Show Allies Attack t Straighten Lines Lines- 1 By Associated Press WITH THE Al ARMY O-l O I ITHE THE MARNE AISNE-MARNE FRONT Aug 1 and French troops an attack late yesterday afternoon aft aft- to- to on the center of the front for the purpose of straIghtening the and demolishing barbed wire entangle entangle- I ments which the Germans have placed I II I through the forests and open I places I HUNS USE i iThe The Germans used a new gas hav- hav I ing a white and smoke The allies brought into action their I their aviators and pa- pa trois' trois having reported after mile of barbed wire standing along German Ger- Ger man lines The heavy guns soon found the range of the entanglements Some enemy Infantry had dug in behInd wires but the lines were for the most part manned by machine gunners ARTILLERY DULL Th German reply consisted chiefly of shells from the and i iThe I The guns with the heavIer 1 pieces w re active In an effort to pre pre-I vent an advance The purpose ot the American and French attack which was In a northeasterly north north- easterly Is' Is probably for purpose of outflanking th wood and In off the blunt edg d salient In the line between and Cierges This salient wall made more acute by vance from to |