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Show I TWO MILLION YANKS OVERSEAS THEY'D STRETCH FROM SALT LAKE TO SAN FRANCISCO f San Francisco ! V Salt Lake City : m, m ;1" til 00000 000 000 000 000 "' . ... Th war department ha announced that there are more than 2,000,000 American soldier now oYerseaa. It U hard to realise the ixe of uch a force. If thi army was lined up at attention, a in this cut, each man allotted twenty-fota ' inches of space, it would reach from Salt Lake City to San Francisco. - YANKS OVERSEAS EXCEED 2,000,000, IS LATEST FIGURE By Associated Praea. TT J ASfUNCTCV, - Oct Q vMrP ih.m 3000.000 American YV soldiers now have gone overseas, General March told the members of the senate military committee today at their war department conference. While the conference was in progress. General March wai notified that the Germans had evacuated the entire Belgian coast up to the Holland boundary and lliat it is now in possession of the allies. GERMAN RETREAT. The German retirement from the Belgian coast district. General March added. Is increasing In breadth and speed. The movement to the rear, on the whole, he added, la extremely rapid, as Illustrated by the fact that the territory ter-ritory evacuated In four days totals more than 800 square miles. YANKS RENEW ATTACKS. To the south In France, the general said, renewed attacks by Anglo-American forces opposite loual have carried car-ried the allied line up to the hastily 1 constructed German defensive systems, which follow in -a general way the Hen see canal and marshes. No attempt at-tempt to crosa this barrier has yet been reported. NO REST FOR FOE. The Himlenburg defense system Is now entirely behind the allied advance anil Marshal Koch is continuing nia pressure without giving the enemy the slightest oppnrtunlty fr a rest. General March called attention to the fact that the German retirement, i starting laat week on a sixty-mile sec- , tor between the Oise and the Argonne, had spread during the week until It1 affected all except fifteen miles of the 250-mile front from the coast to the j Mm me. WORK OF DIVISIONS. While the retirement waa In progress, prog-ress, he aald, the American army northwest of Verdun was fighting us way forward against stiff resistance. The Twenty-ninth division (New Jersey. Jer-sey. Delaware, Virginia, Maryland and District of Columbia troops) waa Identified Iden-tified as one of those operating east of the Meuse. The KIghty-fifth (Michigan (Mich-igan and Hast Wisconsin), la now acting act-ing as a depot division on the line of communication, while the Klghty-Cpurth Klghty-Cpurth (Kentucky, Indiana and southern south-ern Wlinxuaj bL reported. as having. Just arrived in France. The Thlrty-e Thlrty-e tenth division (Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia) haa not yet arrived oVTH'"IS |