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Show SOISSONS HELD U1ERJLS. GUNS Troops Would Expose Themselves Them-selves to Flank Attack If City Were Occupied. PARIS, July 21. The reason that French and American troops havo not occupied Soissons is explained by Major Ma-jor de Clvlreux, military critic of the Matin. Ha writes: "Tho striking capture of Soissons might seem at first sight to bo more important, but to hold tho city and railway stations under our artillery fire from their heights to tho east is sufficient and it is the wisest policy, as an exaggerated movement eastward east-ward along the Aisne would expose our left to a flank attack like that with which the German crown prince in Rtrutreline. " |