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Show ONLY HOPE OF REAR GUARDSJSCAPTURE GERMAN HIGH COMMAND LEAVES MEN BEHIND FOR SLAUGHTER SLAUGH-TER BY ALLIES. Never Out of Reach of Gunfire, Never Free from Fear of Tanks, Expecting Expect-ing Death at Any Moment Unlets They Are Captured. Paris. Tho enemy Is still falling bnck under the close pressure of our troops, fighting bitter rearguard notions no-tions nt machine-gun range, but forced to give ground everywhere. The stato of things beulnd tho German Ger-man lines undoubtedly Is very distressing distress-ing to them nnd full of grave weakness. weak-ness. One hesitates to emphasize tho demoralization of tho German Infantry, Infan-try, which may he only u pusslng phase duo to the present disasters, but that It exists for tliu time being among the most shuttered divisions Is certain. Those poor devils of German Infnntry who have been streaming Into our lines as prisoners during our rapid succession of blows have been having n tragic time, nnd the comrades they left behind nro without hope. They uro men who, owing to tho dire need of reserves by the German high command, com-mand, are being left In the Hue day after dny, week nfter week, until only thin remnants of them arc left without with-out promise of relief. So It Is that divisions In the lino and odd bits of di visions uro scruped together and sent forward. After the recent battles, which nl-most nl-most destroyed them, they, ns lighting units, nre bearing the brunt of our onslaught. on-slaught. They nre never out of reach of our gunfire, never free from fear of our tanks. Kxpcctltig every day will be their last on enrth uulcss they have the luck to be captured, they nit hopo to bo made prisoners and relieved from this fear und horror. |