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Show BRITISH OUTLOOK SERIOUS Germans Advancing and Important Positions Are Imperilled. MORE HUNS ARRIVING Fresh Divisions Are Being Be-ing Brought From ! Russia. j LONDON, April 17. There is no Inclination to minimize the seriousness serious-ness of the loss of Bailleul and the possibility that it may lead to the necessity ne-cessity of exacuating Ypres and Pass-chendaele. Pass-chendaele. Under the heading -They Still Ad 1 vance," the Daily Mail says that up to j this time in their advance the Germans Ger-mans have been on marshy ground. Yesterday they captured the first of1 the important, ridges by storming Wytschaete. being aided by the fall i i of Bailleul, and that thus "the secur-1 Ity of the Ypres salient, so long the! bulwark of our left and touched with BUCb immortal memories to us, is im-perilled." im-perilled." The Pally Graphic thinks n would be wise to withdraw the British troops from Ypres and Passchendaele "to avoid the risk of their being cut off j and compelled to surre nder ' It continues: "That the situation is made more serious by the loss of Bailleul Is obvious ob-vious and it would be dishonest to pretend pre-tend otherwise." The paper adds, however, that as huiK ;is the allied armies remain un-broken, un-broken, Germany's purpose is not attained, at-tained, while she is daily exhausting herself in order to force a decision. More Divisions Arriving. Correspondents on the front sav the Germam have used up 120 oi their 200 I divisions in the west and have been able to bring another two divisions from Russia. "Those unpleasant reverses must be i faced steadily," says the Times. "Their ' significance must neither be mini- mized nor exaggerated Far more serious se-rious than the loss of ground is the 1 revelation of the growing weight of iho German pressure. "We hear far too much of the ene-my ene-my s losses, mistakes, difficulties and j of their failure to reach appointed objectives ob-jectives on particular days and not hall snougb about the serious facl that they are still bringing fresh di-, di-, visions from Russia." 'l ho Times says the enemy will continue con-tinue drawing on their reserves in Russia "until allied statesmen stop dreaming vain dreams about Russia and do something practical to compel tho enemy to cease depleting the Rus-I Rus-I sian front." |