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Show ! AMERICANS SPLIT GERMAN ARMY GAP THROUGH WHICH HUN TRIED TO RUN BLOCKED PY YANKS By United Pratt. LONDON, Nov. 4. The Stenay gap through which the German Ger-man armies expected to pass in their retirement south of the Ardennes Ar-dennes has hcen rendered untenable by the newest American advance, ad-vance, it was indicated in the American official communique today, j American troops have passed Stenay on the west, cutting the line of communication between Stenay and Beaumont. The German Ger-man armies have thus been virtually split, so-far-as-freedom of maneuver is concerned. By Atiociattd Prats. Smashing blows are being; dealt the Germane on the western front, and the collapse of the present enemy defense posittona appeara clone at band. n the Italian 'thenrVe hostilities were to end today at B p. m. o'clock Monday mornine: In the Kaslern I'nited States but up' to that hour the I Italian and -allied forces continued to press the Austrlans on the entire front, the advice indicated. On the, northern end of tho front In France, Field Mu rutin I Haig . launched a new attack today south of tho .Scheldt in tho region of Valen-iennen. Valen-iennen. Tho operation began auc-af auc-af reaafully on a wide front, and this vital sector of the German positions la In great peril. The French army maintains Its presaure. hut" fighting activity la less than on SuiuIhv and I ant week. German Ger-man artillery ha been active a Ions; tho Aiane front, probably protecting an enemy retirement, which Is Inevitable In-evitable In vt-w of the allied success north and cast. . (funeral IVrnhinc's armies are press-Ins; press-Ins; forwnrd east and west of the Meuse. and the German apparently are not yet prepared to make a stand. , t-tenuy is beittK encircled end its fall mi Id a ppea r to be nea r. In tho center of the m-rtnr west of the Meuso the American First army has dnen forward to Hommauthe, thirteen miles south of Sedan, tho . most Important German railway center between MeJiieres and Metz. |