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Show HEWS REVIEW OF THE GREAT WAR General Foch Is Squeezing the Crown Prince's Army Out of Soissons-Reims Salient.. HUNS IN PERILOUS POSITION American Troops Are Highly Praised for Their Fine Work British In Flanders Take Meteren Silly Exploit of U-Boat Off Cape Cod. By EDWARD W. P1CKARD. "We've got 'em on the run" was the Joyful cry of America as the news came in of the victorious progress of the allied troops in the Soissons-Kelms salient. In a measure this was true, for the Germans were being gradually squeezed out of the salient, and there was every reason for elation over the splendid fighting of the allies. But to hail the success as a great decisive victory was premature and foolish. Such running as the Huns did was done only at the start of Foch's offensive, offen-sive, when they were taken by surprise. sur-prise. Their commanders quickly regained re-gained some measure of control, and thereafter the enforced retreat was conducted skilfully and slowly, every bit of ground being bitterly contested In order that as many guns and as much supplies as possible might be saved. Realizing that his entire army south of the Aisne was in grave danger, dan-ger, the crown prince sent in more and more of his reserves until 40 divisions were engaged, and desperate efforts were made to stabilize their lines of defense. However, nothing was allowed al-lowed to stop the steady forward movement of the allies on three fronts of the salient, and the path of retreat re-treat was narrowed day by day. All a strong force of English and Scots troops down from the north, and they quietly slipped around south of the Marne toward Reims. At the appointed ap-pointed time these seasoned fighters hit the German lines southwest of the cathedral city a mighty blow. Iu the succeeding days, acting as the east arm of the pincers, they pushed forward for-ward Into the salient from the Mountain Moun-tain of Reims toward Ville-en-Tarde-nois and Fismes. Their progress was slower than that of the Franco-Arneri-cans on the west, for the country in which they were fighting was much more difficult. East of Reims the French and Italian held their own and even made some advance, though the plan did not call for a drive by them. PE3 When Foch's offensive was a week old it appeared probable that Luden-dorff Luden-dorff would attempt to make at least a temporary stand on the half-circle running from Soissons through the outskirts of Oulchy, below Fere-en-Tardenois and across toward the Mountain of Reims. Competent observers ob-servers believed his troops were too disorgtinized to hold this line for long, and that he would be forced to fall back to the Vesle river, which runs almost al-most due west from Reims, joining the Aisne near Soissons. The main efforts of General von Boehm, the immediate commander of the Germans in the salient, were directed di-rected to keeping open the roads of retreat. He was given the assistance not only of most of the crown prince's reserves, but also of nine divisions from the army of Crown Prince Ru-precht Ru-precht of Bavaria. Already he was aving great difficulty in feeding the men he had there, and the additions did little but stiffen his resistance and add to his commissary troubles. At the time of writing, the full scope of General Foch's plans Is not revealed. re-vealed. He lias the initiative, and may elect to continue the offensive with all his strength in the effort to drive the Huns beyond the Aisne and as I much farther as they can be forced ; or he may find it prudent to hold them I at the Vesle and await the arrival of more Americans. It Is a noteworthy , fact that 70 per cent of the allied troops engaged in the present battle are French. A considerable portion of the remainder are British and Italians. Ital-ians. If so much can be done with so comparatively small a force of Americans Ameri-cans taking part, ask observers, what will happen to the Huns when a million mil-lion Americans are in the fighting line and another million at least waiting their turn for action? And this state of affairs will be reached by October, it is predicted. Ira Paris and London are loud In their praise of the quality and behavior of the Americans in the Alsne-Marne battle, bat-tle, and the newspapers there relate many instances of their bravery, coolness cool-ness and determination. They are admittedly ad-mittedly as fine troops its ever were seen, and even the. least experienced of th'-tti have no idea of anything but winning every fight they go Into. Their marksmanship, both with the rifle; and with larger weapons, is remarkable; re-markable; their doggedness is tempered tem-pered with an unquenchable humor, and their stamina is such that at times bodies of them fought for many hours without food or drink, declining lo halt their advance to let the commissary commis-sary catch up with them. These splendid troops, with their gallant and competent officers, have done their full part In stopping the German offensive and converting it Info an allied offensive, offen-sive, and If Ibey are now called on to stop and await the arrival of more of their countrymen, America should rest satisfied, patient and proud. The American casualty lists will be longer "'id longer each day for a t'me, but the bereaved ones may well take example ex-ample by the proud, unweeplng grief with which Colonel Roosevelt received the news of the death of his gallant son, Quentln. Tn Flanders the British carrieif out an Important operation that resulted In the rapture of Meteren. They have been devoting themselves to preparing for the new offensive which, according to the logic of the situation, Liiden-dnrff Liiden-dnrff must undertake and which, according ac-cording to military expert s, probably will be directed against sonic part of the line In. Id by the British. Such fin offensive would lie largely to Influence-public Influence-public opinion In Germany and direct attention away from the crown prince's disastrous attempt on the Marne. General Foch has not had to call into action the bulk of his reserves. In the midst of the biggest battle he found time to order a swift and fierce attack by the French along the Avre, in the Montdidier sector. The positions posi-tions aimed at were feebly held by tired troops that did not expect an attack, and the objectives were gained within a few hours, large numbers of prisoners being taken,. 