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Show VALENCIENNES IS THREATENED AND DOUAI NEAR TAKEN PAJilS, Oct. 15. (Haras.) Summing Sum-ming up the situation on the, British front the Echo dc Paris says that Douai virtually has been taken, that Valcn- ciennes is threatened and Dcnan only a few kilometers distant. To give an idea of the German losses in Champagne, the Petit Parisien quotes thc evidence of an enemy prisoner, who said that the 406th infantry regiment, while engaged in battle on October 1, was decimated. The companies in two battalions, according to the prisoner, were reduced to thirty men, and two other supporting battalions suffered heavily from artillery and airplanes. Despite these losses, I he prisoner said, the regiment regi-ment was ordered to counter-attack. |