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Show oo GERMAN RESERVES EXHAUSTED. NEW YORK, Aug. 31. Long before Marshal Foch began his brilliant counter coun-ter offensive on the Marne, the Germans Ger-mans had been told that his reserves had been exhausted. This is shown by a Wolff bureau dispatch published In the Berlin Tageblatt which described de-scribed the fighting about Chateau Thierry. "The hope of the entente regarding a decisive intervention of tho great army of maneuvers has been definitely shattered. The proud army of reserve which the war council of Versailles played out Its trump exists as such no longer," read the dispatch. "The great victory of the crown prince has shattered a considerable part of the enemies fighting force and has resulted ip the dissolution and completo dispersal of the Foch army of maneuver. The tremendous losses suffered by the entente on the extensive exten-sive fronts between Ypres and Rhcims Will he difficult to replace." This was published in Germany about a month before Marshal Foch struck the Germans on the Marne salient sa-lient and drove them back to the Vesle. It probably shows why the German public was so greatly surprised sur-prised by Marshal Foch's brilliant stroke. |