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which extends und Paris. Between the Aisne and the line Ls Fere-Laon, rising up from Soissons and Conde, are a series,

ruggel, and thickly wooded ridges culminating in the Courcy and Fit Gobain forests, which constitute a most formid able obstacle to force advancing either from the north or south. Blucher hold this position in 1814 when Napoleon un and Manteuffel defended it in 1871 newsfully attacked him from Soissons,

KISHIDAKE. YOƐHINOTAMT guinst Faidherbe when he attemptel HOJONAMAZUTA SAYO KANADA, to relieve Paris The French are now taking the whole of this position by

SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA. BIBAI enveloping movement directed on the & OYURARI COLLIERIER. witch from the Aisne, on the wext across the Ailette river, and on the

north from the Disabere they have already driven deep salient into the German front north of La Fere. If our Allies.. sucosed, as they surely will do, in castaring the the German front at a crucial point, and position, they will break the centre of compel Hindenburg to withdraw to his best line of defence, Little-Valenciennes- Mauberge-Hirson-Meziere.

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HINDENBURG. MUST NIGHT OF GO.

We hear just now, writes Colonel A. M. Murray, C.B., in a Homet paper, great deal about the " Hindenburg line." it which the Germans have drawn in the centre of their front, but the name is a more catel-word, and the line night be culleri with equal meaning by the name" of any other commander, who has invale France from the north, or Belgiam from the south. There is no better known strategic line in Europe thin that which stretches nearly dee north and south from Flouai, on the Beurp to Bonde on the Aisne. Mintas y lines of defence are not created by, the will of a comander, hot are the out It will be seen that Hindenburg now cons of topographical conditions which occupies a more strategically scientific blicated the commander's strategy in line than the one which he left behind

the theatre of war in which he is operat-north and south of the Somme

him when he vacated his positions There ing. Strategy and geography go hand positions were occupied not

by design in hand together. There are four math but by the accident of the fighting which northern lines of communication along the Germans and the Allies were trying took place in September, 1914, when which the fierians, like other invaders to outflank each other in the rue to the: before them, advanced into France, and been chliged to retire by Haig's pressure, North Sen. Even if Hindenburg had not along which they will retreat into he did well to retire when he could before Belgium. As such lines always do, they being compelled to fight against his will. follow the valleys of the main water Tactically he is the loser, for he has given ways which gover

their general direc. Pe remarkable strong natural tion.

positions for less defensible but from a defensive point of view be has gined strategically since he has shorten There is first of all the line of thed his line by 30 miles, and got rid of Scheit, which, bifurenting as the Beltwo big salients which were useless to him gian frontier south of Toumat, throws to resume the offensive. What the Allied unless he wished, which he did not,

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of the Scarpe tributary to Docal, and commanders intend to do remains to be SINGAPORE: Messrs Borneo Co. thenee to Arma, while the main streams but it looks as though they mean flows on its course to Cambra, south of likes it or not, and compel him to fight to force a decision whether Hindenburg which it is linked up with the Bammor retire,

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by the St. Quentin Canal, which in ita turn links up with the Oise at La Fere by the Crozat Canal. Douai, stride of the Scarpe, blocks the way to Tournai, and thence down the Scheldt to Ghent, while Cambrai stands troops at Bapaume and Valenciennes, where Vauban constructed one of the first of his bastion-brace fortifications to serve either as an offensive or defensive point d'appui. Yanan's once formid ble fortress is now obsolete, and has been replaced with German trenches.

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Conceiro da Costa, Governor-General of Bombay, May 25,-Senhor Censor Portuguese India, has resigned. His Excellency long ago completed his term known that he has been anxious to retire of office, which was extended. It is well from India in view of his ill health and it was only in deference to the wishes of his political chief and personal friend, the ex Premier Senhor Almeida, that he

it. On the fall of 8r. Almeda's cabinet, consented to continue in office till the end of the war. if his health permitted 3r Conceiro da Costa tenderest. hin resignation to the new ministry but the new cabinet was an unwilling 25 for phd

to lose his services.

overwhelming armies of Kluck and Bulow. The trunk milway from Berlin week his request to be relieved of his His Excellency renewed by wire last to Paris, after following the course of the other so as to enable him to leste India

fensé to Namur, goes up to Sambrù to

As early as possible. A telegram now been received from the Minister of Masberge, La Cateau and St. Quentin, the Colonies accepting his resignation and then enters the valley of the Oise at and exposing at the same time the the greater railway junction of Tergnier highest appreciation of his services. between two and three miles west of Lay valuable services to Portuguese Indin. Senhor Conceiro da Costa bas rendered Fere. The Sambre-Cise line is the most whose people expected a great deal of north, as it is the central line of German direct line of ivance on Paris from the Kood from him during the extended

term of his administration.

the strategic value of St. Quentin and retreat into Belgium, We now perceive

Fere, the former acting as the gate into the open country between Intter closes the approaches the hainber and the Scheldt, while from the Uise into the Bambre valley

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suntry over the fourth main line of German retreat along the railway which, triversing the troas de Chimaz, deboucher in the Mousa valley at Ramur. This was the route along which the 6th Freach Army retreated from Curierul in August 1014, with Hansen's 3rd German Anay follow- ing hard on its biels. In Tere and Lon both stand at the feet of the northem spurs of what is known as the Fal du Champagne, which is the name to a semi-cizole low bring kills CTS the plains of

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