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Show VALENCIENNES TO SURRENDER 501 British Have Already Entered City on West and Made Deep Thrust Further North. (By Tho Associated Press) NEW YOKK, Oct. 22 The fall of Valenciennes to Field Marshal Haig's forces is imminent. Despite the desperate des-perate resistance of tho Germans tho British have entered the city on the west, while to the north they have made a deep thrust into the great Raismcs forest and aro moving in the direction of Conde, near the angle of the Scheldt. Valenciennes had been in uninterrupted uninter-rupted French possession from 1677 until the onrush of the Germans early in the present war led them . many miles into France. It is now about to be added to tho rapidly growing list of towns, tho redemption of which has brought rejoicing to the French people. peo-ple. Although the progress of the allied forces in Belgian and French Flanders MHO U; UU1L uiu 111 LJIU of the stiffening of the lines of rear guards aiding the retreat of tho German Ger-man armies appreciable gains have been made, some of them of much importance. im-portance. Hollain and Bruyclles on the Scheldt' south of Tournai, aro now in the hands ! of the British and north of Tournai the village of Froyenno has been cleared of the enemy who is withdrawing with-drawing toward the Scheldt. There has been sharp fighting for the crossings cross-ings of this waterway at Pont-a-Chin; the Germans are battling hard to keep ( tho allies from outflanking Tournai on the north. Germans Massed in Strength Behind the Scheldt the Germans are massed in strength; their machine! j guns on the oast bank are active and' are receiving the support of artillery I and trench mortars. j In the northern battle area the Bel gians have reached the Lys canal along their entire front, and have captured cap-tured a. bridgehead with numbers of tho enemy west of- Meertndre. An item of sreat interest appears in the latest announcement by the French ! war office concerning operations along the Aisne. It says: "The Czecho-Slavs with us re-look the village of Tcrron." The French aro still moving actively active-ly to tho north of Laon and have now completed the occupation of Chalan-dry Chalan-dry and Grandlup. To the southwest of Ghent they aro firmly established on the east bank of the Lys river, having made crossings at several points against which the enemy resisted with determination. Around LeCateau where Americans aro fighting with the British Fourth army, activity has diminished greatly. The same is true of the American sector sec-tor northwest of Verdun, where the chief activitj' of the enemy has been the shelling of the American lines with mustard and other gas shells, and an air raid, which came near to achieving achiev-ing the destruction of an American base hospital. Meanwhile, numerous German newspapers news-papers are calling upon the emperor to eliminate himself from the .peace question and declaring that peace must not be delayed on account of the Hoh-enzollerns, Hoh-enzollerns, or for other reasons. Winter, unusually late this year, has set in on the front in northern Russia Rus-sia and a prolonged lull is looked for in that territory. |