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Show Trench Lines Said to Be Entirely In- . adequate. I i ! DIVISIONS reduced; Reports of TSSnhing "ofl i Armies Said to Be i Aotkritative. i ! WASHINGTON. SepL 10. The re- ports say that the trench strength of the German army "is now entirely inadequate. in-adequate. By withdrawal to the Hindenburg line the enemy lias reduced tho length of his front between Ypres and Rheims by about sixty miles. , It is not yet clear whether the German Ger-man high command considers the Hindenburg line short enough to be held with the present German forces. The general trend of that old defensive defen-sive front forms a great curve from Verdun to the North sea bulging outward out-ward in the center to Lille, Douai, Cambrai, St. Quentin, Laon and other towns now in peril- Dut there aro many indications that the first stand, at least, is to be on the old front. Observers have reported extraordinary extraordi-nary activity behind the Douai-Cam-brai-Qucant sector. New light railways have been built and strong trench lines erected, particularly behind St. Quentin. Many dugouts have been con- structed capable of resisting the fire of any 4nit the largest caliber guns. New barbed wire has been added to the old entanglements. In tho St. Quentin area the trench lines, it is reported, run along behind the town on the front of theSt Quentin Quen-tin canal just northeast of the town. |