Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-04 | Page 33 | Hun Retreat in Full Cry for 40 Miles

L RETREAT HUN 1 IN FULL CRY 1 FOR 40 MILES t J at filters filter's Correspondent J Headquarters Tells of Retirement Mp I I 4 0 tug Aug 3 Reuter s corro- corro London l' l at Amerl American an arm army headquarter headquarters i r ter sent tie the following dispatch today toay to- to day ay extraordinary I liar spectacle I Today an m d I eye The entire German sa- sa i tho eye meets ets Hent line has hns Sl given Slen en roO way with a snap f J like that of ot a String l at has broken i. i Yesterday before tl tle tI s last delugo of Ut rain robed the count country county with a a. thick f 1 Sue mist It was as possible lo actually to ite the German r u. tre man n could coull I house with a aF agun 1 seen dodging out ut o of oC a 8 F be gun over and another loading his m m lt with ammunition ammu ammu- A third who seemed to be an the destruction iff r. r was supervising super tion of ot some sort of du dump P of ot their coming out Small Email groups billets formed In the tho roadway and marched off ore with their arms arma at the slope It Il was W all nIl orderly and leisurely though p perhaps not as leisurely a as It seemed no suggestion sug 1001 looked cd There of nf yet Tet this sort of at thing was 4 happening happening along lIonS the entire forty miles or of front between SoiSsOns and Rheims aye that In places the roar and smoke obliterating the quiet of at C was guns buns cinema effect of ot the scene before us bul bulging pillars of or Rca Heavy black smoke suddenly appeared with a thunderous thun thun- uproar hero here and there as some derous droUs rous ammunition dump exploded There had been plenty plent of or hard fight fight- Ii-g Ii on the round-headed round hill h bet between veen Cler cl and It gave er e every prospect of ot continuing when suddenly the tension snapped and tho the Germans were vore In retreat I The crushing pressure of or PC Petain's tain's troops about those of the crown had been so timed that If It the salient allent l. l had nad not broken In one ono place It would lave hsue In another Soissons had been undermined by the capture of or Buzancy by the Scottish division on Jul July 1 30 10 With the tho enemy's abandonment of or orthe the heights above the Crise river rl Soissons be became me ripe fruit that ml might hi fall nail at nn any moment and although there thereas was as fierce fighting b by tho the troops that passed p through it yesterday the mere I I possession slon of or the tic town Is not of oC great reat moment It Is 15 th ground about I It I which constitutes the pivot of ot the maneu er which mn ma may have ha vital consequences conf con- con I f sequences on the new German Germai line of or resistance The pushing forward of ot the line be between be- be tween cen Goussancourt and Tar en nois has not the significance of ot our gains elsewhere But nut with Culon Coulonges es jn n our hands bands and no sign I n so far tar of or the tho Germans standing beon beyond 1 It it ought 4 not take lon long to clear t tle e eastern an angle le of or the Ardre I regard tho the retreat as as part of or a n. amore amore more or less orderly withdrawal and antI when hen the prepared position Is reached we se will find acquisition of ot ground dir dif