Show i NIB NIBBLING AT f t THE GERMAN LINE it LULL LULL IN FIGHTING IN WEST PRELUDE ELUDE TO HEAVY BLOWS r f f BLOWS BLOYS J ALLIES BY THE ALLIES i J J American Tro Troops ps Advancing AI Along ng t L Moselle MOSel River While British and andi i French Advance and Serbians Spring Surprise on r f d- d With the Army Array in France Amerl American Ameri Ameri- can troops on the right wing of General Gen Gen- oral eral Pershing's army have reached on the Ule Moselle a little littlemore littlemore more than a mile mlle west est of the German border and halfway between Pont Pont-A- Mousson and Sur While the Serbs and their French allies are arc wresting from the some of the strongest positions they t have haye held In Macedonia for two years Marshal Fochs Foch's forces are arc nibbling successfully successfully successfully suc suc- at nt the German lI es on the Ule western front in the face of more determined determined determined de de- resistance The Near East furnishes the most sensational news bo hot er The ot ot- which has been launched there seems not only the Ule most successful r but the Ule most pretentious In n many months It appears probable that a further advance by tae Ser Franco bian blan troops will the recall of the Bulgarian divisions which have havo Wen been been loaned to Emperor William to Bolster bolster the Ule resistance in France and Flanders An official Serbian report declares the rec reconstructed army of the theN N battered battered but not beaten little kingdom kingdom kingdom king king- dom dom has taken not only prisoners K but an nn Important park of cannon Thes The s admit having retired but de- de delare lare the attack has been checked to to the he north of There is nothing to indicate however that the Advance of the Serbs and French has hns been definitely held Ul up Lull Thought Prelude to Heavy Blows The lull in the the fighting in the west h Is regarded by military critics as merely the prelude to heavy blows at atthe atthe r the foe by bythe the Americans British and y French armies The British advanced their lines slightly at severa several points They are arepIa pIa puking making king steady progress in the investment Invest invest- ment of St. St Quentin a It difficult task under tinder most favorable conditions General Petain's veterans are forging forging forging forg forg- ing ahead slowly but surely in their tT grim and desperate struggle for the St. St forest which the Germans Germans' shave have been ordered to hold at all costs Not only is the position a natural city cita citadel del but the have fortified it in every way their ingenuity could devise Notwithstanding the difficulty of their task however the French are moving on taking prisoners as they go |