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Show I WEEK'S FIGHTING I ON WEST FRONT H, Whole of Crown Prince's Re-serves Re-serves Exhausted and Gcr-' Gcr-' mans in Awkward Predicament. LONDON, July 26. As n result of the past -week's activities tho whole situation on the western front has been transformed. The Germans, ac cording to dispatches from the front, Hl have used sixty -.Ave divisions on the Champagne front and the whole of tho crown prince's reserves have been c.- Hh hausted. The only fresh reserves re-malning re-malning to tho Germans are less than thirty divisions attached to Crown Prince. Last week il appeared certain that Hj Prince Rupprccht would' be called upon to launch an attack upon tho British front but tho enemy put off j this attack and tho psychological mo-HM mo-HM mcnt for it probably has passed, for H' the Germans appear committed to the i great battle in progress and cannot af-ford af-ford to slake heavily on a dubious op J oration at another part of the front, fl according to the view or British ex- The German situation in tho salient, aJ though awkward is not untenable. Hj The enemy's dililcultieH are not groat-or groat-or than those -in which the British army was placed for many months in tho Ypres salient, before the capture of Messincs ridge. The Ypres salient, was flvi miles wide and live miles i deep and was dominated by the.! enemy. The present German salient is i now twenty miles wide and twenty miles deep and, similarly, is dominut-cd dominut-cd by the allied artillery. Captured documents show the en-cmy en-cmy had mado up his mind on the day after the allied offensive began to Hr undertake a retirement to line along Hl1 cither the Ardre or Vesle and had ac-tually ac-tually given orders for this. The orders i were later cancelled, presumably ow-H,j ow-H,j ing to the difficulty of effecting van or-j or-j derly retreat in the pinched salient. It is possible they have decided to retain tho positions us long as possible, fl Military writers point out the allies 'i aro using up the German reserves in a battle whore the Germans are con-i con-i tinuously in a disadvantageous posl-tion posl-tion is entirely satisfactory. If the ' enemy remain's he cannot undertake fl I any important offensive and tho al-' al-' lies could hold the salient lightly and ' devote their energies elsewhere. One reason for the Germans' aban- donmcnt of the plan for retirement is Hl , found in the reports of allied airmen, , which show tremendous congestion along the lines of German communica-j communica-j tion. The Germans may be merely j ( holding on as long as possible to effect 1 an orderly withdrawal and to remove 'i the vast accumulations of stores and munitions which had been gathered in this district ready for a great advance southward. I Undoubtedly a big effort will be made to straighten out the confusion which now exists along all the arter-j arter-j 1 ics of the salient. All these arteries J aro now constantly under tho allies' shell fire and work alongtheni must 1 bo very difficult. |