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Show MANGIN'S FORCES PUSHING AHEAD IN AILETTE VALLEY WITH TTTE FRENCH ARMY'' IN FRANCE. Sept. 3. (By the Associated Press. ) Localization in the activity of the infantry in the past two days has given the appearance of the relinquishment relinquish-ment of the pressure on the flying German Ger-man lines from the Somme to Soissons. The altered face of the battle is due to changes In the conditions of the ground and tacti's, and, though the f ight i ng ha-s been confined to comparatively short sectors north of Solssons, norlh of Noyon and around Nesle. engagements of the utmost importance have been in progress In which the allies have gained advantages advan-tages that evplalD the enormous sacrifice sacri-fice the (;.ermans made to hold them at those pou, is. Itortii of Soissons, General Mangln's force, nfler throo davs nf furloim combats, com-bats, have pushed forward on tho plat nail that o erlooks the valley of 1 tin All't te behind l 'bend u d ea - I uiiiimh nnd from where tl Hadel of l.aou, ohm ff 1 he Mnul-1 pillars in tho German rtfoonriary line of dcleuae.H, may plainly be Heeri. The b'ren, h and Amerhiins nnd. around .luvlgnv the elite of tho German nriny, Prussian Ki'enadiers, slormiug hattalhniM and hardv mounted infantrymen. Thy dot', al'-.i tin-in heci.sivelv, taking an finor-111011-, dca t b roll from their ranks and K-udlii'; a ev.odlv number of eiiptives to the rear. Thn Associate.) press rorre-npnnilent rorre-npnnilent .-aw a column of theisn prhsonem I'lhni: bads over tho plateau to the went where w hit i wkI ci ossis over fresh graves marked the scene of ot Imr rtx-cnt defeats. Si itno were on ng, but nil were si in d v. and hnmilialion nnd depression showed In their faces, rather ihn n the sallsracilon e.blblled bv other prisonerM over Ihelr final retreat from I ho Inferno of war. The A NN'riea ns co-operated In I )u tit-tai.k tit-tai.k on Juvigny wllh tho type of tanks which the French have named "chars d"ii.Nsault" or shoi k cars. Therm engines of war havo been railed "armored Infantry." In-fantry." They have all the tiupplene.ss of troops a font and thoy advance read-Uv read-Uv Into Hie enemy's position;), dealing death with gruesome profusion from their quick fl n-rs and i.iiiinin. (me of these cars, manned hv a Fiench lieutenant, killed Huh Germans before Juvigny. He had Just abandoned a damaged tank to take the pi 'i'ii of a wounded man In another. HIM pilot, whoso orders were lo Kiay hy the disable. 1 car. was unable to resist the en-iIiiisi.vmii en-iIiiisi.vmii of the chaiglng troops past his abandoned post and fell In with a pln-toon pln-toon of Americans short of officers. The pilot showed them tho rcnito and fought with l hem all afternoon. It's good to soe how those Americans 1 fight." this Nv said to the correspondent, i "We. are glad to fight with them. To-I To-I gother wo will get tho Germans." |