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Show TRENCH-MIS ORIVEjeiy BACK 1 Germans Swept to Point Fifty Miles From Paris in Day's Advance. j By Universal Service. WITH THK AMERICAN ARMT AT THE MARNE, July 27. French and Americans advanced today along: Hie Fere - en - Tardenois - Jaul&onne road, southwest of Fresnes, pushing; back the Germans to a point fifty miles from the northeastern outskirts of Paris. The Germans have been making a stand in the Riz forest, east of Charmel, but this position will become untenable if the allies are able to continue their progress, prog-ress, and they will be forced to withdraw to escape being: entirely pocketed. We already have the main road from Fere-en-Tardenofs to the Riz forest under un-der continuous and heavy shell fire. How-evor, How-evor, it is quite likely that strong resistance re-sistance will be encountered around Fresnes, Fres-nes, despite the ease with which we captured cap-tured a farm position southwest of that village early today, after our artillery had pounded the farm throughout the night. (The French war office in its report tonight, indicated that the allies had advanced ad-vanced beyond Fresnes.) American infantry debouched from Fere wood, on both sides of the f;irm, and crossed the Fere-en -Tardenois road, despite heavy machine gun fire from the farm. Then they quickly took cover in the woods and pressed around the German Ger-man position on the farm, completely surrounding sur-rounding it. A signal was flashed back to our artillery, ar-tillery, which put down a heavy bombardment bombard-ment against the farm buildings for a few momenta. As the ffhulling ceased i our men clot-ed i n on both sides and i drove the Germans from their machine gun emplacements with grenades. The i boches were rounded up in the big cen-i cen-i tral courtyard, where sharp hand-to-j hand fighting occurred for a short time I around the piles of debris, ruined farm implements and heaps of n.anum. j The . surviving Germans, numbering about twenty, surrendered. They were famished, having been without food for nt-arly two days. The direct road to Fresnes from the farm Lies up a ravine and through the woods, which the Germans could sweep wifh machine gun fire as they fell back. In this sector during the morning wc araln made use of mounted patrols, throwing In a few horsemen along with the infantry at points where the contact con-tact with the enemy had b-en lost. Usually the horsemen were sent ahead to reconnoiter, but for the most ir they were in constnnt contact with the enemy and skirmishing was continuous. A few prisoners, mostly men left behind be-hind with machine guns, wore taken. Thus far there is no indications thnt the Germans p'ari an early retirement (Continued on Page Seven.) upon the Germans from three sides, has inflicted heavy losses upon the considerable consid-erable number of the enemy massed in this southern loop. The Germans shelled several villages in our rear last night and this morning-with morning-with gas projectiles. FffiyiHCIS DIE E1E1 BACK 1 (Continued from Page One.) from the Marne pocket, where the forests j enable them to contest every inch of ground. At the same time, the Germans have the advantage of good roads in their rear, affording the means of rapid withdrawal with-drawal in case our advance farther north should compel it. Our artillery, which has been playing |