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Show HUNS HIKING HOME. Airmen Report Roads Dense With Retreating Re-treating Troops. London. The Argonne massif, which has proved a great obstacle to the advance of the French and Americans, Ameri-cans, at last has been cleared of the enemy, and the entire line appears to lie crumbling. American airmen report re-port that the enemy in front of Hie Americans are retreating northward, that the roads are densely packed with troops, artillery and transport. Likewise southeast of Valenciennes Germans are retreating before British, who are in close pursuit and taking numerous prisoners. North of the Aisne in Champagne French continue their pressure and have taken several important villages, large numbers of prisoners and great quantities of stores. The advance of the Americans and French on the southern part of. the battlefront, taken in conjunction with the operations of Field Marshal Haig and the Belgians in the north, threatens threat-ens to prove the culminating blow to Germany's attempt to bold ground in France or Belgium. Indeed, it is not improbable if the advance from the south continues as rapid as it is, the greater portion of the German army will be trapped before the men can reach their border. The situation of the Germans seemingly is a critical one. |