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Show 1 Germans in Retreat on! the Serre-Oise Front. . . i IimIn -DANGER! Itmdi m Position t Rush Rapidly For-. ward. , ' i ! WITH .THE. FRENCH ARMIES IN ; FRANCE, Oct. 2S. (Router's) Gen -' eral Debcney's army has won a signal t victory. The German Torce's ' holding-the holding-the Serre-Oise front are .jri retreat and the whole German line', between Chateau Pdrcien and the Argomio is in danger of being turned. ' Persistent attacks .by General De-l De-l beney's Indefatigable Infantry has broken the river line-, which is tho last ! water line commanded by the enemy between the present front .and the Meuso. Germans in New Retreat. PARIS. Oct. 28 German armies have begun a new retreat, this time : between tho Oise and the Aisne. Gon-; Gon-; ' eral Debeney's First army, in the face 1 of stubborn resistance and repeated counter-attacks, has succeeded in swinging on its right flank so that it :! faces east. It has reached Guise and j the Guise-Mario road, driving the ! enemy before it. , ' : General Debeney's army' is now in a 1 position to rush rapidly along the up-- up-- per Oise valley toward Ilirson andj s Yervine through a level country tic-1 void of streams. The first result of his j progress is to force the enemy oppos- i ing the Tenth nnd Fifth French arm- j J ies, exhausted by fruitless counter-at j tacks, to begin a backward movement I which is eventually bound to extend to . the front before Rcthel. This iVIU open ' to the Fourth army n double pas-; pas-; sage of the Aisne and Ardennes canal, 'i General Debeney's success was won ! by sheer hard fighting. The impor-' impor-' tance the enemy attached to stopping " this passage up the Oise may be gath-r gath-r ered from the fact that the Germans ' vesterday threw in three fresh divis-' divis-' Ions, which, however, were knocked f out. Enemy Is Dislodged FRENCH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Oct. 27. (Canadian Press dispatch from Reuter's) Router's correspondent cables: ca-bles: "This evening General Debeneys army, after three days and nights of incessant fighting, dislodged the enemy ene-my from the Hermann line, pursuing him to the next line a few miles north, Intersected by streams and hero and there great patches of thick woods, ad-m'irablv ad-m'irablv adapted to tho purposes of defensive de-fensive warfare. Yet In three days we have covered as ma'nyf miles In depth as in the same number' of months last year. I should hesitate to say that Valenciennes has not by now been forsaken by the enemy. "Tho Second army. In conjunction with tho French, made good progress yesterdav and reached Moen and Heestcrt", which arc southeast of Courtral and upon the railway from the Lille triangle to Ghent. The Fifth armv continues to encounter obstinate obstin-ate "resistance?1 toward Tournai. Scenes of intense activity everywhere aro to I bo witnessed in tho hack areas of our advance7 'Labor battalions drawn, from all quarters of tho globe are at nR work strenuously making and mend- ing roads, while eastward a following flood of lorries, troops, guns, wagons jl and horses seem never-ending." n |