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Show jTACTICAL GAINS OF THE ALLIES I i Attacks Prevent Ludendorff From Regrouping His Troops and Making Counter Offensive. PARIS. Aug. 20 Apart from the tactical results obtained, the Allied attacks at-tacks between the Somme and the Aisne in the last two days, modestly called local operations in the war office of-fice communiques, have the important effect of keeping the enemy on the alert and preventing him from preparing pre-paring a counter-offensive The attacks made it impossible for General Ludendorff to re-group his troops. They have obliged him to maintain more than" 110 divisions in the first line which have to be relieved re-lieved constantly. At several points I it has been necessary for him to in-) in-) crease the densify of the first line. I The army of von Eben, which holds tho line from Carlepont to Missy-sur-Aisne had only ten divisions in the first line on August 15. Tho recent French operations on that front, it is believed here, will make it necessary for General von Boonn to send him i reinforcements. I nn . |