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Show i Ordered Not to Give Up Single Pjj Foot of Ground Near PEL1 St. Quentin. , fen, y ft BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IT.' Kg FRANCE, Tuesday. Sept. 17. Vu Wgjj Montreal. (Reutcr's.) Tho Germans Rn are in their defensive positions near St Quentin and the Fourteenth re- iKs servo corps has been ordered not to 'give up ono foot more of ground. IgK A captured document signed b i Km General von Morgon, dated Septombcr 10 and addressed to the FourteenMi s mv corps says: WK? "Hitherto, owing to military reasons, i Jj- we have allowed the British to occup wK desolate enemy country. Now, how- mm ever, you have taken up strong defen' Ktfj sivo positions. Not one foot more of ' air ground Is to be given up." : After exhorting tho mon to defend ; iPDti their homos, their families and th ; SS8 fatherland, tho document adds: B5P "You aro moro than a match for the ggft enemy who only attacks with dasli i He. when accompanied by tanks. Tbesr ; H0i we will destroy. I expect every man Hj&jU from general to junior private to do Kr r his duty in the imminent decisive bat- Hfcia ties." - ) JjiSj Generan von Morgen was reportri I to have Hod hastily in an automobile in I SBf the oarly British attack north of the Ipit1? An ere. t |