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GERMANS FALLING BACK ON BELGIAN FRONTIER ALLIES CLOSE TO ST. QUENTIN AND CAMBRAI. Renter’s Telegrams. (Received March 20. 12.40 a.m.) - i LONDON, March 19. Brent* on the Western front are moving with bewildering rapidity, and well-known lines on the maps are changing hourly. r , > There is no longer any doubt of the serious broach made mEermany s Wall of steel. The breach extends irom Monaony, south-west of Ai ras, to Nayon Plateau, a distance of aboiit a hundred miles as the trenches go. - All tho Ck'rmrtn armies in tins sector are falling back towards the lieJgian frontier, with tho Anglo-French cavalry pursuing them. Naturally there is no question of a general German collapse, but thc ictroat is certain to have a demoralising influence on the harassed Ceimans especially ns the main direction of tho Anglo-French offensivei threatensi tho most vital part of tho German lino. Likewise it strikes at their comimunTho Allies are now within eight miles of St. Quentin, and within five miles of Cambrai.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9613, 20 March 1917, Page 5
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