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-$ - --,'-titsjtmt!ixrj-'i9,-fij'wv m Vincent de Paul, one of the oldest in Belgium. Paris. That the night and day at tacks on the French left by the heav ily reinforced Gernian right continue without any material change in the situation and "that in general there has been no change was the tenor of the official statement issued this aft ernoon. The official review, issued from the war office at Bordeaux and made public by Gen. Galliene here, says that the French are making slight progress near the Mfeuse. Several officers in the garb of the British Indian troops have been seen here in Paris and this is accepted as conclusive proof that at last the In dian regiments are in the field al though up to the present time there has been no official statement on the subject. London. Advices from the front in France indicate that the Germans are again shifting their troops. The ninth German army, which is com manded by Gen. Von Boehm and holds the extreme right of the Ger man line, has again been reinforced. It is thus made plain to the mili tary experts here that the Germans themselves realize the entire success of their present movement hinges on holding their right until the Meuse line of forts can be demolished by the bombardment now in progress. In order to prevent this, however, the French have drained goodly bod ies of troops from the region south of Belfort and have sent them into action with the armies that are oper ating from Toul and Nancy. Berlin (Via Wireless Through Say ville, L. I., to the United Press). Reports received here directly from the front say the high German mili tary officials, directly in charge of the campaign in France, predict the Ger mans will break through the allied lines within the next week. The re sistance is said to be slowly slacken ing at several points. That many of the wounded who might be saved are being sacrificed through the scarcity of doctors at the front was the statement made to me today by the surgeon in charge of a hospital train on which I came from Aix La Chapelle. He alleged that the chief reason for this has been the utter disregard of the Red Cross by the French. London. British authorities are admitted gravely concerned over the sanitary situation in the field. Though the British army is much better on than any of the forces in the field due to their activity in safe guarding the water supply, the heavy cold rains that continued for more than a week brought a veritable epi demic of rheumatism to the soldiers in the field. Compelled to Btand deep in water-filled trenches, to fight day and night in clothing from which water actually dripped, the contend ing forces naturally suffered, and since then the percentage of sick is fully as large as the percentage of wounded. Ostend. Burgomeister Max of Brussels continues his opposition to the German demands. As a result he has again been arrested by order of the German governor of Brussels. When the latter called upon the burgeomeister for the payment of the instalment on the war tax levy de manded by Germany for sparing Brussels the burgomeister tendered in payment instead of gold the Ger man bonds held by the Brussels banks. The German commander de manded that the payment be In gold. Max refused, insisting that the Ger man bonds represented coin. He was finally thrown into prison and was not released until the municipality paid over $6,000,000. At the time of the. capture of Brus sels It was announced that Germany had levied $40,000,000 tribute on Brussels and that the Germans had taken three of the most prominet Bel gian citizens as hostages until the money should be paid. Later it wa& officially denied from Berlin that anjjy , t n. in mi