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Show TEN ARMIES SMASHING GERMANS Using: Powerful UniU aa Crowbars. FochI Prying Loose Teuton Grip on North France By Webb Miller United Preee Staff Correspondent. PARIS, Oct. 2. Ubidb . ten armies a great crowbar, Marshal Foch is relentlessly pry-. pry-. ing off the pillar, of the German front. At fifteen distinct points tha crowbars crow-bars hava subbed deep Into vital rlacee In the enemy Unas, and sra being be-ing shoved horns. At least four of the pillars Roulers, Mtnln. Csmbral and Ht. Quentln are (ottering, while tha wirnace to the oth-era oth-era 4a looming larger every hour. I Tha polnta of Foch a crowbars are ten to fifteen miles tn width at soma points) aad at others they are only a few thousand yarda. Among tha moat Important reaulta ef the advance In tha north are tha meaaoes to concentration centwra and disorganisation of the Oermane' lateral lat-eral communication llnea. tinllNl aiiau on. Poeelbly tha moat Interaatlng move-snant move-snant under way la between tha North sea aad Mile, where King Albert and Ueneral Mummer are puahlng on with wonderful sueceaa. which la highly dan-e-eroufc te tha Oermane because, un-leaa un-leaa it la stopped. It will mean the fall of Oetend and Zeebrugg. . Both the gravity with which tho Carmana regard this oontlngenoy snd tha etate of General Vfn Uudendorfts naerroa are ahown by tha appearance nf dlvlalona on the Prlglan front whlfle hnva been ruahed from polnta a hundred hun-dred mllea dnwn tha Una. Plummer end tha Belgian monarch ere aeeompltahlng a double purpoae by elmultaneoualy edging around to the . north of Lille, while Oeneral Hornc, further south. Is atrlklng between Cambral and Doual. thua drawing a blj half-circle around tha Important city of Lille, and tha great induatrlal and can) baaln. aSKMANS SMASHED. Meanwhile. Oenarala Home and Byng, Rawllnaon and Debeny are tightening their grip upon Cambral and Ht. Quentln by driving crowbars In on either side and between each town. Farther eoejth Oeneral Mangln la rolling ahead, ehovlng tha Oermane off tha t'hetnln dea Itamea helghta. Oeneral Oen-eral Berthelot, amaahlna thera on Man-gin's Man-gin's right, as tar eaat aa, Khelma, la baatenlng their withdrawal here. On tha extreme south of tha great battle front, Oeneral Perahtng la alow-ly alow-ly puahlng ahead agalnat the moat bitter bit-ter reelatance and ta overcoming tha difficult natural obetaclea in tha Ar-goana Ar-goana foreaL Oeneral (louraud a new attache, on Perahlng's left, hava won conslderabla auoeeaa. |