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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Allied troops on the northern end of the front in France and Belgium yesterday were driving into the German line from west of Ghent past Tournai to Valenciennes This is the line of the Scheldt and two of the important points on it Tournai and Valenciennes are almost within the grasp of the British says the summary of the Associated Press German resistance is stiffening between Tournai and Valenciennes the southern end of the eightymile line from Valenciennes to the Dutch frontier The British armies however continue to progress Ourcq within less than a mile of Tour uai on the west has been captured and the Pritish hold La Sentinelle one mile west of Valenciennes North of Tournai the British are along the Scheldt on a front of five miles and north and south of this sector rapidly are gaining the western bank of the river Between Valenciennes and Le Cateau the British maintain their pressure and have reached the Ecuillon river at Thiant southwest of Valen ¬ ciennes French forces continue their pressure oil the front from the junction of the Oise and the Serre eastward to Vouziers On the extreme left they have advanced north of the Serre East of the Aisue at Vouziers the Germans have ceased their violent efforts to dislodge the French from import ¬ ant hill positions The French here are in a posi ¬ tion to outflank the Germans facing the Americans on the sector west of the Mease which accounts for the strong German efforts to drive the French back General Gouruuds men however have te feated all enemy attacks attacksGallows Gallows for the war culprits is the cry of the German newspapers The Frunkische Tagespost of Nuremburg the first paper in Germany to demand openly the abdication of the emperor dedans tlat the accession of the crown prince is entirely ut of the question The German people are sea vliuiK for the guilty says the Volks Zeitiing the orpan of the Nuremburg socialists The panGern i is iiml junkers are silent today but we do not l niet that they are the great war incitcrs in Geruiaiy that they remain the support of social cnl political reaction and that they are a menace to the fu ¬ ture healthy development of the GermUn empire The panGerman policy has gone bankrupt but unfortunately it has led the German people to disaster To the gallows with the gAiilty whoever they may be The socialist Arbeiier Zeituug of Vienna urges the German socialists to punish the chief culprifs without mercy adding When the Herman soldiers return home from the trendies after four years of unparalleled buffering there will be a reckoning for the people who have led them to this catastrophe The German people will sweep away the junkers and tale its own destiny into its own hands
