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Show ' FRANCO BRITISH j FALLING BACK Paris, Aug. 26. 11:50 p. m. The official of-ficial statement issued bv the war department de-partment tonight says: "In the north the Franco-British lines have beon moved back a short distance. "In n general way our offensive between be-tween Nancy and Vosges makes bead way. Our right, however, has been obliged to fall back slightly in the region of St. i-ie " "In the north resisLince continues. The enemy appears to have suffered considerable loss, more than 1600 bodies having been found in a very small space In a trench Some had been stricken as the stood. In the attitude of firing their rifles " series of fierce) v contested com-hats com-hats has been uolng on during the last three days in the whole region, which were generally to our advantage "There has been no outstanding feature fea-ture in the Wavre district, where the ! opposing forces seemed to be recovering recov-ering after the battle of the last tew d a ys "A decree will be published tomorrow, tomor-row, authorising special promotions of officers for tbe period of the war, regardless re-gardless of seniority. "General Galleani has been appointed appoint-ed commander of the army of Paris and military governor The ex-governor, General Michel, with praiseworthy self-denial, has asked for a command under General Galleani." Belgians Battling Germans. Amsterdam, Aug 2C, via London, I 11:35 p. m. The Telegraf's Antwerp correspondent wires that fitrhtlnj? was resumed this morning in the vicinity ; of Matinee, where the Belgians have I been encaged daily with German aJ-; aJ-; vance troops ' The road from Malines toward VII-voorden, VII-voorden, six miles northeast of Brus sels," the correspondent adds, "'It littered lit-tered with bodies of men and horses while in the fields pasturing cattle have been killed by shrapnel. The Belgians captured one field gun. "Ever thing in Brussels is going on the same as before the German occupation." occu-pation." Tne correspondent says it is report ed that It Is the duke ot Brunswick who has occupied the royal palace at Iaeken The dukp of Brunswick married mar-ried Princess Victoria Luise of Hohen zollern, daughter of Emperor William of Germany. oo |