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Show i oo TOO MUCH CHAMPAGNE CAUSED GERMAN DEFEAT By C. F BERTELLI. Paris. Sept 16. 5 p. m. Judging from the heavy traffic of trains bearing bear-ing wounded and prisoners from the north and east the battle now progressing pro-gressing everywhere along the front is extremely violent Hundreds ot vounded passed around Paris during tho night to Nolsy-le-Sec and other centerB. Persons arriving on those trains say that both the opposing armies are fighting desperately. Neither has any marked advantaged as yet Senator Leon Bourgeois, accompanied accompa-nied by Dr Pechadro, has Just returned re-turned from a tour of Champagne The invadors, ho declared, burned pillaged pil-laged and devastated everything in libt German soldiers who were finding plenty of champagne In every cellar in that district got terribly drunk. In many cases hundreds of them were found in a hopeless condition by French troops and were decimated or taken prisoners. The German losses on the Marne were enormous. Senator Bourgeois states. oo |