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Show CAN'T HOLD THEM BACK. Americans Advance in Spite of Great ' Odds. . Washington. The American second sec-ond army, under Major General Billiard, Bill-iard, is holding the line in llie Woevre. This was disclosed by General Gen-eral Pershing in his communique received re-ceived Saturday night at llie war department, de-partment, liepulso .of heavy German' attacks on the front northwest of Verdun by Major General l.iggeil's first American arn'iy also was reported. re-ported. in iis first major operation against tlrf. Germans, considering llie clearing out of the St. Mihiel salient as a local affair, the American army, in a lew-da lew-da vs less than a month, lias liberal ed more than forty-five villages and advanced ad-vanced lo an average depth of ten miles, freeing 105 square miles of ter-ritorv. ter-ritorv. In the offensive the Americans Ameri-cans have captured more than "20.000 prisoners. |