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Show GERMANS LEAVE MUCH TERRITORY Whole Plateau Between Coeuvres and Crise Valley in Hands of Allies. (By Associated Press.) WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN PRANCE, Aug. 2. The Germans aro in retreat on all sides of the salient between the Aisno and the Marne. On ! the west the French and British ; troops, continuing their push, of 1 Thursday, havo reached tho valley of tho Crise, a little river which Joins tho Aisno at Soissons. The Germans, therefore, have abandoned aban-doned the whole of the Chaudun plateau, pla-teau, between tho Coeuvres and Crlso valley. This ground has been a desperately desperate-ly disputed battlefield for weeks. It had been swept by the German heavy guns from the north of the line and from the east and probably was the hottest sector of the whole battle front In the center the French cavalry is in the big woods called the Forest do Nesles, a mile northeast of Fere-en-TardcnoIs. On tho allied left the troops aro in touch with tho forests of the Ardre, two miles north of VII-lers VII-lers Agron. The Germans, disregarding the military mili-tary considerations which counseled frank acceptance of defeat and rapid retreat many days ago in order to sparo their men for a new attempt. have been obliged to accept the inevit able and are falling back, probably to the Vesle river. Tho German crown prince's offensive offen-sive on the. Marne has failed as slg-najly slg-najly as that of von Kluck in 1914, and the last word is with tho allies. |