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Show GREAT GAINS ARE , . SGOREOBY ALLIES BRITISH AND FRENCH FORCES DRIVE BACK THE INVADING INVAD-ING GERMANS. Advance a Mile on a Front of Twelve Miles After Three Days of Most Colossal Bombardment of the War. London. Attacking simultaneously on an arc of fifteen miles, running from Martinpuich to the Somme, the British and French forces have delivered deliv-ered another smashing blow on the German lines and pushed forward yielr positions for notable gains. From Martinpuich to Combles, a distance of six miles, the British have driven In their wedge to a depth of more than a mile, and captured in the attack the Important strategic towns of Lesbeoufs and Morval, the latter a scant mile north of Combles. The capture of Morval by the British Brit-ish and of part of Fregicourt by the French apparently seals the fate of Combles, which the Germans have determinedly de-terminedly held for weeks, despite the violent attacks thrown against it. Tba defenders of the virtually surrounded sur-rounded town have left to them tor escape only the valley, a mile in width, running northnortheast, and in the traversing of which they must come under the guns of the British and French, respectively, from Morval and the vicinity of Fregicourt. Another notable step In their approach ap-proach upon Peronne is marked in the capture by the French of trenches in the Canal Du Nord region. Except in France there have been no important engagements on any of the various fronts. Berlin reports the repulse re-pulse of Russian attacks in Volhynia, Galicia and the Carpathian mountains. Petrograd is still silent as to the operations op-erations on the eastern front, but unofficial un-official advices say the Russians have begun a new offensive on a large scale in the hope of putting down the counterattacks coun-terattacks of the Teutons "and piercing pierc-ing their front before winter seta In. The Roumanians are sill sruggling for supremacy over the Teutonic allies al-lies in the Szurduk and Vulcan passes of the Transylvanian Alps, but according accord-ing to Berlin all their attacks have been replsed. |