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Show GERMANS- "STI LL YIELDING GROUND FRENCH ADVANCE ON ST. QUEN-TIN QUEN-TIN AND BRITISH TAKE FOUR. TEEN VILLAGES. 'Evacuation is Explained by Germans as Strategy, Who Declare New Positions Are Stronger Than Ever. London. liol.h the? British and Kri'iirh annii'H In France have made furt ln-r notable galnR. l-'ourt i'1-n additional villages havo liei-n entered by the British forces .from Arms southward to Ham and they have passed the general line of Canizy, Knl ree-en-Cliausee, N'urlu, Vein and St. Legcr. Beyond Kntree-en-(Muiussee, the Liritish troops are within with-in twelve miles of St. Quentin. On their part of the. line, however, ,1... ..I, 1... i... tU.Tl.n CfllJlllrir tn within four and a half miles of St. Quetin, and iilso have reoceupied cou-Hiderahle cou-Hiderahle territory between the Somme and the Aisne. Paris reports that the losses of the French troops have been insignificant. Berlin says that in the retreat of the Germans they have rendered the .field soleeted for the coming engagement engage-ment with the entente forces useless 'from a military standpoint. A high 'German military authority announced ;that the maneuver of the Germans iliad ended the plans of the entente for their spring offensive and that from Hlrong now position the Germans will iKlvo battle to the British and French as they come across the devastated Unuttleileld. From none of the other fronts has there come a report chronicling particularly par-ticularly sanguinary engagements. There has been an increase in the outpost out-post skirmishes in Russia. In Macedonia Mace-donia and north of Monastir, the French war office reports the capture of Teutonic allied positions, nine machine ma-chine guns and 1.2U0 prisoners. The Berlin war office, however, says all the French attacks here have been without with-out result. Nothing new has come through concerning con-cerning the operations against the Turks by the Russians in Asia Minor and Persia and by the British in Mesopotamia. |