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Show ALLIED PLUCK AND SPIRITISM! HUNS ARE ON THE RUN, BEING UNABLE TO STAND UP TO THE AMERICANS AND FRENCH. Battering Tactics of Allied Forces Too Much for Crown Prince's Followers Who Are Desperately Fighting to Prevent Annihilation. With the Army in France. Franco. American troops, continuing their pres. ure on the Germans in retreat from the Marne, have reached and crossed the Oureq river and penetrated the town of Fere-en-Tardenois, one of the great German', supply bases for the enemy troops inside the Solssons-Rheims Solssons-Rheims salient. Meantime on the center of the allied right wing southwest of Itheims violent attacks by the French have forced the enemy to give further ground and enabled en-abled the French to capture several towns of strategic value and to draw their front appreciably nearer the high road which runs northeastward from Dormans to Ilheims. The Huns are on the run, but on the extreme wings of the gradually decreasing de-creasing pocket near boissons and Uhelms the enemy, heavily reinforced, Is holding tenaciouslyrealizing that successes there would result In a general gen-eral crumbling of his plans of defense against the locking upJof,hIs entire armies inside the big bag. In addition addi-tion to the large number of troops for reinrorcement inai nave ueen mrown on these two sectors, the German long range guns from the region north of Soissons and north and northeast of Uhelms are keeping both wings of the salient under a heavy enfilading fire. Under the battering tactics of the Americans and Frenchmen the German line on the south has now been driven back more than twelve miles from the point, south of Chateau Thierry, where the allied troops locked the door to Paris against the enemy July 18 and themselves bev.nne the aggressors in what has turned out one of the greatest great-est battles of the war. Our men have been making a number num-ber of small raids into German trenches, discovering the enemy' strength and dispositions nnd doing as much damage as possible in a short time. The English, Australian, Canadian Canad-ian and New Zealand troops have all been taking a share In these grim adventures ad-ventures and nearly every raiding party brought back a few prisoners. The line along the greater part of the bottom of Soissons-Rheims salient has '"been pushed forward in some places as much as five miles. The Germans are bringing into play their artillery in force to check the plunges of the Franco-American troops. The Americans have played a brilliant part in the advance, which Included .ae occupation oc-cupation of Scrgy, on the north bank of the river, and a number of small villages." |
