might be ex-ectd ex-ectd and Interesting events may develop de-velop at any time there. HOLD GROUND IN RUSSIA. Allied detachments which ara holding hold-ing tha Ivlna front In northern Rua-aia Rua-aia hava been f (treed to beat off heavy attacks by Holwhevlk troops, but have succeeded In holding their ground and even moving their lines forward j French and Herbian forces In Herbla continue to advance toward tha Ana- 1 trian frontier. Vienna admits that ! Austrian troops have retired to Jagn dtna, a village southeast of Re I grade, and about forty mllea from the boun-rtary boun-rtary between Austria and Herbta |