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Show FRENCH CHANGE POSITIONS WITH GREAT RAPIDITY FROM THE BATTLE FRONT, via Paris, Oct. 5, 13:36 p. m. The allied armies, after having permitted their adversaries, ad-versaries, as they thought, to exhaust themselves by continued attacks, todav took a most vigorous offensive. The British and French encountered such a strong resistance, however, that their most advanced detachments on the western west-ern wing were compelled to fall back. ' Only at this part of the long battle line did the opposing troops actually come into close contact. Many picturesque villages, around which hundreds of thousands of men occupy oc-cupy positions, have suffered severely in the recent fighting and probably will suffer suf-fer still more before the etruggle for supremacy su-premacy Is over. |