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Show ALLIES MAKE FURTHER ADVANCE j - . FRENCH I GAINING I 0 11 1 0 Further Advances Made in Belgium and Prison-oners Prison-oners Taken. HUN ATTACKS FAIL I Germans Repulsed by British Near Ypres-Staden Ypres-Staden Railway. PARIS. Oct. 10 A further advance has been made by the French troops, which took the offensive yesterday in 'Belgium, in co-operation vith the British. Papegoet farm has been cap-! cap-! tured, the war office announces, and I ; more prisoners have been taken. Counter-Attacks Fail. I i LONDON. Oct. 10 Several counter-attacks were made by the Germans last night in the neighborhood of the i Ypres-Staden railway Today's ofti- J cial statement savs these attacks were I repulsed but that south of the railway, 'on a front of 2,000 ards. the British 'advanced troops were forced back a short distance. Review of War Situation. j Field Marshal Haig, with the help of the French, has struck another sue I cessful blow in the Ypres salient and J the German tenancv of the dominant ridge east of Ypres Is nearing an end. The British yesterday captured fur- 1 (her sections of the ridge in the direc-I direc-I tion of Paschendaele and British guns II , now dominate that part stfll in German hands as well as the railway centers of Staden, Roulers and Monln and the i; ! railroad between Roulers and Menin. German Attacks Fail. j j German counter-attacks came ' promptly last night after yesterday's allied advance in Flanders, but were launched in only a limi'ed area and without any success of moment. The French were not disturbed in the occupation of their new ground. The French, indeed, forged further i ahead pressing eastward from the vill-j vill-j age of Draibank and occupying Pape- , j goet farm. One more stroke perhaps two , and the Germans must bow before the superior power of the allies in Flanders Fland-ers and retreat. Should the Germans I retire to the line of Bruges Thielt Courtral Lille they wiuld relinquish J I their hold on tho greater part of the I Belgian coast now used by them for - submarine bases. 00 H |