Through Reuter's Agency.
London, Oct. 19.
Recent Press despatches from France are extremely optimistic. For example, a "Daily Chronicle" telegram dated yesterday says that the Germans have abandoned Ooutrai, and are retreating sullenly on the road from Tournai to Valeaciennes. At Cambrai and St. Quentin they are exhausted with enteric, Prisoners are sick, starved and weary.
It is suspected in Paris that the German railway communications with Maubeuge and Mezidres have broken down and that only the Mons line is working. There has been heavy rain recently and the zone between the armies is like a
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