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Show Germans Settle Down Behind Entrenched Lines Before Metz WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN LORRAINE, Sept. 19. (By the Associated Press.) Entrenched in the second lines of the Hindcnburg system sys-tem the Germans along the front southwest of Met- appear to have accepted ac-cepted the new situation. The tactics they are employing are wholly defensive defen-sive ones. The Germans arc carrying out a half-hearted and seemingly perfunctory perfunc-tory bombardment of the American lines. Even challenges by American and French patrols are refused by the enemy except where a conflict is inevitable. in-evitable. nn |