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Show oo i AMERICANS FACE j 250, 000GERM ANS Enemy Making Desperate Effort Ef-fort to Prevent Sweeping Victory byYanks. ALLIES SUPREME IN AIR American Aviators Now Big Factor in Fighting on West Front. i Reports to the war department, senators sen-ators were Informed, showed a vast' improvement in the airplane situation with production improving at a rate which they regarded as very favorable. The senators were told that the Germans Ger-mans are putting up a stiff resistance un the American line northwest of Metz, between the Argonne forest a'nd the Meuse. On this front which is about 30 miles j In length, the Americans face 250,000 I Germans who are making desperate j efforts to prevent the Americans from , obtaining a sweeping victory. ! American officers who have returned , from the front informed the senators that American aviators are now big factors in the fighting. There is no question, they declare, but that the allies al-lies are supreme in the air. Improved Casualty Reports. An extension of the Red Cross "follow "fol-low up system" has been Inaugurated by the war department so that details even of minor casualties among American Amer-ican soldiers abroad will be reported to the department General March said today the sys-I sys-I tem would record the name of every (man wounded and the nature of his injury. oo |