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Show GERMANS NOT !N DESPERATE STRAIT i j j Resistance Is Obliging Three j French Armies to Continue Intense Sustained Effort. WITH THE FRENCH ARMY ON THE OISE-AISNE FRONT, Oct. 27. (By the Associated Press.) Discus-j slon of armistice proposals has had no! appreciable effect upon military operations ope-rations of the French which are being prosecuted with a vigor that has not slackened since the offensive began on August 8. The enemy's resistance has not weakened, obliging the three French armies operating between the Oiso and the Aisne to continue their Intense sustnined effort for more than three months. The defense the Germans are making mak-ing does not appear like the last stand of any army in desperate straits since they are able to force the French to wage winter fighting on successive lines of strongly fortified positions. Today the German lines appeared lo be flinching at certain points, notably In front of the First army but there Is nothing to Indicate that this is not one more of the well organized and successive suc-cessive retirements of the enemy to another position prepared in advance- |