153 Rome received the information from some source that the Austrians were preparing a triple - offensive against Italy. This, according to the story, Js to consist of a great land attack on the Piave river line, a naval attack on Italy's Adriatic coast and an extensive counter-attack in Albania. The Italian Ital-ian commanders have no doubt of their ability to repulse any or all of these attacks. In Albania their forces, with the French, have kept moving forward for-ward and are now in very strqng positions. po-sitions. The threat of a serious naval operation by Austria seems most foolish fool-ish of all. Pa-President Pa-President Wilson completed bis pro nouncement of plans for the participation participa-tion of the United States in the Russian Rus-sian expedition and was awaiting only the reply of Japan to the American proposals. It had been thought Japan had agreed to these, but dispatches from Tokyo told of an exciting controversy contro-versy over them, two influential groups strongly opposing intervention. Moscow Mos-cow advices said general mobilization of the Russian army meaning the bolshevik! had begun, but this did not worry the allied statesmen. The plans of the British, Americans and French for the protection of the Mur-man Mur-man region against the Germans and Finns are believed to be all settled. The people will be fed and their Internal In-ternal affairs will not be Interfered with by the expedition that will be sent. General Horvath. provisional ruler of Siberia, Is co-operating with the Czecho-Slovaks, and matters' look more promising in that country. Conditions In the Ukraine grow more unsettled daily, and now the Germans and Austrians are called on to face a great uprising In Roumania, where the people are disgusted with the peace with the central powers and with the treatment they are receiving. Probably Proba-bly half a million Teutonic troops are tied up in these two countries, which helps some. tS The Atlantic seaboard was amazed rather than alarmed by the sudden appearance ap-pearance of a large German submarine close to Cape Cod. The vessel attacked at-tacked a tug and. stink the three stone-laden stone-laden barges it was towing, using up , two torpedoes and a lot of ammunition in this footless operation. Other U- , boats bagged bigger game when they sank the British transport .Tusticia, 32.'JH4 gross tons, olf the Irish coast. The transport, which was westward bound after carrying 10,000 American 1 soldiers to Europe, was attacked by n fleet of six or eight submarines and fought them for ten hours. Of her crew of some GOO oin-r ten were killed. r ! So foolish as scarcely to merit mention men-tion is the latest list of German peace terms, which It Is said will be offered through Spain. They disown any desire de-sire for annexations or Indemnities on the west front, but would leave Belgium, Bel-gium, the Balkans and the self-determination of peoplea for the peace conference con-ference to settle; the peace treaties with Roumania and Russia not to be questioned, and all Germany's colonies to be restored. Also the seas are to be free and Gibraltar and the Suez I canal defenses dismantled. r The British government Is having trouble with the pacifists, who have permeated all the war material factories, fac-tories, and last week caused strikes of thousands of munition workers. The cabinet decided, it was reported, that if the strike continued the strikers of military age would be drafted Immediately Immedi-ately into the armv. M Finally authentic word of the death of the former cztir came out of Russia, Rus-sia, lie was ordered shot by a local bolshevik official because of counterrevolutionary counter-revolutionary plots, and his son Is said to have died of exposure a few days later. .of the territory yet held by the enemy was brought under the fire of the heavy guns, and the airmen in great numbers flew over the region day and night, working havoc with their bombs and machine guns. fe At the beginning of the week there were highly successful operations on the west front of the salient, in both of which the Americans played an Important Im-portant part. At the tip of the German Ger-man advance Chateau Thierry was taken by storm and a large section north and east of it was cleared of Huns. Here thousands of Germans were killed, other thousands captured, and groat numbers of cannon and quantities of supplies were taken. From this point northward to Sols-sons Sols-sons the Franco-Americans swept east- j ward until Neuilly St. Front was tak- I en. Oulchy threatened. Soissons itself brought under gunfire and the very Important Im-portant railroad from there to Chateau Thierry crossed at so many places that it could no longer be used by the enemy. en-emy. This drive, to be wholly successful, suc-cessful, had to be carried to Fere-en-Tardenols, through which ran the only remaining railway which the Huns could rely upon to get their war supplies sup-plies out of the way of Foch's pincers, and before the week closed the French and Yankees were moving steadily to- j ward that town from the west and south. It must not be supposed that . their xirogress was easy. The Germans Ger-mans counter-attacked repeatedly am' fought brave and stubborn rear-guard battles. The village of Epieds, for in stance, after being taken at the poln' of the bayonet by the Americans, was recaptured by the Huns, and again , won by the Yankees, who then advanced ad-vanced their lines far beyond It. Rome of the fiercest fighting took place along the Marne east of Chateau Thierry. At first the Germans retreated retreat-ed across the river so hastily that the movement amounted almost to p, rout. From the heights of Jaulgonne, I'.arzy and Passy. the American guns poured a deadly hail upon the fleeing foe, many of whom, throwing away their rifles, sought to swim the river, and were drowned. -n- j When l-'i'i li was secretly preparing ( n tfr, t strategic attack he called ' |