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Show HUN S A RE ORDERED Every Source, Including Hospitals, Raked to Get Men in Effort to Hold Back the Allies! By William Philip Simmi" United Press Staff Corrseponovnt. PAKIS, Oct. 9. Th German! armies today ere attempting the mot lperute resiManoe of1 the war. They have been commanded to hold or Ut, to glv th III'! the 1m- ! pre salon thy hav not yrt boen beaten, j while Ilerlln proceeds with It true plot In default of sufficient field artillery artil-lery the Huns are massing all evlal-able evlal-able trench mortars, howlisers and high velocity guns at critical points, 1m their effort to stop the slow, ceaseless cease-less sl.lAl advances, while from Russia, the Ukraine and the east generally, every possible German soldier is being hurried Into the war's maw tn the west, HOSPITALS COMBED. Hospitals throuRhout Germany have been raked of nearly-fit convalescents, i He ports have been received here that a ! Ive en maas would b attempted In th event that President Wilson's reply to th armistice proposal was unfavorable, as a last resort to pr vnt a total collaps of th omplr. It is also reported that Be Ik Ian civilians ci-vilians hrs being forced to work on 1 line after line of defenses, about Os- I tend, Zeebrusge and Bruges, Indlrat- Ing that Field Murshtil Von Hlnden- J burg and Oeneral Ludendorff consider rear guard fl pen tin acroas Belgium In- evllwble. If they ho -U arrive at th i Antwerp-Nainur-Muts line. N i FOCH PINCERS BITING. j The Laon sullent Is gradually tight- j enlng. The British and Americans are driving one prong of the pincers jleep- j er beyond Bt. Quentln and Cumbral ' while the French and Americans are I doing the aam between ilhelms f nd Verdun. Hhort of guns, ammunition, airplanes and reserves, Ludendorff Is frensledly shunting what he has from this point to that, fighting an ever Increasing battle. |