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Show ISsWstoT onrush of allies FRENCH AND ENGLISH FORCES BATTLING DESPERATELY TO DRIVE OUT THE INVADERS. Germans Occupy Favorable Country and are Well Entrenched and are Putting up Bitter Fight Against Allied Forces. French and English forces are battling bat-tling desperately to drive the German invaders from French soil, and from i'the most reliable sources comes the news that a desperate battle, even more fierce than the battle of Marne, is in progress, and has been for a week past. While no direct reports have been received from the battle front in northern France, it is apparent from the meager official statements that the allied forces and the German armies are again drawn up for a great battle, bat-tle, which, in the opinion of military observers, may last several days. The Germans occupy favorable country coun-try and are well entrenched. The allies, al-lies, as well as the Germans, are receiving re-ceiving reinforcements and both British Brit-ish and French are using their utmost endeavors to improve the advantage they gained during the retirement of the Germans beyond the river Aisne and into the hills north of Rheims. The official statement issued at Paris merely announces that there hay been no change in the situation. An earlier official statement showed that the Germans were offering strong resistance re-sistance on the French left wing, while in the center they continued to fortify forti-fy themselves, and in other districts were well entrenched. That the Germans are in strong force and have behind them plenty of artillery is admitted by the French officials of-ficials and is further emphasized by tha- fact that they have undertaken several counter attacks in the past day or two. On the late operations the British war offic is silent, but an official account ac-count ef the operations of the British army during the period from September Septem-ber 10 to 13 has been issued by the official press bureau, showing that though the British troops had hard fighting they made a steady advance In co-operation with, the French, through a territory which was crossed by numerous rivers and offered many obstacles to a forward movement. German official statements from Berlin, by way of London, report that the German dirigible airships have fulfilled all expectations; that none, of them have beea destroyed or captured, cap-tured, although some of them have been damaged; that the subscriptions to the German war loan have succeeded succeed-ed all expectations; that German colonial colo-nial troops have successfully attacked the Uganda railway and that the Servian Ser-vian forces which crossed the River Save have been repulsed everywhere. In Galicia and East Prussia, Aus-trians, Aus-trians, Germans and Russians continue their stupendous conflicts. |