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Show ALLIES INFORMED AS TO THE EXACT POSITION OF FOE ( PA HIS. Sept. !. .":-(" p. in. -Tho fnl lowing official communication was issued is-sued at H oYlnck this afternoon: "Dunn; the days of the 1 ith and loth of .Sept ember, tho rear uard of the enemy was overtaken, by our purMi-injr purMi-injr force and obliged to turn and fa- e ns. K in forced by largo a nine?, (lie Germans waged a dfenMvo battle nlorg t hoi r rnt ire front on which ceVt an ol t hei r posi t inns show M rung orga n i 7a i ion. This trout bounded b the region ot N oy on . the plain to the nor; h of i c -ur- A isno and So?p ons. I .a on. t Hp heights to the norrh and to the wpm of Hheiins and a line which run thence to tiie north of Yillc sur Tourbe to the west of the A r gun tie region an.) V ich is, continued thence bevond the Argonne bv-another line, which passes north of Varrnnes a point that has be-n ra--11 at ed by the enemy, and rencV.es t he river Meue in tho neighborhood of the forest of Korges, which is north of Verdun. " Puring the pursuit of the enemv executed ex-ecuted b- our t roops aft or tho butt le of the Marne, the lioimanj. abandoned numerous prisoners to our hand-. To thete men there has hven added a large multitude of stragglers who were hidden in t he forest s. "No exact accounting of these pris oners, or of the war material captured by us so far his been possible. It whs for this reason that the minister of war. who does not witnt to give out figures fig-ures which might bo considered fantastic, fantas-tic, refrains from announcing the details de-tails of those captures." |