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Show ; FRENCH ADMIRE GREATGENERAL Blow in Picardy Carried Out With Consummate Skill Allies Rapidly Gaining. PARIS, Aug. 9. Marshal Foch has struck the Germans on a new front and French opinion, lay and professional, profes-sional, is lost in admiration of the manner in which the blow has been carried out. The present manoeuvor is similar to the counter-offensive north of tho Marno in that it is directed toward squeezing two sides of a salient, Ahead of the front which the allies already have reached lies the Peronno-Roye highway and they are gaining rapidly toward it. This road has the same 'importance '. to the present battle as the Solssons-Chateau-Thiorry road in the battle for i Fero-en-Tardenois. If the allies reach it all, tho German troops south of ; Montdidier, Lassigny and Noyon would bo placed in as serious a predicament pre-dicament as those. on tho Marae on ' July IS. That would be the first and I immediato consequence, i |