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Show Declares General Retreat Necessary Nec-essary to Allow General Ludendorff to Maneuver. PARIS, Aug. 19. The German press is attempting to ro-assure its public that a general retreat is necessary, on the western front to allow General Ludendorff to maneuver and to assume as-sume the initiative on a vast scale, the newspapers report, The Gorman propaganda insists that Ihe German general staff will retain j the initiative by forcing premature engagements on the American army and thus wearing it out before it is fully prepared. j ' L'Homme Libre says that the Amer- j ican forces taking part in the Picardy offensive could not be compared in size with those of the French and British. It says that America will soon have a first class army in France and that it will have airplanes which the German aviators will have reason to fear. |