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Show Advance of Entire Front Line Causes Elation. CAVALRY IN PURSUIT Allied Forces Approaching Approach-ing Towns West of Rheims - ON THE FRENCH FRONT IN FRANCE, Aug. 3. 11 a. m. (By tho Associated Press.) The allied advance ad-vance along the Soissons-Rheims front continued throughout last night and this morning. Tho banks of the Aisne have been reached along the front from Pommiers, west of Sois-sons, Sois-sons, to Venizel on the east of that town. Further east the allies have reached the district of Serches, Couv-rellos Couv-rellos and Cerseuil. Cavalry patrols have arrived at the river Vesle in the vicinity of Cham-pigny Cham-pigny and Jonchery, finding all the bridges cut or burned by the Germans. Ger-mans. Just west of Rheims the allies have reached, or are approaching TInqueux, Thillois, Gueux and Rosnay, all lying in the neighborhood of the main road from Rouen to Rheims. Fires are illuminating il-luminating the skies everywhere, tho enemy burning everything as he retreats. re-treats. More than forty conflagrations were cojunted during the night. LONDON IS ELATED. LONDON, Aug. 3. The advance of the entire allied line in the Soissons-Rheims Soissons-Rheims salient is commented on here with olation. Dispatches are regarded as revealing a transformed situation coinciding with tho arrival of American Ameri-can detachments so strong as to give the allies a numerical advantage in reserves re-serves and justifying high hope for the future The newspapers devote much space to the anniversary of Great Britain's entry into the war and the preparations prepara-tions for 'the services of commemoration commemora-tion and intercession of Sunday. Commenting on the anniversary the Times says: "We are passing through a period of upheaval which may be. more pregnant with good or evil than the French revolution or the downfall of the Roman Ro-man empire. America Rises to Heights. "In America the results have been the clearest and most immediate. Her people have risen to the height of her destinies and in so rising have realized realiz-ed for themselves that Germany has made them a nation as she had "made us an empire in a truer and larger sense than before. Tho development of a new sense of America's duty toi humanity in the mind and conscience of her peoplo has been immeasurably tho most momentous event of the fourth year of the Avar and may be, by far the most momentous of our times." PERIOD OF CRISIS PASSING. LONDON, Aug. 3. Field Marshal Halg. commander in chief of the British Brit-ish forces in France, in his fourth of August message on the occasion of the anniversary of the entry of Great Britain into the war, says to his troops: "The conclusion of the fourth year marks the passing of the period of crisis. The Russian revolution set free large hostile forces which wero transferred to the western front. The enemy Intention was to use great numbers num-bers and to gain a decisive victory before be-fore tne arrival of American troops could give superiority to the allies. The enemy has failed. Tho steady stream of Americans arriving in Franco has restored the balance." |