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Show GERMAN SOLDIERS ARE GIVENI REST ALLIED FORCES CONTINUE WITK SUCCESS THEIR DRIVES ON IMPORTANT SECTORS American 16-Inch Naval Guns Arc Hammering the Huns Railway Centers Cen-ters Back of Oise-Serre, Being Operated by American Boys. London. Germany's hard - pressed: soldiers are being given no rest as the British. French and American, forces continue with success their drives on important sectors from north of Valenciennes to east of the Mease-Meanwhile Mease-Meanwhile the Italians are pushing ahead in the region of Monte Grappa.. The Americans, British, French, Italians Ital-ians and Belgians have all been victorious vic-torious on the -western front, ami as-there as-there are plenty of reserves to lie-thrown lie-thrown in whenever it becomes necessary, neces-sary, General Foch will undoubtedly hold the whip hand to the end, which may come at any time. One of the important events of the; putit week on the western front was. the placing of American IC-inch naval, guns in position and their participation in the operations. These guns are hammering the German railway centers cen-ters back of the Oise-Serre front. They are operated by officers and men of tile United States navy, under command com-mand of Bear Admiral Plunkett. On the eastern front the success of the allies is of the utmost importance-The importance-The French have crossed' the Danube into Rumania and captured many prisoners pris-oners and much war material. The Serbians continue in pursuit of the enemy on the Paracin-Karalievo front,, and some hundreds of prisoners have-been have-been taken during the week. The-Austrians The-Austrians are getting out of Serbia as fast as they can, for the troops have-lost- their morale and no longer make-any make-any pretense of fighting manfully in. the field. Conditions in Austria are even worse than in Germany, and disintegration of the empire is in progress. Hungary-is Hungary-is now an independent country, and the emperor has announced that he is. reconciled to the resurrection of the-kingdom the-kingdom of Poland. The British have resumed their offensive of-fensive against the Turks in Mesopotamia, Mesopo-tamia, and success is following their efforts. Albania is being evacuated by the enemy and the allies have been, uniformly successful on the Archangel front. The capture of German suh- I marine bases on the Belgian coast, together to-gether with the activity of the allied ; fleets, has practically annihilated the-L'-boat menace, and the northern European Eu-ropean neutrals are preparing to bring: home food to the starving people. |