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Show Allies Now Eating Into Seventh as Fight I Progresses. BLOWS FALLING FAST Foch Pursuing His Plan I With Unvarying 1 Success. I PARIS, Aug. 22 The Allies have, I damaged six German armies since B June 15 and the British are now cat- ing into the seventh with tho spread B of the battle northward and over a B front of seventy miles. Whether tha Si enemy is prepared or unprepared, AN ffl lied efforts have had the same results fjl and the Germans have been outgencr- fn aled and outfought. The armies at- jfl lacked and damaged have been thoso II of Generals von Enim, von Mudro, von Boehn, von Ebon, von Hutier and voa 1 der Marwitz. ' It is believed, .generally J.hat Mar.v 'I sIl.JEbh'iinis-jioX-as the Gcr- 1 mans say, to pierce their line but to jgj strike a succession of blows to cause m, the enemy irreparable Josses in men- 1 and material and to force him to make u more or less disastrous retreats. IC 1 that be so he is pursuing it with skill 1 and unvarying success. I ON THE FRENCH FRONT IN I FRANCE, Aug. 22 The operation. I which resulted in the fall of Lasslgny I Wednesday began with a successful 3 thrust from the west by a battalion 1 of Chasseurs. 9 Dvett wood, a strongly fortified po- H sition, which had delayed the French I for two days, was taken in a sudden I dash nnd the battalion reached tho a outskirts of Lassigny on the west and m on the north. flj Meanwhile, other units were south fl of the outskirts of Lassigny and cross- fl ed through the town chasing the Gcr- H mans before them. By noon a com- I pany of engineers had cleared out the 1 town and captured the last enemy oc- cupants. 1 PARIS. Aug. 22 A new fourragero or alguileile has been devised for tho f foreign legion in recognition of its B having won eleven citations in offi- S cial orders. The legion was the flVst m organization to bo awarded the first mS fourragero which is the same colors jg as the war cross. It was the first W winner of the second fourragero which 1 has the colors of the military medal and was the first and for a long time H tho only winner of tho third four- I ragere which is red, the color of tho I Legion of Honor. It now will be first fl and only organization to carry the new fl fourragore which is a tri-color. I |