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Show American and Allied Drive Against the Enemy En-emy in Aisne-Marne Sector Continues With No Sign of Abatement. GENERAL MARCH TALKS TO WRITERS Tells of U. S. Troops j Being Landed in Italy apd the Formation of -New Army Corps; Commanders Named. VaSHINGTON, ' 3uy 27. Harassed on the flanks by allied infantry and with advanced positions directly north of the Marue swept by allied artillery, the German army in the Soissons-Rheims Soissons-Rheims salient has retreated to a new line of resistance, where another attempt at-tempt "will be made to meet the attack of the French, American, British and' Italian troops. Thus was the German withdrawal, reported in advices from Paris, viewed by military "officials here tonight. CRITICS BELIEVE HUNS WILL FIGHT. The retirement of the onemy did not alter the belief in official circles that t ho enemy still contemplates fighting it out in the region north of the Marne. Severe rear guard actions, it was assumed, as-sumed, had been carried on by the enemy ene-my to cover the concentration along this line and tlio hasty throwing up of field entrenchments. It was not believed be-lieved the line could be definitely located lo-cated until it had been reached by the Franco-American advance guard in following fol-lowing up the retiring enemy rear guard. Secretary Baker said thore was no indication in-dication that the vigor of the allied attack, at-tack, around the salient had lessened, and there was every sign the enemy whs being pressed and harassed. -INNER POCKET OF THE SALIENT. General March, in his talk with newspaper news-paper correspondents, drew attention to the inner pocket of the salient, where the recent British advance southwest oi Eheims threatened a new pincer movement. Enemy troops south of this advance, between the British and the Marne, are in jeopardy, and the French, today's official reports show, have already al-ready made progress in hammering at 'he southern flank of this inner pocket by their advance just below Chatillc. Ko additional American forces have been thrown into the AisDC-lCaroe bat-He. bat-He. as yet, ho said, although he announced an-nounced the formation of two additional addi-tional American army corps. He explained ex-plained tbut in the consignment are divisions di-visions which compose tho five corps 0w organised to their respective 'Rher units, did not mean the corps had been actually drawn together. JI"y of the divisions are still with French or British forces for final training. train-ing. Members of the senate military eom-.. eom-.. learned from General March that , -oc July movement of troops to France Probably would reach a total of .;!00,000, making a new record. Incidentally 'Jjemox-c-neni last week was put at 50,- (Oontiuued ou Page Two.) Glenn). SSth national army (Brigadier-General (Brigadier-General Frank Z. Winn), 37th national Kimrd (Major-General William S. Farns-worth), Farns-worth), 2!lth national suard (Major-Gen-eral Charles G. Morton). 90th national army (Major-General Henry B. Allen), 92nd (nero) national army (Major-Gen-eral C. C. Ballou) have been assigned to the. Fourth corps. General March announced the temporary commanders of the five corps as follows- First corps Major-General Hunter Liggett. Lig-gett. Second corps Major-General Robert L Billiard. Third corps Major-General William M Wright. Fourth corps Major-General George W Reed. Fifth corps Major-General Omar Bundy. The Fifth, army corps includes the sixth regular division (Major-General George Left. Irwin), thirty-sixth national guard (Major-General William R. Smith) seventy-ninth national armv (Major-General Joseph K. Kuhn), eighty-llfth national army (Major-General C. W. Kennedy) ninety-first national army (Brigadier-General (Brigadier-General Frederick S. Foltz. temporarily in command), and seventy-sixth national army (Major - General Henry C E-Iodges, Jr.). In Vosges Sector. General Mtirch said the D2nd national guard division, composed principally of Tlichigan troops and commanded by Major-General Hean, Is now in the Vosges on a quiet sector. Major-General John Ruckman has been assigned to command the North Atlantic coast artillery district, General March announced. The chief of start said it would he the policy of the department to continue organizing or-ganizing additional divisions, as those in this country ai sent abroad. General March aifo announced the composition com-position of the first four regular armv divisions, among the first to be sent to France. They follow: First division Sixteenth, "i-hteenth twenty-sixth and twenty-eighth infantry1 fifth, sixtJl and seventh field artillery " ' Second division Fifth and sixth ' ma rine regiments: ninth and twentv-thi'rd infantry; twelfth. fifteenth and "seven teenth field artillery. -t.i en- Third division Fourth, seventh thirti nth and thirty-eighth iniantrv: tenth" eighteenth, t went-. -s: :l h field artilicrv Fourth d'.visi.m Thirty-ninth t0t'y seventh. f':f:y-eighlli and fifty-ninth ' lii fnr.try: thirteenth, i-ixteenlh and seventv seventh field artillery. el"! HIS if GIVEN 10 GIICE TO TIE REST (Continued from Page One.) 000 mm, or about one-half of what has been the rule for some weeks past. In the