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Show BRITISH VICTORY IS CAUSE OF POPULAR JOY IN LONDON I,l iNPON, Sept. 3. The sensational breaking of th famous I rocourt-Carnaii t swtlchllue after a scries of important allied al-lied udai:ovM with great eiptures of men and madrial lias niado an Immense impression hero. Thn e p-ctM ion s gen-eral gen-eral that the enetny will maXu the most despemte eTforts to rcvowr tlie po:ition. since th- blow is regarded as one of t he worst disasters inflicted upon the Germans during the wIkvUi vr.iT. The belief is general that the swlt:h-lino swlt:h-lino is the main system nf Gorman defense de-fense aj-id that thero is nothing oqu;dly st rong lu hind It. I ons--que ntiy Ms loss, if it becomes final, o'pena the widest possibilities. pos-sibilities. "Its Ions wnuhl Involve thfi evacuation of Uie l-'reneh coal field, perhaps even nf i he Via mi em coast." sa s the Mail, "and would imperil the ll.-nii.in hold on Oouai, aleiieionncH aJid Oinilinl, which are essential to Hindenburg for maneuvering maneu-vering his armies. The switchline is thus tho pivot of the whole German front jukI its breach means that we have fon-t-d the enemy to a struggle of man aai ust man which ho had usd all of his Ingenuity to avoid." |