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Show HUNS' RETREAT IS HARD TUSK Germans Before Yankees Have But One Line for Withdrawal. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY AT THE FRONT, Nov. 13. The American army is marking time until orders come from Marshal Foch for the next move. The roads near the front are filled with the panoply of the war that has ended. The soldiers are wondering when they will get home. Very few soldiers are seen along the front line, giving rise to the belief that plans already are under way for the retirement re-tirement back to their own border. The German command will have a difficult dif-ficult task, it 1b believed, to accomplish this in time, because since the Americans have cut the Mezieres-Longuyon line at Sedan the Germans have only one main line over which to return to Germany. This line runs through Liege, The terms of the armistice forbid American airplanes from going over the German lines and, inasmuch as no prisoners pris-oners are being taken, it Is virtually impossible im-possible to get any information as to the movements of the German army. The hours since the cessation of hostilities hos-tilities have wrought a wonderful change on the front. Silence has replaced the roar of battle. Ambulances are parked along the road, instead of bowling along on errands of mercy. The marching columns of troops going into battle have been replaced by laughing laugh-ing groups of American and French soldiers, sol-diers, rejoicing over the success of their great efforts. Everyone seems to take it for granted that the war cannot start again. Only one thing goes on as it did before the work of the German prisoners. prison-ers. By thousands they are repairing the damage German guns and mines have done to the roads of France. They have a large task ahead of them. |