Show BERMANS HAVE WRED C 1 PT ll 11 I 1 LE ALLIES EVACUATE TOWN AFTER FIGHTING desperately FOR PAST TWO WEEKS frenchmen claim to have reoccur aed positions lost loaf last week to germans and are more strongly In trenched than ever the normana have captured lille about which thero there has been furious fui loua for tho the past two weeks this was ivas admitted in paris on tuesday roye aloye also has been occupied by the germans whose counter claril cing movement against the aules allies left wing Is reported to bo gaining in strength until it threatens to sweep swiftly toward tho the coast co tot this gorman german advantage Is counteracted by tho the marked progress recorded for tile the allies in the region between arras arrab and albert to the southwest of lille was ivas evacuated tuesday by a detachment of french and the gorman german force Is reported to have numbered a full corps they were tho the troops that had been active in tho the vicinity of lille seclin cary t inan antl and deual tho the french war office reports appreciable preci able progress at several points along the front on tho the left tho the french have resumed the offensive in the region of hazebrouck and bethune Ile thune I 1 against the cavalry and in infantry fantry moving from tile the gorman german line extends extending ng from ballieul Bail loul to la basso through i Es baires in the fighting fur further ther toward the franco belgian border the i fourth german cavalry corps has been driven back to the north of the lys jo i toward Arment lera lers and two other corps of the invaders have been 4 plopped in their advance between the lys and the la basse canal unusually severe fighting has marked the engagements along tho the front of the left wing ot of the allies who after having been forced to give ground toward the end of last week ii have now re occupied their lost positions and are declared to be more piron strongly gly In trenched than ever this 4 will have important bearing on the pt tempt to beat back tho the german raid on the seacoast eca Aea coast as it will be upon I 1 this army arms of the allied front that rein if forc for onienta cements will have lave to bo be drawn i from in I 1 sudden emergencies the battle on french soil has haa now been in progress for thirty days the 4 H 11 being almost ancess incessant nt tho weather except for some S chilly nights Is ideal for military i operations even the men occupy occupying in exposed trenches havo have recovered from the damp spell duty ir in tho the cloge operations ails now thoroughly organized the dig sing ong continues ail tho time and the I 1 I 1 ir ren enches ches of the opposing armies up lip i aroah h to within yards of cadi father at some places tho the men in hese ditches especially along the 1 ine from reims to the mouse meuse have een cen inactive often during the past kew hew days and voices often ring out rom tte shelters calling upon one to come out and fight j some ot of thomen alie men havo have become very aring the life lit in the burrows with the turn at rifle firing being 0 o monotonous that they so go butiu out lu bearch earch of adventure the 0 B o not an inch of ground ove aich oue itie great battle has been rag ig g which daes not show traces of tho the awful character of tho battle the awn wn of albert Is a mass of rufas only A church steeple remaining standing oye has disa disappeared speared under constant bombardment it was waa the center of ke e german effort to break through e allied lines the german artillery cad kid taken advantage of many quarries I 1 I 1 the vicinity where they placed guns S idich were beyond tho reach of the ench artillery |