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Show EASTERN FIGHT WIDENING OUT Allied Operations in Macedonia Mace-donia May Grow Into a Major Offensive GUNS AND MEN TAKEN Sofia Admits Allies Have Made Gains and Front Lengthened. PARIS, Tuesday, Sept, 17. Operations Opera-tions on the Macedonian front have continued very successfully. The front through Sokol, Dobropoljc and Vctre-nik Vctre-nik has been widened to twenty-live kilometers and the allied forces have penetrated to a depth of seven kilometers. kilo-meters. Prisoners to tho number of 4000. including in-cluding a staff colonel, have been captured. cap-tured. Thirty guns, numerous mine throwers and machine guns and considerable con-siderable booty have been taken. Tho Serbian forces arc vicing with the French in courage and spirit. As the allied offensive in Macedonia continues, the impression grows that an operation of major proportions may have been begun there. The front where the fighting is going on is almost al-most shut off from the world and except ex-cept for official reports there ar few detaild known as (o the progress of the Entente forces. 1 appears.- however, how-ever, that tho attack, which was launched on Sunday, is gaining important impor-tant ground east of Monasti. . Sofia admits the allies have been i successful at some points and says that the Bulgarian troops ha.e been withdrawn to positions furthei north. This may be taken as confiim.U.n nf the reports trom ailied sources telling of the ruvcrjs of the drive o--r she high ridges which U3 .neutcmV powers have held ' for the past eighteen . nths or v. etc. Last reports Indicate that tho rathei restricted front over which tho first assault was launched is now being lengthened especially to the east. Maps of the region where the battle is being fought show it is impossible that the allies have passed through tin zone where the hardest resistance might be expected. Allies Are Advancing. In northern Russia the Bolshevn: forces have been defeated by the allies, al-lies, who are advancing south of Archangel. Arch-angel. In the far south it is reported from Kiev the Bolshcviki have been successful in a number of combats against the Czecho-Slovak armies operating op-erating in the Vol era reclon and alonir the Black sea littoral in the government govern-ment of Kuban. Burning towns along the Moselle river is considered as evidence that the Germans are preparing a further retirement in the Lorraine sector. It is said that an elaborate system of defenses de-fenses has been constructed to receive the German armies which will defend Met |