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Show GERMANS STILL HOLD NORTH BANK OF THE MARNE LONDON, July 27. Discussing the German position within the Marne salient, sa-lient, neuter' s correspondent with the American troops in France says it is well to remember that the Germans still hold the north bank of the Marne for some eight miles from Vincelles to Reuil. This has not yet been disputed with them. t This alone, he adds, is proof that the enemy is not in a very desperate hurry to withdraw from the salient. "The early success of the French counter-attack," the correspondent continues, "has bred a disposition to expect further fur-ther rapid advances and perhaps huge captures, but the fighting in the salient offers to the aggressor only the advantage advan-tage obtainable from the enemy's congested con-gested condition, and even that cuts both ways, aa it leaves masses of men to oppose op-pose us. "Our progress the past week gave the enemy ample time to begin reorganization reorganiza-tion outside the salient. We are not likely like-ly to go much further without discovering a disposition to withstand us. "His position may not be an enviable one, but there are points in it not unfavorable un-favorable to- an attack." |