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Show HUNS HURLED BACK 61 ALLIED TROOPS GERMAN FORCES COMPELLED TO RETREAT BEFORE FRENCH AND AMERICAN ATTACKS. Past Week Has Been Disastrous for Huns, Thousands Being Killed or Captured and Nearly 500 Cannon Taken by Victorious Allies. Paris. The past week lias seen one success after another come to the allied forces, aud bitter defeat for the Germans. Ger-mans. The entire German Marne front has caved in and the Huns are on the run. The drive of the allies has been a complete com-plete success. . Undoubted signs are apparent tha't the Germans are withdrawing from the entire region between the Marne and 1he Ourcq, where the enemy has found it virtually impossible to maintain himself him-self because of the allies' steady -advance and bombardment. The advances scored by the allies in .the past week have been chiefly along the front on which Foch launched his counter-ofCen.sive. Arriving at Soissons the French stopped. The enemy rushed rush-ed troops into the town, but Foch did not strike at that point. He permitted The enemy to do the fighting in the Soissons region and delivered his punch further south along the line. The advantage gained thereby was that the enemy concentration at Soissons was valueless unless the enemy attacked. attack-ed. Realizing the situation, the German Ger-man high command ordered counterblows counter-blows along the line. They drove the allies back a little from Soissons and southward in the region of Hartennes. When these counter-blows bad spent their force the French and Americans ugain moved forward. By this time the Americans had taken the southern pivot at Chateau Thierry aud were moving rapidly north toward Epieds, ISrecy and Coincy. Further east the ' French aud Americans had crossed the Marne near .Taulgonne. Between Soissons and Chateau Thi-, Thi-, erry the enemy was fighting desper ately to hold another pivot, Oulchy le 'liateau. west of the base st Fere en Tardcnois. And to the north he fastened fast-ened a wedge into the Franco-American armies at Villemontoire. These two towns were -held by the enemy until Wednesday or Thursday, but both are now in possession of the allies. Our American forces moving from the south had been held up by furious counter-attacks at Epieds. Thrice ejected from the town, they captured it by a clever maneuver and pressed on. In the next two days the French and Americans had drawn a line beyond Villeinontoirs, Oulchy le Chateau, Coincy, which is several miles north of Epieds, and down to the river near Taulgonne. East of that the enemy continued to grip the river. One of the most brilliant moves made" by the generalissimo was the ' flinging of the British army into the fight just southward of PJielms. The enemy high commaud could hot have expected such a maneuver. When the full story of the battle is told, we shall probably hear that the allied airplanes and the heavy artillery artil-lery shooting to great distances were largely inst runienal in forcing the enemy ene-my to retire in the later stages of the hattle. They must have created mau a panic and caused disorganization ol an appalling sort along the railway and highways as well as at the bases During the week the French made 8 ' local attack southeast of Amiens, ir the 1'icardy sector. They ponotratec to a depth of about two miles on a , four-mile front, recapturing hul ground of great value. They took 1S00 prisoners, four cannon and unlet niililary material. In Hie past fifteen days the allies have captured about 30,000 prisoners, nearly "00 cannon, hundreds of machine guns. German rood supplies, munitions of all kinds and depots containing nil sorts of military material. In Albania the French and Italian. Hiave secured more ground and have ' taken hundreds of prisoners. American fighting troops have arrived ar-rived in Italy. |