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Show GERMAN SALIENTS) General NiveUVs Armies Hold Whip Hand in Great Aisne Offensive. GERMAN ANGLE BREAKS ! Troops Caught in a Vise and Fort Conde Captured Other Ground Lost. PARIS, April 20, 1 a. m. The failure fail-ure of the Germans to resist the pressure pres-sure of the French is the outstanding feature of the operations to date in the great offensive on the Aisne and in the Champagne. It is clear that General Neville's armies are in no danger dan-ger of losing the initiative and that gradually, but surely, all the salients along the Soissons-Auberlve front are bolng crushed. Tho principal salient to which the enemy had clung formed an angle where the front, running south from St. Quentin, hinged to the line running eastward toward Rheims. Caught as in a vise by the troops advancing northeast from Laffaux and northwest! from Vailly and Chavonne, the angle! collapsed yesterday and Fort Conde j was captured. Substantial progress also was made in the center, ground being won east and west of Craonne. |