course of his remarks xo the corespondents. General March said the first American fighting troops had begun be-gun to arnye in Italy. They arc part of the small force of" trained men sent by General Pershing and for the present their identity and location -will not be disclosed. In summarizing what has already been accomplished in the hard driven counter-attack on the Aisne-Marue salient, sa-lient, General .March pointed cut that the German lines are today eleven miles farther away from Paris than they were when the assault was launched. American troops hav'e advanced ad-vanced from Chateau Thierry that distance dis-tance and the chief of staff said they still wcro advancing. Salient Line Shortened. The goaeral also brought out the fact that the line surrounding the salient has been shortened by ten miles through American and allied advances, being now sixty-four miles long. French advances ad-vances today on the Maruo angle will still further shorten the battle front and restrict the enemy 's field of maneuver. The principal portions of General March 's statement: "The lines around the south of Sois-i sons are still in the same position that) they were last Wednesday, when I talked to you. The distance across from the lined at boissons to those near Rheims is exactly as it was when our counter-offensive .bega n. "The general driving back of the German forces has been toward the center of the salient. The falling back has been on a linn which remains approximately ap-proximately perpendicular to the railroad rail-road iue through J-Vre-eu-Tardenois. There ha vc been Ineal attacks by the Germans. particularly at G risolles against the .French and at Fpieds against the United States forces. Kpieds was t a ken and ret a ken by our forces ami the Germans four times, by suc- cessive counter-atttcks. but it finally remained in American hands and while : it delay. d their advance there, it only j dehived Jt; we are going forward stead-: stead-: ily. ' "On the Marne. east nf Dormans, the progress of the allied forces hns been difricuit bti-ause the terrain there is very difficult. The. kills are precipitous, and the country is very heavily wooded. The enemy Js left flank southwest of Rheims has been the scene of a very dashing little advance by British reinforcements, re-inforcements, who went forward one and one-half miles on a four-mile front. This advance is a marked source of danger for the enemy as, of course, there -is a chance of his getting his troops farther south in a pocket, and we already find that the French at that poitt are beginning to advance. "The original line held by the allies before be-fore this bipr movement bean was seventy-four miles long. The" present line, on which the Germans are falling back, is sixty-four miles Ions. The front has been reducer! ten miles. "The area won by the allies in this counter-offensive more than equals that won by the enemy in Flanders, to which I referred last Saturday. Near Big Supply Depot. "Our lines have now reached within three and one-half miles of Fere-en-Tardenois, which is a big t German supply depot, right near the railroad, wliii-h afforded, af-forded, of course, a means of netting supplies in and out. That point has been continuously and heavily shelled. '"The nearest point of the German line from Paris is now forty-nine miles. The former distance was thirty-eight miles; they hnve been driven back eleven miles. "During the last few days American combatant troons have begun to arrive in Traly. The numbers and the place where they are to be used have not" yet been communicated to us. This is in addition to the force I announced before of hospital hos-pital and supply troops sent from the United States." Two New Army Corps. General M;ireh then told of the organization organ-ization of the two additional army corns, giving the divisions composing them, and also delated the units composing the iiryt four resrula r army divisions, which, are now engager! in the fighting. lie also g;i vc the location of t lie 32nd division anrl said lie had no report on the :-; 4th division, about whu-h he had been asked, ind announced the new assignment for Ma ior-General Ruckman. "Two n nest ions have r-ome in," continued con-tinued the chief of si all, "asking a number num-ber of derailed questions about the number num-ber of enlisted men. minor details about I men available fnr the draft, and that sort of thing. It will be impossible for me to sro into ?uch deta Ms except as n n announcement an-nouncement of poii-'y. If any unit as small as a regiment nis'inguishes isr-!f abroad I will be very g!ad to mention I that regiment. I'nless such flunks are I ! reffMved in the rabies and call for fjc-' fjc-' rial men'. ion. I am going to confine my remarks' to larger lines. T don't wmit to hinder you in any way: if yon have any nucs'ion. not it in, and if I ran answer it I'll do it." Divisions Named. Tn announcing the formation of two more army eorp., Gen.ral Mari-h -x-pla'itied that the divisions comprising them I anrl other orps are assigned hefore leav-j leav-j ing this country, to be mobilized as corps I wi'cn their training has been completed. I With th's nmb-rsLanding, he s.-id. the $:h'd national army ( Major-General E. F. |