Show FRENCHMEN AIDED BY BELGIAN HEROES PENINSULA IS CAPTURED CAP CAPTURED BY THE ALLIES AFTER AFTERMOST AFTERMOST AFTERMOST MOST SPECTACULAR ADVANCE Battled Forward Over Morasses In WhicH Soldiers Sank to Armpits Germany Austro-Germany Army Shakes Entire Entire Entire En En- tire Italian Line Paris The The French advance In In Belgium Bel- Bel glum gium continues continued the war wai office reports German positions were stormed Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day ril night t and nd more more prisoners were taken The entire l peninsula near has been captured by the tho entente forces according to the BritIsh British British Brit Brit- ish official communication issued Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day evening The communication adds that additional prisoners also have havo been taken The story of th the highly important victory won by the tite French and Belgian Belian Bel Bel- ian gian armies over the marshlands of ot Flanders Sunday is the record of a 0 spectacular military operation which before its completion c l ii v would have been branded as ns impossible by the average expert c It is a story of men who bat batt battled tied their way forward aver r morasses and through water into which they sank literally to their n necks at times and with rifle litle and co coil ill steel c conquered the tale enemy in a a large and vital strip of territory which Includes udes within its borders such places places as as KIppe Merck- Merck cm em m and The striking feature of or the the- performance performance perform perform- ance ance ri e lies In is th the part played by the Belgians Belgians Bel Bel- gians ginns In the drive When the reached the neighborhood of in the afternoon and began t their assault ns- ns as sault on this pl place ce the thet Belgians who were watching from their lines lilies g across the floods joined In In inand and numbers of them piling Into the ferries poled I. I their way to the eastern shore and amI hurled themselves on the Germans concealed con conS called ceal d In concrete def defenses jn n the region region region re re- gion north of pf m yI with h such good effect effect that they quickly captured this entire northern tip of ot the so- so called Lu pe peninsula ln The German Austro-German army under the command of Emperor Charles Charles- who has bas as his chief assistant tho brIlliant brilliant brilliant bril brIl- field marshal Von Mackensen are shaking the entire Italian line from I the Julien Jullen Alps region to the tho Adriatic sea ea Pressing b back ck tile the Italians at several points on Italian soil the Combined tom tom- enemy forces now now ow have have- pushed p shed forward on OD on the Italian left wing ant and captured Cividale 1 lying Ing to the tho northeast northeast northeast north north- east of Udine and are nearing the plains beyond In addition the the- AustrIan Austrian Austrian Aus Aus- trian town of Gorizia a point of great strategic value on the X Isonzo river has been r. r retaken from the It Italians lInns According to the e Inte latest t B Berlin l n o official of of- communication communication Italians have been beeAn m made de prisoners and in ex excess excess ex excess cess of guns have fallen n into Aus Aus- tro-G tro German tro-German hands The second am and third Italian armies are declared to tobe tobe tobe be In retreat Rome Home admits the falling back of the tho second army asserting that cowardice similar to that shown by the Russians in was exhibIted iq in the tle face e. e of the he foe the he Italians Ital Ital- lans ians surrendering or retreating without without with with- out giving battle permitting the breaking breakIng break break- Ing of the left ving and ind thereby offerIng offer offer- Ing lag easy easy access to the town of dale |