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Show BRIDGES ACROSS RIVER DESTROYED London .Ian. 25. Completion ..f the i destruction of the German bridges i crossing the Meuse at St Mlhiel, j claimed by the French, and inflicting of heavy losses on the Alpine chasseurs chas-seurs in the fighting in Alsaee, claimed claim-ed by Berlin, are outstanding features of the official reports received in London Lon-don from the western front. The French guns got the range of the German bridge positions last Friday, Fri-day, and since then have been hammering ham-mering them effectively, with the results re-sults announced today. Simultaneously British troope who are now holding the destroyed village vil-lage of St Georges debouched from their position and captured part of the German defensive line to the east and established themselves on ground of great strategic value. Meanwhile the Franco-Belgian forces to the east of Lombaertzyde are steadily pushing the Germans back, and, with the support of the ad- vanced position of the British to the lOUth, are in a position to presR for- ward still more rapidly hecauso the j dancer of being outflanked In re moved. Of surpassing Interest I? the re-poited re-poited plan of the Germans to make a spectacular raid bj Zeppelins from ' Bruges on the kaiser's birthday anniversary, anni-versary, on Wednesday Orders have been issued to the allied air corps to be prepared to repel the airship raiders raid-ers on I he Flanders front, and particularly par-ticularly in Paris Each of two new typo dirigibles report e transported secretly from Friedrichshafen Ifl equipped with sixtv bomhs and each earrles a hydro-aeroplane as a scout craft, with a special platform nn whieh aviators roar allglit oo |