Show I th KEY TO LINE WITH ALLIES FEARFUL EARFUL LOSSES SUSTAINED BY BYTHE BYTHE BYTHE THE HUNS WHO ARE STILL ON THE RUN What Was Believed to Be I of the German Defense In the North Has Given Way Under Allied Onslaughts With the Army Armr in Iii Tine The France The Huns ore lIre steadily lo losing ground round am 1 the J key er to the line now no seems to be in the hounds hands of the allies Fearful earful lo loses looses es have been sustained ut b b. by bythe the retreating Germans thousands o of prisoners have been tul taken en b. b by the victorious vie vic allies while guns and munItions munitions muni munI- in almost incalculable lots have haye been lost b by the fleeing The latest battle buttle of the Somme Is definitely won won there there remains only t u a little pressure to be he applied until Von Yon divisions are arc again al nIl all behind the line which bears belUs tits nis name seeking to recuperate If given time from the consequences of his miscarried mis minis- carried plans On Over r a front of oC thirty I tittles miles from tine the region of Arras Arr s to ll Peronne ronne Field Marshal Marshal Mar Mar- Haigs Haig's forces have hae III literally eru lIy smashed the German front The southern portion of the famous Drocourt switch line which hud had been heralded as ns the impregnable bulwark of the German defense In ht the north has gin given en wn way under the violence vio vio- violence lence Jence of the British onslaught over its entire front from front the river river- to a 1 stance of about ten miles mlle Already the roads to and St. St Quentin are ure thoroughly invested Invested Invested In In- vested b by the British and French armies armil while north of the time French and Americans are in positions po of vantage from which they carry out I turning movements which will outthink Loon Laon and the Dames des and md Aisne lines line Time The situation of the enemy enem viewed from the war maps is the most perilous he inns has yet Jet been in Added to the time troubles of the German high command is the situation that Is fast de developing loping in ill Flanders In the time region region region re re- gion around Ypres where the Germans daily are being forced forcell out of their theIL positions positions positions po po- b by the British and American troops hoops All 11 over this sector ector steady progress Is hein being made malle l' l eastward In the time blotting out of the salient that has lon long existed there The Americans who wino took Sunday now are arc well Into the re region in east of the town having overcome the strong stron resistance of or the Germans who endeavored ored to bar their wa way A few teP te P more strides of Haigs Haig's men in this region and Armen Armen- Beres will be within striking distance If After it Is hut but a step to Like Lille Hard liard fighting has has- been in InO progress les between the British Britten rl and Germans around Peronne where where- the Australians successfully withstood violent attacks and md have hae taken several fe thousand pris pris- Between Peronne and the Germans also laTe have Imposed stron strong opposition to the British hut but the St. St Pierre 1 nast wood and AI- AI laines and Haut Allaines all have ha he been n successfully cu IL in the tine Huge fires which were ele seen III direction on of 1 northeast of Soissons indicated l that HUlt the the enem enemy wa was war burning his supplies There is said to tobe tobe tobe be nothing else else- Inflammable in that region ion Tine The American advance in the last Just few days das has brought nn man many any thrilling in in- stances Ou Our artillery received congratulations congratulations congratulations con con- for Its work for following the infantry closely closel and mIll firing pointblank pointblank pointblank point- point blank into the pestiferous Gorman German machine gun position Our Om se seventy serenity fives fies got so toe close e that the gun crews captured the Hoeing Germans |