Show GERMANS PRESSED BACK ON ALL SlOES ENTENTE FORCES HAMMERING HUNS FROM ARRAS TO THE VERDUN SECTOR K Kaisers Kaiser's Forces Badly Defeated In Belgium Removing Guns In in ReadIness ReadIness Read Read- Iness for Retreat Back to fl German Soil P Paris Germany and Aus Hungary tria-Hungary are le clamoring for peace pence the entente allied gO governments thus far are ue paying Ing scant heed to the pro pro- proposals but their are pressing for forward card to further urthel victories on aUl all aU l fronts Over a wide extent of territory outlined outlined out out- lined by II burning villages th the Germans Ger- Ger mans mans are retreating rapidly before General Gouraud's troops They Ther are crowded b by General Berthelot's Berthelots forces from the west and In dan danger er of being cut off oft b by the Franco Americans who ha have ve crossed the Agnes Arnes river On the battlefront the Germans everywhere c are arc being forced forced to give glye ground roun to the allied troops In Bellum Belgium Bel- Bel glum gium lum the enem enemy Is gradually being beng pushed eastward and in anticipation of u n forced final withdrawal al Is continuing continuing con con- conI I to I make mke read ready for that eventuality even eyen- by removing his guns an and i otherwise lessening the value of his hs I defensive works In the territory upon and adjacent to the the North s sea a coast The past wee week has seen one victory after another by the allies To the south from Arras to the Verdun Verdun Ver Yer- dun sector ector the G Germans arc being lard har pressed by hy the British AmerIcan American Ameri Amen can can Italian and French forces and p although though on numerous sectors the they pre re still offering de desperate resistance rests rests- tance they the seemingly are ure unable to todo tolo do lo more than retard the advance nd of their foes Douai south of Lens Lem Is s almost enveloped en en- eloped and mcl CaI bral has been further fur fur- timer ther endangered through the capture of bf the time village of aux Bols aux J five C m miles les to the southeast t w where were ere more than 1000 Germans were ma made e prisoner sorer Hard lIar fi fighting has taken talen place dace n. n around rou 1111 and Benu- Benu revoir rc n n the immediate vicinity where J Germans have brought up fresh l' l reserves PS in an endeavor to keep Held Marshal Haigs Haig's men from cut- cut ling the hl highly hl Important St. St QuentIn QuentIn- J Le Je e Gateau Cateau road rond from which the they now no lire arc but hut a step Both Beaurevoir n and Montbrehain are now In British hands With the Germans being defeated over I wI wide e areas l y the French trench and Americans from 1 to the Aronne Ar- Ar Ionne onne forest the Italians south of Laon Inon have begun an offensive which seemingly has as Its objective e the finishing fin fin- ng of the work previously begun l Ii h y the French for the obliteration of La Ia Fere ICIe an and Laon In the Mace Macedonian onlan theater the allied al al- al- al lied fled troops have ha mange compelled the Austrians Aus- Aus tHans to withdraw from the El EI Basan sector fector and other positions while near central Serbia the time French on end ond Serbian troops have ha captured German Austro-German hel held positions positions' In Jn the latter re region Ion the enem enemy is retiring north northward ar in disorder AND LENS EVACUATED ENEMY'S FAMOUS DEFENSE SE IS FALLING BEFORE FURIOUS ATTACK OF OP ALLIES Fortified Positions Between and St. St Quentin Definitely Smashed and Routers Entered by Belgians in Drive to the Sea Paris Lens ParIs Lens the heart of the great coal region in northern I France au and almost equally Important as ns a n manufacturing center have been evacuated b by the Germans the Uie German German Gernan Ger- Ger man nan fortified positions between Cambrai Cam- Cam brat brai and St. St Quentin have e been definitely den den- smashed u and l the Hun Austro-Hun- garlaus in Albania forsaken b by the Bulgarians their thell former allies nilles are InI in I fun full ull retreat northward from the A Adrin- Adrin I tIc Ic sea to Lake a Of there conquering of Inva Invaded e Belgium Bel Bel- gium nn and the time pro progress ress of the French nn and nd Franco American forces respectively respectively el north of and eastward In of Verdun Yer- Yer n Champagne to the vicinity dun un the tale remains the time the sane same the Germans slowly but surely are being forced force er e everywhere here to give ground and theIr heir vital defenses daily continue to tobe tobe toe be e eaten Into not notwithstanding ln the time strong trong resistance against the time efforts of f the allies to close In on all aU sl sides es of the he great battle arc from the time North Northen son sea en to the Swiss border nn and compel the he German high comman command to reconstruct recon recon- Its fighting line Belgians Enter Routers In Belgian Flun Flanders ers the Belgian French and amI British troops are keeping up p their eastward progress In their endeavors en- en ors deavors to compel the Germans tanS to give gl up p Ostend and Zeebrugge ge their naval bases on the North orth sea the important railway June junco junction tIon ion with its lines of steel radiating to o the North Korth sea and amI eastward to Ghent has been heen entered b by the Bel- Bel i glans lans an and at to the north King Alberts Albert's men are virtually upon the he Ostend Bruges Ostend railway To I the he south an and are seriously seriously se- se menaced Acro Across s the border In France the capture capure cap cap- tune ture ure of brit brings brits s Lille capital capt capi- tal al of the department of the Nord within striking distance and the eva eva- of l. l Lens places Donal the fotre fortess fortress fort fort- re ess ress s northeast of Arras and nil all the time t territory ter- ter r- r between Arras and amid yin vir- t all In the hands of the British |