| Show ALLIES JILIES MORE IRE THAN HOLDING THEIR OWN HOLD HoLD GE GERMANS MANS IN THEIR ATTEMPT AT TEMPT TO REACH THE FRENCH CAPITAL i Arm Armies s Engage in Battle All Ail Day Dayon on Sunday the Allies Claiming g to Have Advanced T Their Positions From Dunkirk to Belfort the grea battle upon which hangs the fate of the Germans' Germans second drive on oo Paris ParisIs Is raging with undiminIshed fury The fighting Iii lii l France has now been In n progress over over five weeks New activities reported In dispatches from the front have haye In every case turned to the advantage of the he allies On the tho French left the allies alUes have driven back the invaders a distance of often often ten tex miles and have assumed new positions po po- po- po in front of and Also they have retaken one of the tho most tant cities near the Belgian border and a railroad center of great strategic value To the north of Arras the French and British troops succeeded In breakIng breaking break break- ing log through the German Gorman cordon established established estal there for the purpose of controlling controlling con con- trolling the lines of railway stretching to the east and so far have been able to hold the ground thus gained Also between en Arras and the river Oise Olse the tho allied lines had been advanced ad per per- Recognition of the active cooperation cooperation cooperation opera co tion of the Belgians In the fighting on em the border was contained for th the first time in official dispatches when their heir success in repulsing repeated at ati tacks directed by the Germans Germans against the cr crossing of ot the river was re re- corded Fighting has been renewed at Bel fort sort where the Germans once again ore ire assailing the fortifications with and two violent night at attacks Jt tacks by the tho Germans to the north nort rind and again to the east of St. St Die were repulsed by the French with severs severe I losses to the enemy The Germans are reported to have suffered new reverses In the fighting ja u Lorraine and to the east where the army of ot the crown prince Is in an extremely difficult position poston Not only have the French been able abla to hold the advantage gained d In their advance against the o outer ter works o of il but the they have now pushed forward fort for ward vaid their advanced positions to within nine relies miles of the fortresses Heavy reinforcements are being rushed to their aid to meet the increased in in- increased creased d strength being thrown both boti in the German line Une In this action |
