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Show FRENCHMEN SMASH IHE GERMAN LINE RESUME OFFENSIVE NORTH OF SOMME AND TAKE MAN PRISONERS. Bulgarian Trenches on a Front of Two Miles Captured By the French. British Make Gains In Lake Takinos Region. London. Resuming their offensive north of the Somme In France, French forces again have smashed the German Ger-man line, captured front line and other trenches and taken about 1,500 prisoners. The new attacks were made on the front from Combles to the river. So vicious was the thrust of the French that it required only half an hour for them to overcome the re-Bistance re-Bistance of the Germans and make themselves masters of three and three-quarters miles of first line trenches. East and southeast of Combles they seized additional trenches along the Bethune-Peronne northward through Bapaume and Arras to Bethune, placing plac-ing a serious impediment in the way of the Germans for the movement of their transport from the north of Per-onne. Per-onne. On the British end of the front only mutual bombardments took place. All along the Macedonian front the heavy offensive of the entente continues. con-tinues. Buj arlan trenches on a front of two miles and to a depth of 800 yards are reported by Paris liave been captured by the French west of the Vardar river near Maja-dagh, Maja-dagh, which lies about four miles eouth of Gievgeli. On te Struma front the British, aided by the French, have made additional gains east of the river in the Lake Takinos region. The army of the Teutonic allies is declared to have suffered heavy causalities caus-alities in the latter engagement. Unofficial reports are that the Bulgarians Bul-garians have evacuated the forts at Kavala on the Aegean sea, which they captured in August. While the presence of entente warships off the town is given as the reason for the withdrawal, it is not improbable that the menace of the new drive of the British and French along the Struma tj-ont hav been partly responsible for it. |