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Show PARIS, July 27. Further advances were scored by the French last night in the region immediately to the north of the Marne in tHe district where the Germans have been clinging to the river. The war office announced today that the French j lines were advanced to the north of Port-a-Binson. ' On the Champagne front the French carried out a local ' operation in the region south of the mountain without a name, as a result of which their lines were advanced nearly two-thirds of a mile on a front of approximately two miles. The French took 200 prisoners in this operation. The statement follows: I "On the right bank of the Marne French troops have ad vanced their lines north of Port-a-Binson. "On the Champagne front the French carried out a local operation in the region south of the mountain without a name and advanced one kilometer over a front of three kilometers. Two hundred prisoners, of whom seven were officers, have fallen into the hands of the French." WASHINGTON, July 27. The capture of Le Channel $&uhy 'American 'forces in -their advance between the'Ourcq"'and' the Marne is reported in General Pershing's communique for yesterday, received today at the war department. -i (By tho Associated Press.) Shifting their blows to the southern arc of the sector between Soissons and Rhcims, the French have struck the German line at Pont-a-Binson on the south side of the Marne and about a mile south of Chatillon. It is officially reported from Paris that the French lines were advanced at that point. Further east on the Champagne sector sec-tor the troops of General Gouraud south of Montagne Sans Norn has pressed forward over half a mile along a front of almost two miles. The advance east of, Rhcims was seemingly for the purpose of restoring I the allied line. The attack at Port-a- Blnson, however, had another object, i German troops were reported early In 1 1 tho week at Marfaux and Pourcy, ! northeast of Chatillon and soirth of the western spurs of Rhcims mountain. A i considerable success near Chatillon would put them in a pocket within the larger pocket. West of Port-a-Binson the Germans hold the north bank of the Marne for a considerable distance and the French apparently have struck at the angle between the German line along the river and that from the Marne toward Rheims. Along the vestern side of the German Ger-man salient there is no official mention men-tion of events of special importance ( last night. i German Artillery Active. LONDON, July 27 The German artillery was active again last night In the angle between the Alsne and the Ancro rivers, today's war ofilco report shows. Both the British and tho enemy artillery displayed activity further north in the sector of. La Bas-see Bas-see canal. The statement reads: "During the night our raiding par-j par-j tic3 entered the enemy's lines in the ' 1 neighborhood of Sailly Lauret, Neu-f Neu-f flile Vltasse, Arleux en Gohellc and J Lens, and brought back soveral prls- oners. iy "The hostile artillery was active last . night between the Somme and tho ; Anere rivers on behalf of the artillery in the vicinity of the La Bassee canal sector." .1 Franco-Americans Advancing, j WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT, July 27.-8. 30 a. in. (By tho Associated Press.) The Franco -American forc- PH J 5 on the front northeast of Chateau i falerry have driven the Germans nl- most entirely out of the wooded area j i hlch they havo been so stubbornly i i defending. The allied pressuro Is being ; constantly maintained and early today iff the punishment of the enemy by artil-'J: artil-'J: leiy uro wag resume(i with added vT' Under cover of the guns, the C franco -American troops again began v j crawling forward. , J Tho advance is bringing the allies still nearer to the important road Junction of Fere-en-Tardenois. It 13 ; ' being carried out through tho remaln-, remaln-, 1 der of the dense woods In this region j and over the rain -soaked fields and - juils on their outskirts. Slowly rctreat-, rctreat-, 'nB. the Germans are fighting stub- ' "dy.as they retire. ) Persistent as was the rear guard h erman defense, the enemy's most in-,ij in-,ij umse efforts to hold his lines are still ! t J?n,8 P"t forth on his flanks in the , wueims and Soissons section. 30,000 GERMAN PRISONERS. PARIS, July 27. The number of German prisoners captured by the allies al-lies since the beginning of the counter-offensive is placed at 30,000 by the Tavas agency. American troops have discovered at Brecy, north of Chateau Thierry, emplacements em-placements of German- super-cannon which bombarded towns behind the front and, perhaps, Paris. MORNING REVIEW OF WAR SITUATION. (By Associated Press.) Tho allied artillery is pouring a heavy fire on the German bases within with-in the Marno salient. The entire region re-gion is within tho range of tho big guns and, as on the previous days, they continue to hammer the enemy unceasingly. Allied airmen havo increased in-creased tho intensity of their bombing operations. From tho Ourcq to the Marno and along the Marne the Germans have been cleared almost entirely from the Fere and Rls forests and the Tour-nelle Tour-nelle wood and now stand with their back6 against the virtually clear plateau pla-teau between Fere-en-Tardenois and Ville-en-Tardenois. Tho allied lines aro within a few miles of these places and Fere, originally the most important impor-tant southorn base, is of no use to the enemy, allied guns dominating the town and the diverging roads. Progress in Wooded Area. Almost all the progress Friday was made, in the wooded areas north of the Marne and between the Marne and the Ourcq. Using as small number of men as possible, the enemy depended upon artillery and machine guns to halt the French and Americans but they chased the Germans to tho north-ern north-ern edges. Showers fell over much of the battle area Friday. It is believed the German crown prince continues to withdraw his men and supplies from the salient. Further Furth-er fires have been seen and explosions heard within the enemy lines. From a military standpoint the Germans would improve their position if they retired of the Vesle. Germans Lose Much Ground. All the ground gained along the Marne in the onslaught of July 15 has been lost to tho Germans except a stretch of eight miles. East of the Marne in Champagne General. Gouraud has been busy and has re-occupied his former first line east of tho Suippes.. Tho advance measures more than 500. yards on a front of over ten miles and includes the re-capturc of the Main do Massigncs. 30,000 Prisoners Taken. Tho latest estimate of German prisoners pri-soners taken since July 18, is 30,000. British airmen in tho past week havo accounted for 01 enemy machines while losing 51. Long distance raiding raid-ing was tho greatest during the war. Twenty-five incursions into Germany were made and 151 tons and bombs dropped. Zcebrugge and Qstend also were bombed. Further complications have arisen iu tho Siberian situation. A provisional provi-sional government at Omsk, in central Siberia, claims supreme authority and has declared the independence of Siberia. Another roport roceived in London says that the Siberian government govern-ment at Vladivostok presumably that headed by General Horvath, has re signed. |