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Show BELIEVE HUN BOLT HAS JEN SHOT MILITARY EXPERTS EXPECT THE ALLIES WILL SOON BEGIN DRIVE FOR BERLIN. Although Germans Continue to Attack Allied Line Viciously, They Have Failed to Make Progress, and Even Have Been Driven Back. Washington. It seems clear to military mili-tary authorities here that the Hun drive has been frustrated, and that the German leaders realize this. As press accounts and the brief official of-ficial communiques from Paris and Berlin have so far disclosed the situation, situa-tion, the great thrust had been narrowed narrow-ed down in three days of fighting to one active sector, where the enemj still was moving sluggishly at last accounts. ac-counts. In effect, officers said, tha great offensive of-fensive already had degenerated into a purely local action on a front of less than twenty miles between the point Just east of the original American positions on the Marne in the Jaul-gonne Jaul-gonne sector, to the wooded region west pf Rheims. It is possible that the activity on the German left, in these woods, will result in a flanking operation at Rheims itself, but officers here were not inclined to think so. Officers looked with particular attention at-tention at the very hopeful prospect of a counter-stroke by the allies, which, they believed, might have important results. It was indicated by reports that the Germans stand with both Hanks exposed and with their communication com-munication lines seriously menaced. It was believed that unless the Germans' can widen out their positions they will be compelled to fall back to the river or face the possibility of being trapped as the Austrians were on the Piave. The extent of any counter-movement would depend wholly upon General Foch's available reserves and upon his own campaign plans. It is regarded as certain, however, that he would not overlook an opportunity to annihilate an enemy division or two; possibly the bulk of General von Boehm's army. |