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Show ROUT THE FHOM THE TRENCHES French and British Are Generally Successful Along Entire Battle Front, Where a Series of Engagements With ji Enemy Have Taken iPlace. ! counter-attacks are beaten back Return of President Poincare and Prime Minister to Paris Gives Courage to Citizens of the Gay Capital of France. PARIS, Dec 9 S3o j m. The fallowing o facial comniualction tm issued tonight ' Tiers ara no other Incidents to report thai an ad vane a by our troops be'ore Parrilliers (department (depart-ment of the Soinme) and a German attack upon Tracy le-Val (department (depart-ment of tie Olse) wild, was repulsed. re-pulsed. Special Calla by intnaaat Wrth Into Deny Tehcrapa end Istarnatieoal Vm Srrie.) PAEI3, Deo. 9 Isolated engage-1 cents in -which th6 French artillery xain tailed ite supremacy over the Qeraais and the infantry of the adee, hy a number of rucce&f al at -aeis, were able to advance their lines at several points, were reported along -he whole cattle front today and yes -erday according to the official state-aenti state-aenti lined from the -war office To Paris the action df greatest lm portanee was the establishment here of the French, capital. President Poincare and Prune Min rter Eene Yiviani arrived from Bor 4eanx today the lat to return of the official eontingnt which -withdrew on September 3 when Pan -was threat ened by General Ton KIojc a advance AH the departments are now ro-estab-ushed he e and Pans tonight looked more like the Pans of ante-beHum days than it has for three months. Hopes Are Raised. The retnra o' the president and his cabinet probably has done more to raise the hopes of the Pans ans than any of the military successes of the pact month, for it is accepted as an official expression of confidence that it Is now ly a question of days before the Ger asus will be expelled from France Today's ofUclal reports showed that the Crmanii were routed from their trenches n the Aisne district !n the Argonne and Jong th river lleuse while several of their attacks have been successfully re Pulsed. The allies are making good the Positions to which they have advanced In the north and are now preparing for new attacks and further gains Furious Attack Repulsed orth of Eoye the former battle front M General von KluS, the French today 2jf?? forward before the town of Par niti .g?vinIn considerable ground Re inS v ' . German attempt to force the wnes back in the ang e of the Aisne and t.otrSr was indicated by a furious at S? the invaders, which was stopped tk. SUP! lnto a retreat by the v gor of "J Jlnch defense. Artaiery continues to wage a terrific SIT aJoBS Ystr from Meuport to Fr.Zs and ln th region of Arras the bVSr. "d BrtUsh troops are busily en StT? Ia strengthening the advan ed po-one po-one gained on the rallroid from ! VtrnUea!0 following the taking of j laN.iFrencl1 ans were partlcu ar y no " ln the Argonne region where heavy (Cjnttnned on Pago Two.) I ROUT GERMANS FROM TRENCHES ON THE FRONT French and British Success ful in Series of Battles in France and Belgium. Return Re-turn of Capital to Paris (Continued from Page One ) Infantry engagements were fought re suiting In the occupation b the French of seve al German trenches Prog ess was recorded a one the who e of th s front w th tile except on of at one po nt where the Ge nans by sapp ng opera t ons were ab e to b ow up one of the French tienches with a mine In tie Vosges the Germans attacked with v gor northwest of 6 nones bu e se where they showed no actl lty and the French were pe m ted to cont nue the wo k of streng hen ng the pos t ons t ey occupied last week |