| Show ass THE VESLE HUNS RACING FOR NORTHERN BANK OF THE ASNE AISNE RIVER WITH ALLIES IN PU PURSUIT week of fighting results in great gains for allied forces who drive enemy back and take T toll 0 I 1 lof of men and munitions paris the german retreat continues unabated bated with the y I 1 where lit in hot pursuit I 1 r apparently the situation now lias resolved itself Itsel finto into a jacb race for ih the northern bank of tile the aisne aasne river by ahe th germans who have been evicted from froni strategic positions along thesle the besle ilver in III the center of tile ili lineard line and directly east of lUi elms which seemingly leni lers nee necessary essary iliac they put tife the ainne aisne between themselves elves and their pursuers pursue is to escape further largy losses 0 of inen inca made prisoners 4 just liow low large tills this bag of captives la Is lit at preset present cannot be reckoned iut but unofficial advises advices re received here assert that when the alie figures figured tire me made public they will thrill them alie allied world geu gen eral aral pershing in ills his ghys the A americans me ricans alone have lakert prisoners find and lit in alts 1 ta 3 guns the past week has been c one for the allied forces forces gr great t progress having been made in ig the germans back toward berlin vast ast quantities of stores find and a large number of guns lifting having been captured villo the I huns le have paid dearly in killed and wounded while the losses s by ilie tha allies lias its of course been heavier f chaa han during dm ing tin tile re regular g ular trench warfare var fare the ithe loss of life lias has not been near so 0 g great eat as one would aniag imagine ine since general foch began his lits great offensive behas lie hay been assailing lie enemy without cessation sa so that the ilie hieu have had very little res rest reatho tHo ho brought up tip british and and so scotch 0 te 11 hoops to aid in these thes e at attacks tricks on oil tile the wilhelms fade ade the british had made substantial gains but ut were daiv n back on oil the western or soissons Sois k ide sal salient lent the scotch find and aver held up tip at buzancy for sev several ral dais aay to the southward tile first break was wa made ade in the hie line lind at grand and cagny cugny ot oil thursday the american operations began to tell the enemy began 11 retreat at the center near Serg yand cierkes cierges find eastward thereof the french had taken still stajl lar far alier to tile the eastward but harlost lia had akl lost 9 s t 11 ii they recaptured recapture dit it andoos and closely invest ed ville en friday evening soissons Sols sons was was captured ca P the of Sols soissons sons etl earlier rl probably would have resulted ln if complete disaster to the enemy but general ej tern I 1 foch did not inalee anale a direct aleci assault until lie had brought up an adequate equate force of nien men guris guns tanks find and ammunition then lie launched tit an attack on it a wide front from a point nort northeast beast of soissons to grand beugneux beigneux and and aind at th tha same time there were attacks all along the line as far as Pi heims the result avis was eliat the german hue broke like ithe a dam am suddenly Mid denly struck cliby by it a great flood the F french eiith aed sol soissons s taking hundreds of prisoners and ili I 1 to the southward so lit hward the french I 1 and british clos clossal crossed sol the crise river in in a movement i r tile the hitherto impregnable gave wily way and 1111 the entire e german line was avas in it night flight then it was that tile the crown prince I 1 and in I 1 L j fidei 16 r fr realized that it would ie bo Impossible ti bold the lines of the ardra or vesle il livers e and a general was or or adored presumably to the line of th tha ainne aisne 11 kven Yent alie lik aisne aasne line is i g threat abr at enod by the advance advance of the allies p e vand soissons for the river rafi runs that town baing horth of the river on oil tl alie 0 line of Fo fontenoy Poni nir the french fren ell muy delve into tile glerman german right t flaak lank st astl 1 deeper in ili that lant event the alcile nue lup way become un tenable tenn ter jable ble find and the germany may decide that dl discretion dictates a ful ther retreat probably to atlie old line along tile the chemin des dinnes dajcs |
