Show I FORGE FORCE HUNS I 1 ON MANY FRONTS BRITISH FORCES ADVANCE ON YARD FRONT AND REACH LYS SECTOR Bodies Roches Penetrate Haip's Halg's Haigs Line Lin Northwest North North- Northwest Northwest west of Chaulnes ButAre Immediately Immediately Imme- Imme Immediately Driven Back Again The Germans on three important sectors of the western battlefront have been compelled to give up positions of great strategic value under the onslaughts onslaughts on on- of the British and 11 French Frencl troops In the Lys sector west of Armen the enemy has hils retreated over a n front of nearly six miles leaving le the town of Merville 1 In British hands Between Between Be Be- tween yeen the Matz and Oise Olse rivers the French have fought their way to the western outskirts of or the dominating position of Lassigny and farther south in this hill hlll and wooded region have debouched debouched de do- from the Thiescourt wood and also ulso captured the town of Pimprez situated situated sit sit- In the Olse Oise valley alle on the Noyon road Around the curve In the battle line northwest of Soissons the French from near Carlepont to Fontenoy on the Aisne a distance of approximately nine miles have driven back the enemy t to an un average depth of more than a 11 amile amile mile mlle and captured several villages and 2200 prisoners Unofficial reports record the capture by the British tIsh of the railway sta station on fhe he western outskirts of Rose Roye one of the pivotal points on the battlefront between the Somme and the Olse Oise The gains are most Important for forthe the allies for aside from wide areas over which the enemy has been compelled to I acknowledge defeat the weakening Inthe in inthe inthe the German defense is is becoming daily dally more noticeable Within a short time tune they probably will be forced to comI commence commence commence com com- I mence a retrograde movement on ascale ascale a n scale that will mean the entire blotting out of old lines Unes and the taking up of new ones to the east and southeast possibly from the region of Rheims to Ypres |