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Show ADVICE DF ALLIES NECESSARILY SLOW Germans Are Strongly In trenched, Will Attempt to Cut Communications LODOf. Sept 19 1 20 a n The Par s correspondent of the Keuter Tele gran company says the consensus of ro n on n the French cap tal s that the battle of the Aisne is the most important s nee the beginning of the war Hid spatch cont nues The informat on commrin cated by the general staff is cons d,ered satisfac tory as showing that the all es frontal attack is develop ng under fa orable cona t ons ana that tho enemy s coun ter attacks are be ng repulsed It must be real zed however that the all es ga ns necessar ly are very 6low ow ng to the enormous strength of the Ger man f ortif ed pos t 6ns It seems probable f nal success W. 11 be ach eved by threaten ng the German communicat ons rather than by carry mg the r pos t ons by a frontal attack! Meanwh le t must not be imag ned that the enemy s commun cat ons are so pre,-car pre,-car ous as s generally supposed So long as the Germans 1 old Tergn er and Laon they have at the r d sposal to replen sh the r suppl es and munit ods not only two lines of ra lw ay running across the Belg an prov nee of Luxemburg and the departn ent of Meuse France b t also the Belgian ra lway system enter ng 1 ranee by waj of Mons St Quent n and Tergu er The I era an trenches to the north of Chalons Sur Marne are very strong They are more than three feet deep w th spl nter screens eery twenty yards and rest ng places covered w th house doors wh ch are themselves cov e ed with earth The trenches cons st of seve al parallel rows flanked by other trenches runn ng at r ght angles and conta n ng concealed mach ne guns It is easy to nderstanl that confronted by such obstacles the all es advance s nece&sar ly slow It s understood that tho Br t sh Fren h and German governments have agreed to arrange for the exchatage of pr soners through the agency of the I n ted States governn ent |