The French troops on the Western -Front have been ordered to drop back towards the outskirts of Paris, it is learned in authoritative quarters.
order to realign the front, French troops have been taken back to the Marne and the high plateaux of Tardenols, which have played a great role in French mi (ory.
Describing the operation, the spokesman said the Germans were attacking practically everywhere between the lower Seine and the Argonne, but that nowhere had the French defences been pierced.
"The Germans crossed the Seine at several points between Rouen and Verious, mainly in the neighbourhood of the latter, by making use of smoke-Screens, rats and pontoon bridges.
coppésed the crossing were now trying.
The French troops who stubbornly te throw the Germans back into the river and wipe out the bridgeheads. Fighting. the spokesman added, was going on around Senlis, 26 miles north Paris.
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