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Show ALLIED ARMIES CONTINUE GAINS Great Sweep Halted, But Short Distances Made and Germans Ger-mans Fall Back. (By The Associated Press.) Tho firsting on the Sommc-Oiso battle front still continues of a minor character compared -with that ot tho early part of the week, when the Germans Ger-mans re-enforced their line and stopped stop-ped the eastward sweep of tho allied forces. Nevertheless the British and French again have been able to gain ground on two important sectors the, British Brit-ish a short distance northwest of Roye, whero they took tho villages of Damcry and Parvillers and the French on the southern wing of the battle front, where they have captured two I farms in the process of clearing the hilly and wooded district around Las-algny Las-algny of the enemy, j North of the Somme between Albert and Arras the Germans arc continuing , to fall back and the British arc keep-j keep-j lng in close contact with them. Thus ' far the Germans have definitely given up the towns of Beaumont-Hamel, Serre, Bucquoy and Pulsicux-Au-Mont, and at several points have crossed the Ancre river, with the' British Brit-ish following closely on their trail. No ofilclal explanation has yet been advanced ad-vanced of the retrograde movement of the Germans over this front, but it is not at all unlikely that the operations opera-tions on the Somme front and the harassing tactics the British recently have employed made the enemy desirous desir-ous of establishing himself on new ground eastward, with the Ancrc river a barrier between him and his foes. At any rate, the Hebulerne salient has 'virtually been obliterated by tho retirement re-tirement of the Germans and seeming ly they now will be compelled to make a re-adjustment of their line between the Somme and Arras. In the week of fighting on tho Pic-ardy Pic-ardy front, 30,241 prisoners have fallen fal-len into the hands of tho British fourth army and tho French first army, according ac-cording to an official announcement. Of this number the British captured 21,841. Unofficial reports, probably compiled since the official data wts sent from the front given the number of the prisoners in tho allies' hands since August 8 as 34,000 and says also that 670 captured guns thus far have been counted. Russ Situation Looms Large. The situation in Russia again is looming. large. Soviet leaders having fled from Moscow, the Bolshevik capital, cap-ital, to Kronstadt, the soviet troops now are declared to have begun the evacuation of Moscow. American troops have begun to disembark at Vladivostok to aid the Czecho-Slovak army In Its campaign in Siberia, an allied force is chasing the enemy more than 100 miles south of Archangel on tho railroad; further allied troops havo made a landing southwest of Archangel and arc endeavoring to cut off the retreat of the Soviets, while British troops have arrived at Baku, in the Caucasus on tho Caspian sea, to assist the Armenians in defending this important seaport against tho Turks, to whom it was given by tho Brest -Litovsk treaty in the attempt made by the Teutonic allies to dismember Russia. Rus-sia. Thus it will bo seen that allied forces now are operating jointly on threo important sections of Russian territory on tho north with a base in tho White sea, in the east with a base in the sea of Japan and on tho south in trans -Caucasia. Probably realizing the seriousness of the situation as it now affpets the central cen-tral powers with defeats on the western west-ern front and their military positions in the other theaters none too secure with the feeling in Russia daily growing grow-ing more intense against the Bolshevik and Germanic rule, and with tho spectre spec-tre of the more than a million Americans Ameri-cans already in France and more millions mil-lions of them soon to be In readiness for overseas duty important conferences confer-ences arc in progress at German headquarters. head-quarters. The German and Austrian emperors and their suites and Field Marshal von Hindenburg and Gcnoral Ludendorff are the main conferees. |