Show r. r LOSING lI IN FRANCE FRENCHMEN REOCCUPY TOWNS TAKEN BY THE GERMAN FORCES TWO WEEKS AGO Belgians Have Also Taken the Offen Orren sive and are Reported to Have Cut Through the German Lines Lines LInes-Ger Ger Germans mans Admit Heavy Losses London The The sixth week of the war between Germany German and France Tance Great 1 Britain and Belgium has brought a avast avast vast transformation The pursued now are tho the pursuers The irresistible sweep of or seven German armies through Belgium Into France met an immovable force at the Marne river The retirement of the German armlee arm lee lea virtually all along the line in inFranco France Franco continues according to I I French official reports and advices from Switzerland describe the profound profound pro found Impression the tIle news of the German retreat has created along the Swiss German frontier and In various parts of Germany Already the German forces have been pushed back by the tho allied armies at some some points for a distance of sixty six I ty miles or or more and the French have succeeded in reoccupying various towns which they evacuated two weeks leeks ago The Belgians have taken the offensive offensive offen sive and are reported to have cut the German line of co communication m cation forcing forc forc- ing lag them to use the line through the Meuse valley alley and Luxemburg From Berlin come very brief re re- ports General von Stein has issued a 0 statement describing meagerly the operations to the east of Paris and telling of heavy losses on ore both sides The statement adds that the army commanded by Crown Prince FrederIck Frederick Freder Freder- ick William has been bombarding with heavy beavy artillery arliller the forts south of Verdun Ver Vcr dun since Wednesday By way of Rotterdam comes a Berlin Berun Ber Der- lin un dispatch that the total losses sustained sus sus- tamed by the Germans number dead and wounded A German fleet the flagship of which carries thu the flag of Prince Henry Henr- of Prussia has b been en seer seen cruising south of the Aland Islands in lit the Gulf of The Meet fleet includes seven dreadnoughts |