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Show A Hies A re at Dutch Frontier and Have I 1 Cut off Six Thousand Germans I HONS DEFEATED AMSTERDAM, Oct 1 9. British troops have entered the Belgian town of Eecloo, according to a dispatch from Sluis to the Telegraaf. Six thousand Cermans have been shut in against the Dutch frontier. 1 LONDON, Oct. 1 9, 2:30 p. m. Allied forces have cap tured the whole of the Belgian coast, according to information received by the Evening News. The Allied line now extends from a position on the Dutch coast to the east of Bruges and to the south of Courtrai. WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, Oct. 19, 1 p. m. The Germans early this morning morn-ing launched a counter-attack upon the American positions Iin La Grande Montagne. The attack was repulsed. The German infaptry attack, was preceded by a heavy j artillery fire. 'i The Germans this morning continued their harassing fire 1 east of the river Meuse. ir S ' " LONDON, Oct. 19, 1 :05 p. m. Many German columns : :; with numerous guns .and aujjqmjobjlestr areT repassing SKiis, a town on the Holland frontier ten miles north- east of Bruges. German sentinels have abandoned their posts I on the canal at Sluis. 5 . I WITH THE ALLIED FORCES IN FLANDERS, Friday, j Oct. 18, 1 0 p. m., by The Associated Press. French cavalry i j were reported tonight to have reached the outskirts of Ghent. j There is no official confirmation. j 1 The infantr' is pushing fast after the mounted forces. 1 3 The reports indicate a continuation of the rapid Allied j j advance in the Belgian coast sector. i ) The British are meeting with little opposition in the Lille salient and to the northward. In most places difficulty is j found in keeping contact with the enemy's main forces, ow-S ow-S ing to the rapidity of the retreat. I j WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN FRANCE AND 1 j 'BELGIUM, Friday, Oct. 18, 1 0 p. m., by The Associated 1 j Press. British and American troops southeast of LeCateau J captured 1,200 prisoners and 120 guns today and have ad-y ad-y vanced about four miles since the attack began yesterday 1 morning. The British are mow more than three miles southeast of i.j Lille. I I On the Belgian coast British warships are shelling the I ' retreating Germans. j WITH THE BRITISH FORCES IN FRANCE, Oct. 1 9, j by The Associated Press. During the last three days of the (:j occupation of Lille the Germaps took away into captivity . V 15,000 of the inhabitants of the city. 3 I I j AMSTERDAM, Oct. 1 9, by The Associated Press. The , : evacuation of Brussels by the Germans has already begun, according to M. Heinrich, an Activitist Belgian deputy. : ; The deputy is quoted thus by the correspondent of the i '; Nieuwe jVan Dags at Rosendaal, on the Dutch frontier, who j j ' says the deputy himself has arrived at Brussels. The evacua- j tion reports refer to the German troops and not to the civilian ( population of the city. -1 , 1 '- ?i LONDON, Oct. 19, 1 p. m., by The Associated Press. , J he Germans were still holding the outskirts of Zeebrugge 3 j this morning although the Belgian forces in their eastward -j advance had reached the Zeebrugge-Bruges canal. j I AMSTERDAM, Oct. 1 9. The Don Cossack volunteer 3 ) army and other detachments have surrounded the Bolsheviki I rces in the northern Caucasus, says a dispatch from Kiev, j r Hie retreat of the Bolsheviki to Astrakhan, and Tzaitzyn has ; been cut off. x , 1 ' AMSTERDAM, Oct. 1 9. British troops are approach-) approach-) Sluis, on the Dutch frontier, ten miles northeast of Bruges, I 8ay advices from Breskens. The Germans continue to retire j ward Ghent. iji (By the Associated Press) j J?e.rman forces In Belgium still are , Jeinng eastward toward a' new de-J de-J ; af 1,ne ,vhI,e thc British, French a I "a Americans southeast of Cambrai .3 ;. Cl!rv'ng a wedge into the German V ; defenses north of the Olse. ; Ghent, 31 mile6 northwest of Brus- ; sels, the Belgian capital, is reported to have been reached by French caval- ry. Reports received in Holland- are ; that the Germans have begun to re- move their troops from Brussels, evidence evi-dence that the new defense line may be east of that city. All along the front In the Belgian sector from the coast to the cast of Courtrai the Allied troops are pushing forward. German units are reported to be holding out in Zeebrugge, with Belgian trocps on the canal running south from Zeebrugge to Bruges.. It would seem these troops would be cut off and either forced to surrender or flee to Holland. East of Lille