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Show GERMANS FALLING BACK INJELGIUM CONTINUE ENGAGEMENT IN RE. GION OF YPRES, BUT ABANDON ABAN-DON LINE NEAR COAST. Allied Troops Numbering 3,500 Caught Between German Lines by Flanking Movement and Are Compelled to Surrender. The fury of the allied troops' attacks has forced the Germans to withdraw entirely from their positions on the left bank of the Yser, abandoning much war material and a number of their big guns, 'which were stuck In the mud, according to reports from Paris. The inundation of the field in which the Germans have been compelled to operate has made their positions near the coast untenable, and the failure o! the attacks made in this Flemish bog apparently has convinced the Germar general staff that continuation of th offensive in this direction would b suicidal. A heavy artillery duel raged all along the front from the Flanders region re-gion around the great arc to the forest for-est of Apremont, east of the Argonnes. The allied positions to the west of Lens and between the Rivers Somme and L'Ancre were the targets of a particularly heavy cannonading by the German guns According to a persistent report circulated cir-culated in Paris Wednesday the Germans Ger-mans were able to cut off several detachments de-tachments of the allied troops operating operat-ing in the vicinity of Arras and near Roye. These reports declared that troops numbering 3,500 were caught between the Gereman lines by a flanking flank-ing movement and that they fought until all their ammunition was expended, ex-pended, when they were compelled to surrender. |