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Show YANKEES ll IN TRMOF FIGHT Burden of Battle Falls to Sectors Where U. S. Troops Are. WASHINGTON", Oct. 29. The burden of the fighting- on the western front has fallen to those sectors in which the American Amer-ican forces are in the numerical majority, major-ity, according to staff observers of the existing situation. It is pointed out that the German strategy strat-egy to cover the retreat of their forces forces opposite Haig has forced the enemy to make furious attacks en the more southern sectors. The situation, therefore, is that General Gen-eral Liggett's First American army is in the forefront of daily fighting for advance and the repelling of attacks on a long line stretching eastward and southeastward of Grand Pre. On his left. Gener;U Bul-lard, Bul-lard, with Ihe Second American army, is fighting With great American forces in conjunction with the French from Rethel In an eastward and northeastward direction. di-rection. ' It is explained that the Germans have been forced to maintain a stiff tront in the sectors named to relieve the. steady pressure of General Haig against the German Ger-man army of the north. The retreat in the north has been going on for some time and there have been no great bat-ties bat-ties there like tbosc which are now being carried on by the Americans and French in the south. It is admitted that the progress of General Gen-eral Liggett has been slow, but it Is evident evi-dent to the general staff that both because be-cause of the healvy reinforcements of the Germans and the vital necessity of them snving Sedan, the Germans have launched many bloody counter-offensives, but have evidently, in every case. withdrawn ben ten. There is. however, to be no letup in the drive of the First army towards Sedan. The capture of Sedan, or the cutting of the railway connection at that point, military mili-tary men say, would be a blow which armistice arm-istice or no armistice, would socn bring about the capture of the whole northern German army. |