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Show GERMANS PRESSED " BACK ONALL SIDES ENTENTE FORCES HAMMERING. HUNS FROM ARRAS TO THE VERDUN SECTOR. Kaiser's Forces, Badly Defeated ini Belgium, Removing Guns in Readiness Read-iness for Retreat Back to German Soil. Paris. While Germany and Austria-Hungary are clamoring for' peace the entente allied governments thus far are paying scant heed to the pro- posals, but their armies are pressing forward to further victories on all fronts. Over a wide extent of territory, outlined out-lined by burning villages, the Germans Ger-mans are retreating rapidly Ivc-foro General Gouraud's troops. They are crowded by General Bertbeloi's forces from the west and in danger of being cut off by the Franco-Americans, who have crossed the Arnes river. t)n the battlefront the Germans everywhere are being forced lo give ground to tlie allied troops. In Bol- f;ium the enemy is gradually being nishetl eastward, and in anticipation inf a forced final withdrawal is continuing con-tinuing to make ready for that eventuality even-tuality by removing his guns and otherwise lessening the value of his defensive works in the territory upon and adjacent to the North sea coast. The past week has seen one victory after another by the allies. To the south from Arras to the Verdun Ver-dun sector the Germans are being hard pressed by the British, American, Ameri-can, Italian and French forces, and, although oiv numerous sectors they are still offering desperate resistance, resis-tance, they seemingly are unable to do more than retard the adyance of their foes. Douai, south of Lens, is almost enveloped, en-veloped, and Cambrai has been further fur-ther endangered through the capture pf the village of Aubencheul-nux-Bois, five miles to the southeast, where piore than 1000 Germans were made prisoner. Hard fighting has taken place around Monfbrehaiu and Beau-revoir, Beau-revoir, in the immediate vicinity, --where --where the Germans have brought up fresh reserves in an endeavor to keep Field Marshal Haig's men from cutting cut-ting the highly important St. Quentin-Le Quentin-Le Cateau road, from which they now are but a step. Both Beaurevoir and Montbrehaiu are . now iu British hands With the Germans being defeated over wide areas by the French and Americans, from Rheims lo the Argonne Ar-gonne forest, the Italians south of Laon have begun an offensive, which seemingly has as its objective the finishing fin-ishing of the work previously begun by the French for the obliteration of La Fere and Laon. In the Macedonian theater the allied al-lied troops have compelled the Aus-trians Aus-trians to- withdraw from the El Basan sector and other positions, while near Yranje, central Serbia, the French and Serbian troops have captured Austro-Gernian held positions'. In the latter region the enemy is retiring northward in disorder. |