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Show I WAR REVIEW (jl MORNING REVIEW OF WAR SITUATION. jM (By The Associated Press.) 1 IH Relentlessly the British are push- hM ing the Germans back to the Hinden- Jflj burg line. Fresh enemy troops thrown HH into the desperate battles along the WW thirty mile front have failed to stop ffnj the men of Field Marshal Haig's com- Wjt Bapaume is surrounded on three mm lines and the fall of this strategic road center apparently is close at hand. MM On the north, the British are report- jlj ed to be near the Hindenburg line at Mfl Bullecourt, the scene of sanguinary mm combats in the spring of 1917. The ilifl enemy has been driven from the high UiP ground between the Ancre and the III i Sorame and the British are moving jl ni eastward toward Peronne. ilB French Pressure Continues. 'IIP French pressure continues all along IB c soutuern "ing to Soissons. Be- M tween the Oise and the Aisne, General iiH Mangin is pressing steadily toward the l!9 western extremity of the Chemin des MM Dames. Unconfirmed reports have ami' been received in the American lines litti along the Vesle that the enemy is SH withdrawing north of that river to- IJH'i ward the Aisne. Enemy forces arc putting up a vio- ajfSM lent resistance against the British but vm to no avail. Since last Wednesday fR they have been driven eastward an IH average of more than four miles on IB the thirty-mile front The greatest I B allied gain lias been six miles toward IB Bapaume, one of the most important points in the salient. .The British mo-1B mo-1B mentum apparently increased in spite B ' e slronS efforts of the Germans IH to stay tho oncoming rush of tanks, IB cavalry and infantry. More than 17,-1 17,-1 A 00 German prisoners already have (I H been counted and the losses of the enc-H enc-H ray in prisoners are said to be In exit ex-it B cess of the British casualties. Unof-Iflrj Unof-Iflrj ficially tho number of prisoners is flffi placed at 20.000- SHI' Germans Pushed From High Ground, jnttn On most of the front the British IB have pushed the Germans from the UD high ground so necessary for defense. Wfm Also the enemy has been forced out of IIB much of the "crater company," mark' 1111 ing tnc olcl Somme battlefield of 191G. mSm This has opened up new opportuni- IjjH ties for the tanks and cavalry. jjUH Airplanes Continually Bombarding. AjB Allied airplanes continuously bom- i B bard troop concentrations and stratcg- Hfl ic positions behind the German lines, fljjfl Tnc Germans held on to Bapaume I B throughout Sunday in heavy fighting. MB General Byng's forces, however, are SlljPBi now m Avcsncs, a suburb one-half iHllHl lo e y7Cs have reached Fav- hIIB! reuil, two miles to the north and are S Villa! reported in Billoy, one mile and a Ul B nalC EOUth-soutliwest The fall of Bray, nliB which came after the capture of Al- 'IllB bert, has enabled the British to press iilllu on eastward and they are reported in I Bill Suzanne, two miles to the cast and at II & eds of e swamp country which In fl' lines the Sommo to Peronne. Bin If the enemy has counted on gaining the Hindenburg line and their finding ufiM secure positions from which to bear D B " nn al'ecl attack, his plans may be Dl fl upset by the dapidity with which the Ntu M British havo progressed toward Eulle- mllB court. Once Inside the Hindenburg Kll B tlofmses aroun'l Bulloc. urt the Brlt- ntHlS s-n avo a Sod Path toward Cambria. llfllB French Hammering With Artillery. Rltj H Ncith from Soissons the French are ulftil H Lamiuering the Gerra.iiis with their ar hBH tlllery. Except in the vital sector Bfil mm nortd of the SoU-jons the infan'ry has BUI II baen Inactive. Eist of Basneux," Gon- Bit El oral Sin lu.s captured four lu:n BmlJK dr0li Prisoners m 71 successful thrust SjjBj! ea..Yo.rd. It is not improbable, in IMIE'' vio-.v of the rep ji n of an cnoiiiy re 'aSiwI tlr.ment north oi tho Veslo, that the IkuIB Germans are o)d.'j. More '.: urder ir Hnliflf r' t.ct the flan; of the wiilnrawai flflJlK movement between Soissons and BluM' Premier Clemenceau says the for fuB' vns of the 7-ir havi been .IcCInJte !v fielded o'.r ; to the vloioili's of tl".1 last six wce'.c. Ati tro-Iiungati.i soldiers have been taken prlsauu" by the ullWs at wo different pomes on the main bal-tlp bal-tlp line but Wwi aiv no indications th:il Austrian ail fm the battered Ger-:ua? Ger-:ua? divisions s in great force. |