| Show THE SALT LA LAKE KE T HAG RAGES AT CATE ATt T Tt TO GERMANY t MA f British Batter Away at Foes Foe's Shortened Lines Soldiers Deny Stories i That That Huns Huns' Lack Grit By William Philip Simms United Press Staff Correspondent pARIS DAKIS Sept Sep The r The most 1 stubborn t b orn fighting seen in weeks weeks' is is taking place in n. n the thel l' l region s of Cambrai it St St. t Quentin and Soissons where th the armies of Gener Generals ls Byng Rawlinson Debeney and Mangin are battering against the they y very ry gates of ot Germany I WItha Vitha a desperation bordering on I panic Crown Prince Rupprecht General Gen Gen- GenI I eral von yon Boehm and the German crown crown prince are throwing g troops Int into the the melee e with orders to 10 hold or die dle diet retake or be killed I I Field Marshal von HIndenburg r realizes the menace to o his far flung fortress behind which lies the Hun frontier and is thus attacking The Theames ames allies ate are meeting the attacking Pru Prussians in in midfield In some sonie- sonie of the wildest fiercest grapples of the war NOT LICKED LICKED YET One big fact stands out ut In this thI fighting the fighting the boches are not ot yet licked For lor weeks the general tone of war stories has been that the Huns h haven't vent any more fight in them But If It you you want to make any regular fighting man mad be he American British or French Just intimate that thai his job Is easy and that the war is isnow isnow isnow now over He knows Germany c can n be belI Clicked ked finally but he readily ad admits ad- ad d- d i mits mite that much hard scrapping i Is i certain before the knockout He In Insists in- in I slats that the mushy stories to the contrary are helping the boche He points out that the Huns have shortened short short- I ened th their ir line Une seventy mil miles s by their retreat as a result of which only German divisions are holding the t e line I Inow now as compared with the HO needed before Marshal Marsh l Fochs Foch's counter of off offensive of- of II f 71 DIVISIONS R RESTING STIN Th Then 1 the Germans had only thirty thirty- five In reserve and thirty thirty- three resting or refitting refitting- Now they have bave thirteen In reserve and seventy seventy- one resting or refitting and three weeks Is considered ample time to refit unless something something- happens to prevent It Von HIndenburg thus Shortly Shortly- will have divisions four ur In r reserve serve r ready adY for operations operations- In the meantime the allies are now up against a line of the Huns Huns' own choosing giving the Jatter latter a big ad advantage ad vantage Unless the Germans are torn out of these positions they will willbe willbe be able to hold them with fewer tro troops ps still thus Increasing the number number num- num num num- ber of reserve divisions out of the theline theline theline line r resting and training |
