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Show GERMANS SUCCEED IN CARRYING OFF MOST OF THE GUNS LONDON, July 29. The German retreat is being conducted skilfully, the ground has favored them, and the dense woods xHave enabled them to hold up many thousands of advancing troops with a few small groups of machine guns, says the Reuter correspondent with the American troops in France. The enemy losses have been very small, he adds, compared to the advantage gained, for time is of more value to the German than many soldiers. ' The Germans have lost a good deal besides be-sides ground, but have carried off almost all tbe guns, though doubtless being compelled com-pelled to destroy much ammunition. The enemy has suffered a great moral defeat and severe losses in men, but the retirement retire-ment has cost him nothing compared to the damage suffered by his vain assaults east of Rheims. When the allies come up against his prepared position, they will doubtless find him in great (Strength. The correspondent describes the change effected by active service on an American division which he saw a few months ago. He writes: "It was then aager, raw, young and expectant. Since it has been tried by the ordeal of fire and in a great battle which crushed part of the German effort, the change in the faces of these boys is very striking. They look grave and bronzed, quite like veterans. They ore jut as full of fight as ever, and at the present moment are impressing that fact on the enemy, but they have been through the valley of the shadow, and have not come out of it unchanged." |