The Sentinel=record., 1918-10-19
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 The Belgian coast is again Belgian. Gcrmanys dream of an invasion otI England cross the North Sea from Calais Is ended
 Belgian Flanders is fast being erac- uated by the enemy ard his line from the Belgian frontier to the Mouse rlv- CT gradually is giving way under ,he| attacks of the British, French ant American armies which are demanded to be served Nth victory
 A haven of safety in shorter and more compact line is being sought 1yI the Germans in order to escape anhi- hilation by their foes Everywhere they are being whipped But seeming ly they are still far from defeat.
 In Belgium the enemy is giving ground hastily in order to bring his armies safely out of the trap which meAaces them but from the French frontier 10 the Mouse river he still is ti2hting desperately to hold back the lower jaw Of the great Foch pincer from closing in a great convergIng movement and cDtrappng in its maw the German fighting force Tn its cn- tirety. And sthus far he has success- fully through the use of picked troops, and machine gunners who know de- feat only in death, warded off the eliminating blow
 Zeebrugge, Germany's second great submarine base on the North sea, has gone the way of Osteud The flag Of Belgium once more flies over It. To the south Bruges has been evacuated and Turcoing, Roubaix and other towns have been delivered
 Out of the great sack between ,he North sea and the Lys river tine en- emy is fleeing fast in an endeavor to prevent capture CT interment ii Bol land His hope is that he will be able to reach Antwerp and there re- constitute his line from the DctCh frontier through Antwerp and Namur 10 some point in the south. probably Sedan or Metz, and stabilize it. tor the moment at least to the Swiss frontier
 In France, east Of Lille to Cdmbrai the British slowly but surely are pressing forward despite the supreme efforts of the enemy to hold them, plotting out the big salient which has Tournai as it's northern and Nalen- ciennes as its southern enemy held bases.
 To assure the collapse of this sa- lcnt Field Marshal Haig, with whose forces are Drigaded men from the United States, is driving hard along the Bohain-L -Le-Cateau front in ma neuver which is meeting with success and throwing Valencicnnes into J dangerous pocket
 To the south in the sack between the Disc and the Serre rivers north of Iaon the Germans slowly are with drawing toward Hirson. with the en- emy impeding their progress with strong rear guards Likewise in Champagne the Germans are offering strong resistance against the French and Americans in their attempts to drive northward toward Mezieres and Sedan The French nevertheless have been able to cross the Aisne riv- CT near Nouziers and thus have made more secure the positions of tho Franco American forces Tn the valley of the Aire at Grand Pre-.
 To the east the Americans on both sides of the Mouse river are slowly soins forward BetN cen tho great wooded bastion and the Mouse picked troops have chosen to fend the blow northward toward Sedan. All the ground that is being won is bein9 valiantly defended to the last
 In the Macedonian theatre the Greeks are new in full possession ot Greek Macedonia Albania is ias; being cleared of the enemy and in Serbia the Teutonc allied forces have -been driven 30 miles north Of Nish In Syria the victorious fr0ces of Gen eral Allenby now are meeting with scant resistance.