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GERMANYS GLORIOUS FLIGHT The Allied armies are rolling back the German curtain from occupied Belgium Cities that have been in slavery for four years are being set free at last While at the south of the line Pershing and his Americans engage the enemy in close fight ¬ ing at the northwest the French and the British aid the Belgians to recover their lost homes Lille the most important city in northern France is won back to its owners Ostond is seized from the one side by the British navy and from the other by King Alberts army armyIt It may not be a German rout but only German military art saves it from being one It is a flight determinedly in the direction of the German frontier The Prussians who a year ago say suc ¬ cess only in the capture of Paris or the channel ports now see glory in reaching home with complete hides Their vastest triumph now lies in haying fled so rapidly as to distance the Allied infafitry In March tlxs gleaming sword of Wilhelm was to force the world to its knees in October the German legions are in breathless retreat Whether the Allies of civilization overtake and capture or kill them or whether the Germans scurry with some safety out of the land they violated the result will be the same The broken Germans are running home to a broken Germany All the dreams including dinner in Paris and the woiukJ ful Mitteleuropa are vanished The German myth of military invincibility is dissolved the German boast of fighting it out to the death is heard lio more True some of the Germans are keyt behind to stay the rushing Yankees and these are being mopped up If there is no mopping along the line near the North Sea it is because the vermin move faster than the mop mopWhat What a wealth of subjects is at the disposal of the reichstag when it meets today It might apt point a committee of welcome to go to the frontier to meet the glorious retreat New York S n
