Show EW DRIVE IS MADE BY TROOPS Vs V r s NEARLY a. a i tom i THREE MILES DESPITE VIGOROUS VIG- VIG i s ORO OROUS US RESISTANCE r dt M ru euton Battlefront Battlefront Is Cru Crumbling d y Halg's Haigs Soldiers Forge Ahead In I Mervile Region Huns Huns fr J Are Taken r I If f From rom 91 to the Ule Belgian border J 1 x t the German armies armies' in various important Im im- Important sectors are being put to the ther i r 4 test by the thc French and British And It 1 r 1 is a 1 a test that seemingly bodes Ill for forthe the Teutonic arms for nowhere have t. t they ey been able to sustain the shocks f 44 of Soissons from the Aisne to the Olse Oise north of the Olse Oise i t to the region around Roye Royer In the tf Arras s. s sector and and northward on the 4 famous Lys salient s the Germans J F i everywhere have been co compelled to fall fallback ti back ck under tinder the pressure of the Ule French r 4 r J. 1 and British troops In a new offensive launched by the French general Mangin over a front en Jig of approximately fifteen and a half hl f 1 miles from Bailly on the Olse Oise to the i Aisne near SOIssons the French In terrific ter ter- t try rifle fighting have carried forward their iI line to an average verae depth of two and anda andi i 1 i a half haIt miles and find In the first phase Off of f the battle had tur turned ed to French possession pos pos- K 11 session numerous held enemy villages I r end and farms In addition more than ri Germans Germans had been herded behind fhe he line Une as prisoners At l last st reports Mangin's men were still hard after the enemy and unofficial cial chal accounts placed the French on var various various va va- r rious sectors well In advance of the tl positions outlined In the French official official cial communication i L Along the east of Arras Field vv t I r Marshal Halg's Hafg's forces have hate e kept ept up L f their harassing ta against the enemy enemy ener ene- ene r f my who has been compelled to fallback fall fallback fallback back eastward along the river r The Germans resisted vigorously but k nil all to no purpose and the British adr advanced ad ad- r their lines Unes to the east of the tho thet t Ag village village of Fampoux Although Haig Halg i claims i only a slight forward movement move move- r rz r ment meat here significance at attaches Caches to It by the reason of the fact that the Germans have been driven n back until the old battle line as lit It r fr r stood In December 1917 l I South of Roye Itoye the town of has has' h has s sI I been occupied by the t e eFrench y French after bitter fighting |