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Show ALLIES IKE IIS ON ALLFRQNTS ENGLISH TAKE GERMAN LINE ALONG FRONT OF EIGHT MILES AFTER LONG FIGHT. French Troops Are Battering 'Ther Way Into Perrone, While Russian Are Advancing Upon German Stronghold at KoveJ. London. The capture ot the who) of the German first system of defense on a front of 14,000 yard3 (nearlj eight miles), after ten days and nights of continuous fighting, is announced i the official report from British headquarters head-quarters in France. The number of prisoners taken exceeds 7,500. The British front is less than nin miles from La Ponne and with th French array to the south looking down on Peronne from the high plateau pla-teau on the south bank of the Somme. Both important strategic pointa aj-, gravely menaced. The French troops of General Fock spent Tuesday in corfijlidating their gains and in bringing up the heavy guns by which they propose to Luer their way into Perrone. The French batteries, directed by swarms of aeroplanes, which kifa practically driven the Germans from the air, are bathing the shattered city with steel and pounding the Germam defenses into duts. The Germans are counter attackiaj furiously al many point3 on this front as well as against the lines held by the British. They are trying desperately desper-ately to retain their hold on the M. rnetz woods, the larger part of vhkk was wrested from them by the troops of General Ha:g, and are striking desperately des-perately at the British along the L Poma:ne-T;ronne h'lgh road. The Russian armies are rapidly advancing ad-vancing on the German stronghold at Kovel, it was announced Tuesday ia petrcgrad. Fierce fighting continues o Urn west side of the Stokhod river, oa both sides of the Rovno-Korel nil-road, nil-road, and the czar's troops are preav Ing the Teutons back toward Yaidia Volynnski, west of Lulzk. According to Russian reports, & retiring Germans are setting fascat fires to cover their retreaL The Dast serious of these are raging bexaeea the Styr and Coryn rivers and scaci of the Sarcy-Kovel railroad. |