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Show GERMANS FORCED FROM VESLE BY ALLIES' STRATEGY AMERICAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS IX FRAXCE, Thursday. Sept. 5. i Evening Eve-ning Router's. ) There probably never was ' a neater instance of a strategical offensive than the fashion in whih ihe Germans along the Yesle were put to flight by a ; blow struck many miles to the west Of them. Had we attempted to force the line of the Vesie. tactically we shou'd have lost at least 10.000 men and possibly three times that number. By the blow struck on the Sntssons J plateau, however a blow which in any case was inevitable the Vesie had been cleared in "he operators alone; the All-' All-' ette. By those tame operations some of the finest divisions of the German army have been prevented from holding up t'ie British advance, and the Hindenbur line thus far has been broken by a taitle nearly 1'iQ miles away from it. Thou eh the German withdrawal from the Vesie is the most ghowy event in this sector, by far the most serious one was , their defeat between Terny-Sorny and the ' Ailette. It is no wonder that ihe:r trco;.-i were command p. to resist to the last man. since if they are unable to hold tre ne-k of the hiil to the south of Vaux-aillon Vaux-aillon they will have to withdraw their I entire srarnson from the Pnnt l:o pia- j teau and fail back to the last nde from which the ftar.k of the Cherr.:n-dea-Dumc3 can be defended. I . ( |