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Show HUNS USING UP BEST TROOPS IN . DESPERATE FIGHT WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES TN' THK FIELD, Sept. noon. (By the Associated As-sociated Press) Tlie battle for the plateau north of Soissons has used up some of the best divisions remaining in the German army. This was evidenced this morrtin? by the field being strewn with the dead of the Prussian jruards. They are piled one on top of the othtr in some trenches and Ion? lines of thera show where the guards comter-attar.ked five times In a vain effort ef-fort to stem the tide of battle, which was running relentlessly against them. Both tanks and air squadrons contributed contrib-uted to the rout 1 of the sruards. Aviators Avia-tors flying low ovpr the field met the attacking torces with a galling machine gun fire and pursued the shattered linen as they retired before the unflinching French troops. I1 Tanks drove into the enemy's lines, machine gunning and shelling tho assaulting as-saulting waves and opening big gaps in the German lines- |