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Show uu GERMAN FORCES ARE INRETREAT British Break Enemy Front for a Distance of Four Miles. DEEP GAPS ARE MADE Germans Fighting as They Retire Re-tire From Loos and Are Being Hard Pressed. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, April 14, via London. 1:55 p. m. The British last njght broke the German front for a distance of four miles. The Germans are In retreat. The gaps in tho German defenses were made in two places. Positions on a front of three miles between the Double Crassier and Givenchy and another an-other mile on the north flank of the Hindenburg trench system were captured. cap-tured. Advance posts were pushed well toward to-ward Queant and Pronville, important points in the German defenses. Tho Germans are fighting as they retire from Loos southward and are being hard pressed. Fires and explosions in the territory terri-tory to the rear of the German lines continue. The weather today was favorable fa-vorable for campaigning. Theso days are filled with thrilling incidents of individual exploints which are difficult to Bort from the mass coming In from so wide a battlefield. One of tho most remarkable is that of a young airman, who, although shot in tho eye and the log in an air duel yesterday, succeeded In bringing down the opposing ma'chino in his own lines, dragged himself from the airplane, made a verbal report on his mission and died a few minutes later. 00 |