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Show KAISER'S FORCES SLUERED BY ALLIES 1 I With the French Army on the Aisne-Vesle Front, Aug, 3. -Havas Agency-The army I of the German crown prince continues n full retreat The Germans have no heavy I I artillery in action. They evidently foresaid that their positions were untenable, j I j The German losses have been very heavy a H I PARIS, Aug. 3. The French mray is holding several I fords across the Vesle river. The Germans have evidentl' given up the idea of making a stand there. 1 1 The Germans are retreating north of the Vesle with great ' I precipitation. Great fires are raging in the territory evacuated by the enemy. The German right wing on the north bank of the Aisne is in a dangerous situation and it is expected that they will be unable to hold their present position. If thic movement succeeds, the Ger-! Ger-! mans caught by Foch's "fish hook" will be compelled to fight at a great ; disadvantage, while their only retreat ' will be ever the high hills between the i Vesle and the Aisne. S There now seems to be no possibility possibili-ty of the Germans folding their (Inc, of the Vesle. The AlGne presents the first safe refuge for tho defeated -armies of the German crown prince. German forceG holding the line north of Albert In the Plcardy sector east of Amiens, have retired across the Ancre river, according to London. The retirement was over a front of between three and four miles. Thi3 movement was probably the result re-sult of the fear of the Germans that the British were about to attack in I great force. The enemy has withdrawn with-drawn to positions that are much stronger, There have been Intimations Intima-tions that the British have completed their organization for an attack somewhere some-where along the northern battle front and it is probable the Germans sought to forestall It by a "strategic retirement." retire-ment." As the situation stands today, the Allies have taken from the Germans nearly all the ground won after the second day of the German offensive on May 27. As yet the efforts of the Allies seem to be concentrated on the task of smashing the German armies south of the Vesle and the Aisne, but it is not generally believed that General Foch will abandon the initiative at the Aisne. LONDON, Axis. 3. British patrols last night pushed their way forward in the Albert sector, north of. the Somme and occupied parts of tho German front line, tho war office announced today. |