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Show GENERAL DEBENEY ISSUES ADDRESS TO HIS SOLDIERS PARIS, Aug. 23. General Debeney, in command of the French forces in the Picardy battle, has issued the following address to his troops; Soldiers of the First French army: By the side of our British allies you have broken the enemy's attack, liberated lib-erated Amiens, captured Montdidier, occupied fortified positions overlooking overlook-ing Roye and cleared the sacred soil of France to a depth of twenty-five kilometers. Sixteen German divisions In the battle have lost to us 10,000 prisoners, 220 cannon and enormous quantities of material. On leaving the banks of the Ancre for our advance, let us salute with pious emotion our brave comrades who have fallen during the last five months on the Hangard-Grivesnes line. They stopped the Invader; they prepared for the revengeful offensive, and have, by their blood, given the command to which we must remain faithful. We must conquer. |