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Show GERMAN LINE HACKED FOR im MILES LONDON,"1 Oct. 13 The entire German Ger-man front from St. Gobain to the Ar-gonne Ar-gonne has cracked on a sixty -mile front and it now appears that the ene-my ene-my will be forced to retreat to a depth ! of some thirty miles beforo finding a suitable line of defense. At the best, his position will be menaced at its flanks on the Oise to tho Sambre ca-i ca-i nal from RJbemount to Gombreis, which lines are very near the Belgian frontier. There will be nothing here like the enemy's strong defenses on the Hindenburg line. Between the Oise and Berry-au-Bac the seventh German army has been forced to abandon the line of the Ail-otte, Ail-otte, retiring its right in the forest of St. Gobain- 4 In the Champagne General Gouraud is continuing his terrific onslaughts on his disorganized adversary. For seventeen sev-enteen consecutive days his men have been pounding the German positions and continuing to make inroads upon the defenses. To the north the British armies are ' pushing their advances almost to the point of liberating Douai, one of the great objectives on their front. Virtually Vir-tually all the German line is in movement move-ment and there seems now to be no chance for the enemy to re -organize his forces for resistance. ft 00 |