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Show MARSHAL FOCH 1 KEEPING BUSY Peace Talk Does Not Affect Armies in the Field Good Gains Being Made. ! Although peace talk still Is in tho air, there is no peace for tho Gorman and Austro-Hungarian armies in the field. While attempts are being mado In "well-informed circles" in Germany and Austria to show that the latest peace proposals of the central powers are honest expressions of n desire for a "just peace," Marshal Foch's armies, are proceeding without pause In their task of clearing Belgium and France of the invader. And they arc continuing continu-ing to meet with groat successes. Likewise Like-wise in Serbia and Albania the Serbs and Italians are fast reclaiming enemy occupied territory while at'last roports the British. General Allenby In Pa.le-tlne Pa.le-tlne still was hard after the retreating Turks. While further good gains have been made by the British east of Arras, where the operations have in view the capture of the highly important town of Doual and other advances havoj been recorded between Cambrai and St. Quentin. chief interest for the! present centers In the fighting in Champagne and between the Argonne forest and the Mouse, ' whore tho French and Americans are driving the enemy steadily northward, despite great resistance on positions of high l strategic value. j All along the front from Rhelms to the Meuse, a distance of more than fifty miles the enemy everywhere have! met with serious reverses and is fall -I ing back at some places in disorder, j under the heavy pressure that is being , 'imposed against him. Where the1 I enemy is trying to resist the French 'and Americans arc -meeting their . counter-thrusts with splendid stamina j and gradually forcing them to give ground step by step. East of the Argonne forest, between I 'that great wooded bastion and the I Meuse the Americans have further, advanced their line notwithstanding! the fact that the enemy has thrown in J large re-inforcementp "to hinder the blotting out of the forest and the forming form-ing of a Junction by way of the Aire valley between the Americans and French troops on its western side, In the latest fighting the Americans drove the Germans out of Chatcl Chehery, northwest of Aprempnt and obtained command of tho heights west' of the) Aire. The latest German official communication com-munication reports that the Americans Ameri-cans Monday evening began a new attack at-tack in this region. Taken altogether the entire southern front of the Germans Ger-mans seems to be In a rather serious situation from LaFere to the north of Verdun. Laon. the great storehouse of the Germans northeast of Solssons is reported to be on lire, indicating the possibility of an early falling back; tho Chemin des Dames defenses are outflanked out-flanked at both ends: Rheims has beon restored and the Germans pushed back more than ten. miles north of it. while eastward General Gouraud's armies j land the American First army are brilliantly bril-liantly carrying out their part of the great converging movement that seemingly at no far distant date will force tho enemy materially to readjust read-just his line. A further indication of the troublous troub-lous times in the German array is the report that Field Marshal von Hinden-burg Hinden-burg has resigned after a stormy interview in-terview with Emperor William during which von I-IIndenburg informed tho emperor that a German retreat on a large scale was necessary. |