Show I HUNS is mi APPLY miTO TO COVER COVE A T BLOW UP MUNITIONS DUMPS AND BURN STORES WHICH THEY COULD NOT REMOVE Franco American Troops Continue Th Their lr Forward Drive and Germans Now ow Evidently vi enty fi Realize at That Allies Have per Upper Hand With the Army in Trance No North th of the Marne Marue the tile Germans are tUo making preparations for a u further cr retreat In Inthe the angle pen i the Mai Marue larne ne and the Ardre on the eastern side of 01 tile the salient allent the enemy has been blow blowing In up dumps and burning stores which which have ha not hu had time ime to ic- ic move mo move The En ms t Is in a 11 heavy wooded and broken country without main toads roads un and 1 railways in ln In V shape to use V. V To feed the Sols sons sons-Manie ons front the Germans have only one railway line from front the In the nel neighborhood neighbor hood of to Ba where It Joins the main line lInc O of ot the tile SoIssons toad road The latter road Is still In condition for use for a u certain distance distance distance dis dis- tance on each side of 01 hut but the Jun junction there is being bombed constant V Th The remaining force of the enemy ma may maj possibly fall fan back io to the line of ot Ves Vesie le abandoning the rISe nail and the thc commanding plateau surrounding the Crise and va valleys les V That the Germans nO now nov realize to the full that the allies have ha the upper hand In the battle h seems apparent ent from reports that th they y are burning vIllages behind them in their retreat and d destroying de do large qU quantities l titles of munitions and war wair materials throughout the entire entire en tire Salient which the they have ha found it impossible to move mo owing to the rapid strides s of ot the allies Big guns guus now are throwing shells far behind the tue lines searching out the entire countryside allied airplanes are harrying the retreating columns with machine gun gunfire fIre fire V V The efforts of the Germans to re retard e tard the Franco Franco Franca American forces were j hea V Monday In the reg regIon regIon region ion of Grisolles find and St. St Germain respectively northwest and nUd north of Chateau Thierry where the Americans I nr ar are giving battle On all three sectors i the en enemy em lost host further ground and am I his hits forces In the Chateau Thierry po pocket ket were therefore placed in greater great great- I er jeopardy 1 V th the seriousness of 01 his s predicament the crown Tow prince I is said I t to have sent ent out distress sig signals signals sig- sig nals to his cousin Cro Crown n. n Prince Hup Hup- pr cht of ot Bavaria whose men are facIng facing fac fac- ing the Britten hi tn n Fran France e and d dispatched a se several er ll divisions s sot of ot oft res reserves reserves- rv s s. s To offset offset this Field Mar sh shah t iI Haig lg I immediately nm diat I det detached bed an au equal qu number number of dIvI divisions ons' ons of picked British troops from and moved them Into the battle area southwest south- south w west est est of J V In Iii France and Flanders the British cont continue to to harass the German fines nes with small attacks and raiding operations opera opera- while the Italians are re keep keeping g gup up their pr pressure ng against the Austrians Aus Aus- Austrians both in the Italian n theatre and andIn andIn andin In Albania Albana V V |