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Show ! RELENTLESS CHASE '.; , j OF THE GERMANS ' . , ,. STILL CONTINUES : ! British Warships Shelling the Retreating Huns Who Are Trying Try-ing to Escape Between Bruges and the Dutch Frontier Allies Furiously Driving Into Belgium Battle Area i Down to Point West of Valenciennes, i (By the Associated Press.) I British and American troops, fight -ling their way into the Hundlng line ' southeast of Le Cateau, are advancing I quite rapidly in spite of the desperate (resistance of the enemy. It is reported that 1200 prisoners and 120 guns were : captured bv the allies yesterday. Since the fighting began there Thursday the ! Germans have been forced back more than four miles. ! British warships have come to the ! assistance of Uic allied land forces in I Belgium and are shelling the Germans i who are trying to escape through the ; narrow neck of land between Bruges i and the Dutch frontier. I i Coast Region Cleared. Relentless pursuit of the retreating 1 Germans in Belgium and down along 1 the battle area as far south as the aroa just to the west of Valenciennes continues. con-tinues. Virtually all of the coast region re-gion has been cleared ' of Ihe enemy and allied patrols are east of Bruges. There is a probability that the Ger-' Ger-' mans by flooding tho country east of Bruges will be ublc to delay the ad-! ad-! vancing Belgians for a lime but it i would seem Uiat their line is so bent ; bv the furious onslaught of the allies ! in Flanders that it must be readjusted 1 for a long distance down into France. German engineers havo been work-1 work-1 Ing on tho lino of defense running ' through Ghent and along the Scheldt river and- it-is probable that tho Brlt-'ish, Brlt-'ish, French and Belgians will be forced to fight very hard before they can make much of an Impression on this po-jition. The Germans appear to havo extricated the bulk of their , forces from the threatening position in which they were left by tho collapse of the line north o the Lys river. I French and Americans Hold Line. French and Americans along tho ; Olse line have forced ahead slightly during the past day but they find the task of advancing a difficult one. Here I tho Germans are holding their line j stubbornly while the forces and mater- ial in the Laon salient can be moved back in safety. The advance here, ' however, seems to be gaining in mo- mentum in the direction of Hirson, ono of the principal railroad junctions behind be-hind the German lines. Along the Aisne CJcr Mill Bertholot i seems to bo held up by the enemy. No j progress on this portion of the line has been reached recently. i Further east, however, General Gouraud's men have advanced west of j tho Argonne forest and have taken -quite a long step to the north of Vou- j ziers. This advance will tend to ren- , der unstable tho German positions in j the forest and may assist the Anieri- j cans fighting east of the Argonne. i The American front has been the 1 scene of constant patrol fighting with General Pershing's men moving ahead slightly in Logos and Banthevillc ! wood. There has been no concerted at- ( : tack in this region since Thursday. |