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Show KAISER'S ARMIES GIVE I IP MANY SQUARE MILES OF FRENCH TERRITORY Two Entire Departments, the Oise and the Aisne, B to Be Liberated Rapid Retreat of Enemy H Being Harried by Cavalry. H PARIS, March 19, (noon). The French, closely following fol-lowing the retiring Germans, re-occupied Guiscard last night and at several points reached the railroad from Ham to Nesle, the war office announces. Troops were pushed along the national road to St. Quentin. PEKING, March 19. Chinese troops have occupied without opposition the German concessions at Tientsin and Hankow. The Dutch have taken over the German consulates. BERLIN, March 19, by wireless to Sayville. Evacuation of territory over a wider sector of the French front extending I from Arras to the Aisne river is announced by the German ! war office. Several lines of French trenches over an extent of 300 metres in one section and 800 metres in another on the Verdun Ver-dun front were stormed yesterday by the Germans. Nearly j 500 French prisoners were taken. PARIS. May. 10 The German line 1 at last accounts was in full retreat H over a section which represents almost H one-fifth of the vast front from Swit- jH zerland to the sea, closely pressed by H the French and British. French troops, advancing with the precision of a machine along a 40 mile front, have recaptured important towns and fl many square miles of territory, accom- ! pllshed at small cost to them. nl In the Lasslgny region west of Roye Ijl the Germans appear to have made ll only a weak defense, since the French were able to push forward thirteen ! miles at one bound. General Nivelle. the French commander, who is cred- H ited with possessing almost uncanny ljH ability to gauge the powers of his op- uH ponents. is following up the retreating Germans with great rapidity. It is lH regarded here as doubt fui whether the IfH l ermans will find it feasible to offer H serious resistance before reaching the jH basic line of defense between Lille and SH Soissons. two days' march from where lH they now are. ijl PARIS, March ID. 5 a m Tomor- I row, or the day after, two entire ijl French departments, those of the Oise and Aisne, will be liberated from the jjl German invader, according to re- jH ports from tho fighting front. The total territory now regained is rough- ll ly calculated at 620 .square miles The nature of the ground over which the Germans retreated was al- il most all against them and they were jH harried by cavalry, which is now being be-ing used In force for tho first time ll since the battle of the Marne. jl At a few points where matured of- Nl fered an opportunity for resistance, H the Germans tried to make a stand and fell back only after considerable Jl fighting. The newspapers are over-Joyed over-Joyed at the liberation of such an extent ex-tent of territory. Henri Bidou. one of il the best known military writers, Hl "Our troops are advancing to vie- :H tory, which, long waiting in under- iH ground holes and trenches, spreads jH her young wings in the broad light of day. which she sees again." German Design Foreseen. The comment on the military as-pect as-pect of the situation is moderate and even cautious. Le Petit Pansien believes be-lieves that the rapid retreat of the Germans very probably conceals some design out that there can be no doubt that, notwithstanding, the great confidence con-fidence inspired by Von Hindenburg the German public will learn with stupefaction of the evacuation of a jH region whore so many Germans have fallen. " The spirit of the population and troops." says this paper, "will be af- jH fected and to wipe out this bad effect It will be necessary to attempt some operation on a vast scale. This will 'H Certainly be undertaken and at date which cannot be far oft " |