and Douai the British are moving eastward toward Tournal and Valenciennes- and already have advanced more than six miles along a front of more than thirty miles in this region. The British are approaching jChereng, less than eight miles west of Tournai. Several scores of villages here have been liberated. Southeast of Cambrai the Allies have made a wide breach in the Ger- Continued on Page WAR BULLETINS I i (Continued from Page 1) j man lines along the lower Selle and the Sambre canal and continue to fight their way eastward. The British Bri-tish and French war office report the capture of more than 4,200 prisoners in tho fighting here, and a score of i villages including Wassigny, Pazuel.l Hennappes and Tupigny, have been taken. On the north the British are within two miles of the Sambre canal at Cha-tillon. Cha-tillon. The French have taken Andig-ny Andig-ny forest and have reached the canal on a front of nearly nine miles south of the forest and beyond the bend in the Oise, north of Noyalcs, three miles I east of the railway junction of Guise, i The Germans arc withdrawing from! the southern pocket with the French in close pursuit. East of Rethel the j French have reached the Aisne on a wide front and captured Ambly-Haut. French Continue Advance PARIS. Oct. 19 The French continue contin-ue successfully their advance south of Wassigny and east of Guise, according accord-ing to the war office statement today. They have reached the Sambre canal on a front of nearly nine miles south of Hannappes. . Along the canal the French hold the towns of Hannappes, Tupigny and Noyales. Since October 17 in this region re-gion tho French First army has taken more than 3,000 prisoners and twenty guns. East of Rethel the Germans have been driven from the territory between the Ardennes canal and the Aisne west of Attigny. The town of Ambly-Haut has been captured in addition addi-tion to prisoners. British Advance Continues. LONDON. Oct. 19. The British are continuing their advance in Flanders north of the Sensee canal, Field Marshal Mar-shal Haig announced today. Southeast of Le Cateau, where British Brit-ish and American troops are operating, TJazuel and Mazinghein have been captured. cap-tured. The British have advanced more than six miles east of Douai and they are In contact with the Germans east of Vreed and Cattelett In that area. Field Marshal Haig's forces not only forced ihe Marcq river, but they advanced ad-vanced between this point and the river riv-er Scarpe. liere the British reached a line virtually level with their line south of tho river Scarne. I Feeble Counter Attacks. WITH THE AMERICAN' ARMY NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, Friday,' Oct 18. (By tho Associated Press.) Feeble counter-attacks were made by tho Germans this morning east of the Meuse river but they were easily repulsed. re-pulsed. There were lively artillery duels during the morning but little infantry in-fantry fighting. The Germans continue to rely chiefly chief-ly on machine guns to check tho Americans. Am-ericans. American patrols have been active in the center and on the left wing where they have established out-, post lines north of Cote de Chatillon. They have partially cleaned out Loges wood and penetrated further into Banthcvllle wood. Because of the wet weather the enemy has been using many gas shells recently. The American Ameri-can guns opened quite a heavy bombardment bom-bardment at 7 o'clock this morning. Many Infernal Machines Found. In captured dugouts in the territory recently taken by the Amorlcans infernal in-fernal machines have been discovered. These were operated by mercury thermometers, ther-mometers, the bombs exploding when a certain temperature is reached. During tho advance yesterday the American troops captured 20,000 gallons gal-lons of German gasoline. AMSTERDAM, Oct". 19. The-Dutch government is prepared to care for fugitives entering Holland from Belgium, Bel-gium, according to a statement made by Fremier Rlujs do Beerenbrouk. in thQ chamber yesterday. He added that the government would feed, clothe and care for these victims of the war. British Offensive Continues. LONDON, Friday, Oct. 18- In continuation con-tinuation of the offensive south of Le Cateau. Feld Marshal Haig's troops have captured tho village of Wassigny, the British commander reported tonight. to-night. The village of Ribeauxville, north of Wassigny, also has been taken and British troops have Entered Bazucl, still further north. More than 1200 prisoners pri-soners and a few guns were taken in tho day's fighting |