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Show HUNS MUST MAKE READJUSTMENT OF THEIR LINE LONDON, July 19. According- to advices ad-vices received here today, the French are attain advancing and it is prohable that i the Germany will have to make a re-adjustment re-adjustment in their line unless they can immediately throw hack the French. The success of the Franco-American counter-offensive has altered the situation on the t'hampagne front. The German line from Chateau Thierry to Rheims is dependent on railroads which the French dominate. Supplies for the German forces round Chateau Thierry must now be carried car-ried from twenty to thirty miles by road. The Germans will not only have tn discontinue dis-continue all plans for the offensive here, hut probably will be forced to fall back to a new line where the problem of supplies sup-plies can be handled easier. The German offensive thus has been turned into a repulse and mav now be turned definitely into a German defeat. The initiative is in the hands of the French. The Germans -will have to fipht hard to stave off a rout, and to extricate themselves. them-selves. This means that the entente allies al-lies definitely have settled with the crown prince and have completely neutralized bis Kroup of armies. In the past week the Germans Have used more than thirty divisions, of which number twenty-three were from the German Ger-man reserve. The i:sinir up of these ; cut y-l hree general reserve divisions is toe of the most satisfactory features of (lie week's work, for they have been exhausted ex-hausted in a wholly abortive enterprise and have lost very heavily. Crown Trinee Kupprechfs croup of armies in the north, on the front from Montcl dier to the Kmdish channel, however, how-ever, remains almost mraet. The most likely s'.rat.cic effort hy the Germans at tile pre.-o-nt time is ro speed up a big onensne hy these troops against the liritish front. The bavarian crown prince wiil presumably lend only enough troops to the German crown prince to avert disaster dis-aster in the south, reserving his own fresh forces mainly for a big count er- stroke elsewhere. |