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Show PARIS HAS FRESH TROOPS READY General in Command Can Use Half Million in Pursuit of Fleeing Germans. ENEMY IN SAD PLIGHT Appears to Be Abandoning Valley of the Oise for Champagne Country. London, Sept. 14, Sam A die patch to the Times from Pads says "The general in command in Paris has half a million fresh troops under his control which will be used, presumably pre-sumably in pursuing the encm J "News that the German force from l'onta Mousson to Saint Die arc falling back shows that the five German Ger-man armies of Generals von Kluck. von Buelow, (Town Prince Fredefik i William, the duke of Wurtemberg and that operating in Moselie are in retreat. re-treat. There are good chance? that the allies may annihilate them before Ihey reach the frontier. Abandon Natural Route. The Germans appear to be abandoning abandon-ing their natural route, the valley ot the Oise, endeavoring to withdraw further eastward, to the desolate country coun-try of the Chainpaene, where roads are poor and provisions scant Beyond i? the forest of Ardennes and to the east the wooded and clay ridges of the forest of Argonne, as formidable a harrier to progress as any army could have. "If they actually have abandoned the OKc valley, the German lines of c ommunication are reduced to one. paSBlng by Givet, N'amur and Liege Tin- other passes Mezieres. Montmody and Luxemburg, the next line to the south, and is commanded by the guns at Verdun. r, r. |