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Peace Falls On Deaf Ears
 Among Soldiers-French
 Corral 5000 Prisoners Eyes Are On Ghent
(By The Associated Press)

Peace talk pervades the air, but it is falling on deaf ears, as far as the ar mics in the field are concerned. In- stead of a relaxation in the intensity of the fighting. new hostilities, on what seemingly is a major scale, are being carried out by the British, French and Belgians in Belgian Flanders
 Having cleared out the old Laon sa- lient and made advances northWard in Champagne, which are menacing the retirement of the Germans eastward toward the Valenciennes-M Mezieres- Metz line, General Foch has ordered a drive in the Lys region of Flanders toward Ghent, which threatens to break entirely the grip of the Germans in Belgium all the way from the frontier to the coast and likewise, to eliminate the big bulge in the line with Lille as its apex.
 RouIers Is Captured
 While the latest official communica- tion from Field Marshal Haig an- nounces that only local actions have taken place in the new theater and that prisoners have been taken in the fighting, dispatches from headquarters assert that Roulers has been captured and that Courtrai, the junction point on the railway leading to Ghent, has been outflanked. The French troops alone are said to have taken 5000 pris- oners, while the Belgians have cap- tured several complete batteries and guns and numerous prisoners. Just how wide the new front of attack is has not become apparent. It is stated that the new advance has brought the allied troops within range of the en- emy coast defenses but that the guns from them have offered no opposition.
 Meantime, in the south, the Germans are offering stiff opposition to the British southwest of Valenciennes and on the Solesmes sector, in an endeavor to prevent the closing in of the Lille sack and the capture of this important | town, and also Valenciennes, which are in precarious positions, as a pincer movement gets well under way.
 Hun Retreat Continues
 | At last reports the Germans still l were falling back from the region of Laon, that town and the entire St. | Gobain massif being in the hands of | the French. In Champagne the French | have been enabled to make further crossings of the Aisne and materially | to better their front eastward, not | withstanding the stoic defense of the enemy, who realizes it is of the great est importance to hold back the French and Americans driving northward, as breach in the southern line and a swift advance would imperil the entire German force inside the sack from the Disc river west of F1avigny to Sis some, east of Laon.
 Yanks Face Strong Forces
 Probably the greatest resistance of all is faced by the Americans on both sides of the Mouse river. Vicious counter attacks are being delivered against the men from the United States, the fierceness of the assaults indicating that fresh forces have beer brought into the fray, to halt their do- or-die efforts to proceed up the river valleys and thereby compel the Ger l mans, in case of a retreat, to wend | their way obliquely northeastward, in stead of eastward, toward the German border. Concentrations of artillery art being used against the American DO. sitions at various places. Gas shell. are not being spared by the enemy ir his efforts to hold the Americans ir check.
 All the counter attacks of the Ger. mans. thus far. have been withstoof by General Liggetts men, and tn, American artillery is answering ths German guns, shot for shot.