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Show i ? i Opportunity for Glorious Har-! J vest by the Allies May I i Be at Hand. i ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. Almost unvarying success described in today's dispatches telling of the great allied offensive on the fifty-mile front ! J stretching from Soissons northward j to tho environs of Arras raised hopos S in military circles here for the most G severe defeat yet administered to the, $ Germans. Observers were of the opin-i ion that General Foch's whittling tac-1 $ tics of the past six weeks have becuj so effective that opportunity has come! & for a glorious harvest. 1 3 Absence of any mention of Amori- S can troops in the descriptions of tho f great fight led lo Interested specula- tion as to the whereabouts of General I Pershing's thirty divisions which. ac-j'S cording to recent announcement are to' f be included in the first American field! army. That practically all of these units havo completed their training for f& which they were brigaded with lhe' British and French has been known f for some time. y It has been thought a considerable K number of Americans still arc with the' K3 Jirmsn THird and Fourth armies and'Kj most military officers were at a loss! $ to understand why they had not been 3? Identified in tho capture of some of the! yK important enemy positions overrun1 during the day. Recent evidence of tho mettle of Pershing's forces made it i certain, it was believed that if Amerl- 3$ can divisions were with the allied) iS5 troops, their locality tonight would be I & at the apex of the advance. Some ad -I $1 vanced the theory tho movement of m American divisions to the sector as- 5 signed to the first American army is m under way. l& Concentration at this time of the & United States divisions on the all- M? American front when the forward SB movoment of the more northern arm- s ics promises so much might mean H6 General Foch has assigned to General Kg Pershing some important task closely E&; linked with the major strategy. W Wsi |