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Show ALLIES PUSHINfJ FORWARD. Peace Talk Falling on Deaf Ears on the Battlefield of France. Paris. 4'euco talk pervades tho air, hut It Is falling on deaf ears ax far as tho armies of tho field nro concerned. Instead of a relaxation In tho Intensity of the fighting, new hostilities on what seemingly Is n major scale aro being carried nut by tho British, French and Belgians In Belgian Flanders. Having elenred out tho old Laon salient and made advances northward In Champagno which are menacing the retirement of tho Germans eastward toward tho Valenclcnnes-Mozleres-Metz lino. General Foch has ordered a drive In tho Lys river region of Flanders Flan-ders toward Ghent, which threatens to breuk entirely tho grip of tho Germans Ger-mans In Belgium all tho way from tho frontier to tho const, nnd llkowlso to eliminate the big bulge In the lino, with Llllo ns Its npex. At last reports, tho Germans wero ctlll falling back from the region of Laon, that town nnd the entire St. Golmln massif being In the hands of tho French. |