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Show FIFTY DIVISIONS , IN GERMAN LINE French Facing 675,000 Troops With Others in Immediate Immedi-ate Support. ; WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE. June 1 The formidable nature of the German effort may be ! gathered from the absolute identlflca-1 identlflca-1 tion of nearly fifty of their divisions j i (about 675,000 men). There certainly 1 are a number of other divisions in immediate im-mediate support. The divisions taking pail in the offensive of-fensive which have been added recently re-cently belong to the volunteers army. : All of them were engaged In the March1 j battle and afterwards were sent to the ' rear to be fitted out and to recei'3! ! special training. I The enemy is increasing continually tbe number of troops engaged in the , battle. The general idea, when the of-j of-j Tensive began, appears to have been 'that each enmy division should occupy oc-cupy a front of only 2000 yards. Since 1 thai time the line of battle has been 1 extended, and. in order to maintain the density ot the attacking army, further fur-ther units have been brought from the ; rear and thrown into the fight. Huns Await Return Blow. The time and place of the return! blow by the allies BeeniB to be puzzi Ing the German commanders, who are endeavoring to secure strong points for pivots The task of strengthening the retiring retir-ing divisions of the allies, where this is necessary, was placed in the hands 1 of the local reserves It has been carried car-ried out exceedingly well under the most difficult circumstances, By pushing on the northern bank of I the Marne, the Germans have brought: 1 the point of their fan like movement I to a sharp salient. They evident! are I anxious to develop the advantage thus: gained by pressing westward from Ichartevea to Chateau Thierry. The correspondent watched the I enemy's movements' in this vicinity, which were plainly visible in the brilliant bril-liant sunshine All their efforts tended ' westward. Thf allied artillery is making splen- 1 1 did practice on the Herman iroops. |