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Show ALLIES CONTINUE TO GAIN VICTORY 't( British Forces in France and B I-1 Mesopotamia Win Ground B-ji From German andurk. K H (' British forces In France are gradu- .m ally creeping upon the important town R' of St. Quentin, considered one of the Hr !j German strongholds. Northwest and 1 , southeast of the town they are swing- BgLvs " ing their lino forward in a straighten- B " ing-out movement that is making good 'r strides eastward. M Meanwhile the French forces under V ' General Nivelle are keeping up their Hp' offensive south and sout'neast of St. m' Qucnlin and again have made good lHj lotte river. They have captured sev- Hyj oral German trench systems and or- B j ganized points of support cast of Neu- Bt vIlle-sur-Margival, inflicting heavy cas- HL ,f ualtics on the Germans and driving Bf them back to the outskirts of Vaux- Bsf allldn and Laffaux. Hjft West of St. Quentin the British havo HfJ thrust their line through the village HP of Savy and tho wood of Savy and now Hf ; are resting only three miles from St. B Ji Quentin. Near Savy the Germans re- H vj slsted tenaciously, but finally were Bif1 beaten off, losing heavily in killed and B wounded. North of this region the H', villages of Vendelles, on tho St. Quen- H-. tln-CroIsllles road, and Epehy and Pel- K zieres havo been taken by Field Mar- H : fihal Haig's forces. B Admits Retreat. HrJl The German war office admits that Hilji Uie German line for a distance of from H I one and a quarter to two miles was H, 'J forced to give way before the British Bji'i s " " Jn the region bounded by tho Peronne- H Gouzeacourt road and tho Omlgnon B . brook, but says the British suffered Sheavy losses. Artillery duels and small operations carried out by raiding parties continued contin-ued on the remainder of the front in 1 Franco and Belgium. The artillery ac- kJ tivjty is especially sovero on tho Bel- H gian front and in Champagne. H.' ' Comparative quiet prevails in "Rus- H j sla and Galicia. Kirlebaba, in tho HTi southeastern Carpathians, Austrian Kuy troops in repeated attacks broke into Bp Russian trenches, but were later eject- H j ed in a counter attack. Teutonic al- jftt lies attack south of the Jacobeny-Val- B Putna road on the Rumanian front HL wns put down by tho Russian artil- Bn" lerv an(l nn airship was sot on fire by ftt I Russian airplanes and gunfire near HPi Odobechtl. Turkish Troops Retreat. K'j The London war office reports the f l fruslration by the British of a Turkish Htt-"' attempt to envelop them near Deltah- HM wah, thirty-five miles north of Bagdad, BlU1 and says the Turks there now are in HSf full retreat. Turkish attacks on the HL Caucasus front near Alma, northwest HEt1 of Erzingaa, have been put down by KTjw- the Russians. Rh t Heavy Austrian attacks that are de Kiri' clared to have met with failure are re- Hwj ported by Rome in the Gorl;:la sector Hfcj.. of tho Austro-Italian theatre. Violent br artillery activity still continues east HEi of orizia and tho Carso front. Bl There has been no change in the sit- Hi uation in Macedonia. HRSl! oo . |