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Show EllllES ON SUIPPE COLLAPSE Hun General Retreat - Extend to Champagne Sector; British, Yanks and Poilus Advancing y Aaaoclat.S Prsss. ' THE Gorman lines along the Suippe river in the Champagne Cham-pagne sector in France have collapsed. Progress made by the French during the past day in this part of the battlafront would Mm to Indicate thst , the MMmy'i retreat northward la mora of a Might than an orderly retirement - French foroM are reported to have reached tha Retourne river IwlwMn Houdlleeourt and Bault Rt. Hemy. Houdlleeourt la less than lour miles east jot Nsufchatel, ona of tha principal prin-cipal Oerman basaa back of tha Champagne front. Thla advance brings tha French up to within two .. and one-half mllee of the Alane river and threatena the railroad line that parallala that atream. Further eaat tha Frenoh have not advanced ao swiftly, but have made food progreea. OAIN NEAR ARQONNI. Near the .Argonns foroat General Oonraud'a man have awapt northward and are officially reported to he less than two mllee from Vousleres, an ' Important railroad Junction. Thay are near Bugny and have almost reached MsnhsulL Franch and Italians have moved rapidly alone the Chemln daa Damaa and northward from the Alane. Thay have reached the vicinity of Allies, which la on the ridge between tha Alletta and the Alane, eoulheaat of . Laos. BURN MORE VILLAGES Biasing villages In the valley of the Olee are reported In the Franch official of-ficial statement. Thla refer to the action In the vicinity of I-a Fare. Theea fires are evidence that the enemy la preparing to abandon that region, as wall aa the high, wooded maea'.f of ftt. Oobaln. Raat of St Quentln and Cambral tha French, British and Americana are still moving eastward, but their advance Is being retarded by Oarman rear guards. The allied progreea, however, appears rapid enough to threaten aerloua reaulta to the German Ger-man armlee to- the aouth, which are also' menaced by the eollanse of the enemy llnea In the Champagne sector. RITISH NIAR LILLE. - Between Lens and T)oual tha Britten are sweeping over a wide . . .. front and have moved up to within atriktng diatance of Doual and Lille. From the Argonne foreat aaatward to tha high ground eaat of the Meuee. the - American army haa made new progreaa near Orandpre. Farther eaat the village of Homagna la now clnee to the American line, uid fierce fighting fight-ing has been going on there. Oennan reals' jince haa been despemts, and - - . the fighting at of the Meuse haa .. . alao been most strenuous.. ATTACK AUITRIANS. Allied troopa have bean attacking the Austrian poaltlona In the mountain moun-tain a actor of tha Italian front Thla fighting appears to have been merely a local operation, but tha combat haa apparently been eevare. |