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Show Slowly retreating, the Germans are fighting fight-ing stubbornly as they retire. Persistent as w-as the German rearguard rear-guard defense, however, the enemy's most intense efforts to hold his lines are still being put forth on his flanks in the Rhetms and Soissons regions. GERMANS DRIVEN OUT OF WOODED AREA BY ALLIES By the Associated Press. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT, July 27, S:30 a. m. The Franco-American forces on the front northeast of Chateau Thierry have driven the Germans almost entirely out of the wooded area which they have been so stubbornly defending. The allied pressure Is being constantly maintained and early today the punishment of the enemy by artillery lire was resumed with added vie:or. Under the cover of the guns the Franco-American troops again been. n era w ling f o r wa r d . The advance is bringing the allies still nearer to the important road junction of Fere-en-Tardenois. It is being carried out through the remainder of the dense woods in this region and over the rain-soaked rain-soaked fields and hills on their outskirts. |