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Show GLOOMY VIEW OF BRITON. Correspondent Declares Germans art Sweeping All Before Them. London. A pessimistic view of the situation of the allies is taken by the Amiens correspondent of the Weekly Dispatch. He says: This is a pitiful story which I have to write. The time for secrecy is past. 'What you know in England may be something like the truth, but I write with the Germans advancing incessantly while all the rest ol France believes that they are still held near the frontier. The best hope of holding them lies in the hourly expected arrival of an army from Alsace under General Pau, who so brilliantly retrieved the blunder blun-der at Mulhausen. So far the Germans Ger-mans have carried all before them, partly by sheer weight of numbers and partly by a deadly hail of bullets from their numberless maxim guns. Just now an American Red Cross volunteer inquired from the official in command here how he could motoi to Paris. "Take any road," was the reply. "You are covered by between 200,000 and 300,000 men." |