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Show French Making Progress. PARIS, Friday, Sept. 20. Th,c text of the oillclal statement issued at the war office today : "Our progress east of Esslgny has been accntuated and prisoners have been taken. Artillery activity has been maintained in the region of St. Quentin Quen-tin and north of tho Aisne. The day was calm on tho rest of the front. "Eastern theater, Septomber 10: In spite ofl the -vigorous resistance of the enemy rear guards the offensive between be-tween tho Cerna and Vardar rivers continued to progress today. Allied cavalry havo reached tho region ol Poloshko. Serbian forcc3 havo gained a- foothold on the left bauk of the Cerna in the region of Dunye. "The Serbians havo succeeded in accentuating their progress in tho di rectlon of Konopishta on the range ol hills between the Belashnitza rlvei and the Boshava. French and Greek forces have taken the vlllago of Tushic and have gained a foothold on the town of Dzena. "Because of difficult communications over tho vast amount b ground covered cover-ed by the oporatlon. It is not possible as yot to estimate the number of prisoners pris-oners taken but ij, is known that 500( prisoners and SO cannon havo beer captured. "Tho offensive of the Greeks ant British in the Lako Dolran region which has been marked by furious butties, continues to progress. Violent counter-attacks havo been mado ir vain by Bulgarian forces." At Castres, where tho French an only slightly moro than two lnllos frou St. Quentin, a German countcr-nttac! was repulsed. The statoment reads: "During tho night Kronch troops op orating In tho region iof St-Qucntlr H captured Benay and made progress north of that Ullage. A counter-attack by the enemy upon Castres was rc-pulucd. rc-pulucd. "There was activity by our own and the enemy's artillery in the region of tho plateau north of tho Alsnc. "In Lorraine two attempts by the Gorraans upon our posts at Arracourt and ArcanvIUers (northeast of Lunc-ville) Lunc-ville) Avcrc without result" British Gain In Flanders. LONDON, Sept. 21. Further steps forward have been taken by tho British Brit-ish on tho Flanders' front. Field Marshal Mar-shal Haig's statement today announces tho improvement of the British position posi-tion west of Messlnes lo the south of Ypres where a strong point was captured. cap-tured. Captive Serbs Join Army LONDON, Sept. 21 In their advance northward tho Serbians havo passed the line Krnyovo-Strigovo-Drogojel-Poloshko. Soldiers who have been forced to enlist en-list in the Bulgarian army during tho occupancy of southern Serbia are throwing away their arms and joining the army of liberation. i Krnyovo is nine miles southwest of j Domirkapu, tho nearest point on the Vardar river and tho Uskub-Salonlkl railroad from the advancing Serbian line. Should the railroad be reachod j hero the Bulgarians fighting the Bri-i tlsh and Greeks around Lako Doiranj will be. cut off from thoir base and reinforcements. British Detachment Captured LONDON, Sept. 21 A British de-1 tachmcnt of seven men was surround- j ed and was believed to havo been cap-! tured when the Germans took Aloeu-J vres. Their post was Jn the northern part of tho village and they held it for two days during the German occupa-1 tlon, inflicting losses, on the enemy, i When the village was re-taken the j entire party rejoined Its unit without loss. Tho te.vC of the statement reads: "On the occasion of tho hostile attack at-tack on Mocuvres on Tuesday a cor- poral and six men of the Highland,; light infantry, formiug the garrison! of one of our outposts north of the village, were surrounded and believed ; to have been captured. During the; I two days which 'the Germans were in occupation of Mocuvres this party maintained Its position with great j gallantry and inflicted many casUal lies Oniho-nlghfoP Tlra'fTcTAfTFrl-? day when Moeuvres was re-taken by us, the Whole party rejoined its unit' without loss. I "Yesterday fresh attacks against! our posts north of Mocuvres were repulsed. re-pulsed. "In the evening the enemy heavily bombarded our positions in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of Gauche wood and under cover of this bombardment pressed back slightly ono of our advanced posts north of the wood. Germans Meet Repulse. Throughout tho night tho Gormau infantry made repeated and determined determin-ed attempts with flame throwers and bombs to drive into our positions in this locality. All the attacks were repulsed after hard fighting. "In the night our line was advanced slightly northwest of Bellcngllsc. This morning fighting re-commenced in the sector east of Epehy. BAKU ON FIRE AMSTERDAM, Sept 21 Explosions aro occurring in Baku and the town Is afire, according to a Moscow telegram to the Russian embassy in Berlin which is printed in the Vorwaerts. British and Allied troops recently ovacuated Baku and tho town was occupied oc-cupied by tho Turks. GENEVA, Friday, Sept. 20. Tho bombardment of Mctz by American heavy nrUllcry caused surprise but no panic, says the Metzcr Zeitung. Tho paper adds that few persons wore killed and tho damage was insignificant. insignifi-cant. It is learned from Basic, however, that tho American bombardment of Mctz caused an enormous sensation In Germany. Many of tho inhabitants have left Metz but neutrals aro prohibited pro-hibited from departing. It is the first time since 1S70 that Metz has been under artlllory fire. STOCKHOLM, Sweden. Sept. 20. Olaf Aschberg until rocently managing director of the Nia Bank of Stockholm, has issued a statement denying that the bank financed the Russian Bolshevik Bolshe-vik acting as an intermediary for Germany in tho transaction, "I havo explained to the entente le- gallons in Stockholm," he said "that there is no foundation whatever for theso allegations. I offered to permit I tho legations to examine the bank's i transactions through any Swedish trustee to provo the assertion is false, i This offer Is still open." ' The sensational revelations of the Committee on Public Information at : Washington of tho relations between i tho Bolshevik government and Ger-i Ger-i many based on documentary evidence named tho Nia bank as depositor for i the funds which were to bo paid to Lonlne, Txotzky and their colleagues, i One of tho documents, addrossed to the chairman of tho people's commis-) commis-) sars contained this paragraph: i "There have been audited all the books of tho Nia bank at Stockholm 1 containing tho accounts of comrades , Lenine, Trotzky, Zinovleff and others, i which wero opened by the order ol t the German Imperial bank No. 2751. i Theso books havo been delivered to Comrado Muller, who was sent from 5 Berlin." i oo c Women in government sprvico connected con-nected with the navy arc rebelling against tho regulation forbidding iho wearing of silk stocklngitjwlih the uni-l uni-l form of ycowoman, |