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Show oo FAMOUS SALIENT IS GIVING WAT Enemy Compelled to Give Ground Under Criss-Cross of Haig's Fire. (By The Associated Press.) Gradually the famous Lys salient in the region west of Armentieres, is giving giv-ing way under iho pressure of the British. Again Field Marshal Haig's forces havo compelled the enemy to seek ground to the eastward where ho will bo more secure from tho shells of the big guns that for several weeks have been firing criss-cross over the entire salient, working havoc among the defenders of the insecure line. The Germans are being given no rest by the Franco -British forces north and south of the Somme, and tne French and Americans along the Vcsle. The Americans in Lorraino are harassing tho enemy by artillery fire and local attacks. Nowhere has tho enemy had the better of any counter. 0er the front of four miles between be-tween Bailleul and Vioux Berquin on the Lys sector, the British have advanced ad-vanced from 1000 to 2000 yards, taking tak-ing the village of Outtersloen and 400 prisoners. A little to the south along the Lys near Morville the British havc advanced their line and still farther south, between Arras and Albert, the Germans have been relieved, under pressure of further terrian near Buc-quoy. Roye Still in Jeopardy. While, as a whole, the German Iiuo between the Somme and the Oise is still holding the British have drawn nearer tho road from Chaulnes to Rove between Chilly and Franzart, placing Roye In greater jeopardy from the north. To the south of Roye. over the four-mile front between Beuvraignes and Canny-Sur-Matz, a violent artillery artil-lery duel is raging. Here the French arc endeavoring to outflank both Rove and Lassigny by a drive eastward "in the direction of the road leading southeastward from Roye to Noyon. Their efforts have been" successful. German Line Thinly Held. Along the Vesle where the Americans Ameri-cans and French are holding tho line, there has been considerable reciprocal i artillery shelling. The allies gave the1 enemy two shells for one. An Indication Indica-tion that tho German line immediately immediate-ly in front of the French and Americans Ameri-cans Is thinly held is the fact that American patrols at various points have penetrated sectors to the enemy's I barbed wire entrenches without encountering en-countering infantrymen, j In Lorraine where the Amorlcanr, captured the village of Frapelle, near SL Die, Saturday morning they have pressed on and gained more ground notwithstanding a heavy bombardment. |