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Show BRITISH CAPTURE LENS. Germans Being Driven Back by Allied Forces. London. British patrols entered Lens between 4 and 5 o'clock Sunday morning, according to a dispatch received re-ceived from the correspondent ot i Lloyd's News with the British army in France. Describing the conditions about Lens, the correspondent wires: "Though the enemy is still in machine ma-chine gun redoubts in some places,, thes are only rearguards, for thu main body has retreated. ''Lens and Lievin had been stacked with guns and it was certain that at least 150 were in the network of mines and pit heads. "From prisoners we know that wild scenes took place in Lens, frantic ef forts being made to get away guns and stores and defend the line of retreat re-treat by blowing up the roads. "Orders were given to destroy the mines by firing charges into the pits and by flooding the mine galleries." |