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Show HUN RETIREMENT : WELL PLANNED' Movement of Enemy Settles Down to Sort of Panoramic j Procession. ALLIES EXACTING TOLL Italians Increase Patrol Activity Ac-tivity on Northern Front and Take Prisoners. j BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, Oct. 19. (Router's) The ! German retirement In Belgium and northern France really is going according ac-cording to plan and the general movement move-ment of the enemy has settled down to a sort of panoramic procession. Wherever fighting takes place north of the Scarpe river it is the result of Allied pressure on the retreating one- j my who is getting out as fast as he' can wnlle the Allies continue to exact ex-act their toll from tho Germans in their hurried flight It was like a good omen to hear last night that the German cavalry was trying to hold a line pivoting on Fort de Mons to cover the eastwardly' march of the German infantrv. I 1 ROME, Friday, Oct. IS Increased I patrol activity on the Italian northern! front is reported in an Italian official 1 statement from the Italian war office today. Tho statement reads: "The Alpini attacked two advanced posts In the Val Daone and drove out the garrisons, capturing twenty-four prisoners. A French patrol penetrated penetrat-ed the enemy lines at Sisemol and took thirty-two prisoners after hand-to-hand fighting. We attacked an important detachment in the Astlco valley and put to flight numerous patrols pa-trols In the Frenzell valley." nn |