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Show ONLY GRAY GORPSE LITTER BATTLEFIELD GERMANS LOSE LARGE NUMBER OF MEN WHEN ALLIES SPRING SURPRISE ATTACK. Officers of All Ranks Captured, Some of Them Being in Underclothes When Impetuous Allied Forces Come Swarming Over. raris. Latest news from the Pic-ardy Pic-ardy front indicates that the allies jumped on the Germans just as the latter were preparing for a machine gun rear guard resistance similar to that up by them on the Ourcq. The allies' evidently smashed through .before the Germans could get ready. I Officers of all ranks have been captur-! captur-! ed, some of them in their underclothes, I which is further proof of the utter suiv prise of the allied blow. The allies have taken 500 cannon and'3G,000 captives cap-tives in their recent drive. The German divisions are easily identified since the troops had no time to remove their masks as they usually I do. Only field gray corpses litter the battlefield. There are scarcely any bodies in khaki or blue. A German retirement back to the 1915 line seems extremely probable under the force and pressure of the impetuous allied armies. Paris is overjoyed at the progress of events at the front. Every hour brings new cheerful tidings. The sun-bathed boulevards were crowded Sunday by truly gay Parisians, celebrating the wiping out of the German threat on i the Oise, so hard on the heels of the elimination of the Teuton menace on the Marne. Compeigne, the northeastern northeast-ern rail key of the French capital, is definitely saved by the events of the last three days. , A German deserter, an artilleryman, told his French captors that the German Ger-man shortage of horses is critical. Front dispatches are full of praise for the allied Red Cross service, which follows close in the wake of the armies, advance stations sprouting like mushrooms mush-rooms everywhere. The Germans' are using gas lavishly in all their attacks and the French and Americans are reciprocating with gas projectiles in profusion. |