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Show FOCH BUILDS BARRIER. Constructs Twenty-seven Lines of Trenches to Protect Paris. Washington. oeneral Foch, generalissimo general-issimo of the allied armies, is taking nothing for granted as to the ability of the Franco-American line to hold. The crumpling up of the British fifth army, which at the outset of the German offensive of-fensive guarded the gateway to the plains W I'icurdy, carried its lesson home. Wiale the people of two continents have been speculating anxiously as to the whereabouts of Foch and the interallied inter-allied army of maneuver, it was learned authoritatively Tuesday that Foch has not been idle. Twenty-seven lines of trenches, it was disclosed, have been constructed recently between (he battle front in Flanders and the city of Paris. Koch, it was stated, determined, despite de-spite the impatience of onlookers, to attempt nothing in the way of a counter-offensive until assured beyond doubt that (here existed between the enemy and Paris an impenetrable line of defenses, every attack against which would take from the Prussians u fruitful toll in blood. |