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Show OREAT PUSH IS ON INJRANCE Decisive Battle May Be Fought, Because Germans in Dangerous Position. LONDON, April 14, 2:20 p. m. "Tho British offensive has developed Into a great push in tho most literal sense of the word,' telegraphs Router's Rou-ter's correspondent at the British army headquarters in France. "The success of the operations -which began on Monday has been greater than perhaps we realize and tho Germans are being pushed back from Loos to the southward. "It takes an army a long time to get away, however skilfully the retirement re-tirement may have been planned and with a vigorous offensive slinging to its skirts in Its effort to avoid defeat, de-feat, it may be overwhelmed. "German garrisons sneaked out of some villages during the night but this slipping away cannot be carried very far and when they are forced back on the lino to which they may havo hastily withdrawn and without those guns and stores which they were unable to get away, a decisive thing may happen." |