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Show RESERVES NEARLY USED UP. Two Crown Princes Will Have to Make Drafts from Other Fronts. Paris. The Bavarian crown prince's reserves are well-nigh used up. That alone would be sufficient reason to preclude pre-clude a large scale counter offensive in Picardy. As was said repeatedly last week, Flanders and Verdun are the only fronts on which LudendorlT might conceivably try to redeem himself. him-self. But if the present allied pressure pres-sure continues, particularly if the French extend their attack southward to the Aisne, and there resume their hammering of the crown prince's battered bat-tered forces, the two crown princes will have to make heavy drafts on the other fronts Frederick William on the Verdun army and Rupprecht on his Flanders forces. Thus the prospect pros-pect looms large of Foch compelling Ludendorff to concentrate every ounce of combative man power for a defense at least 100 miles long (from Albert to the east of Rheims) and possibly 150 miles in length for if the allied advance in Picardy is followed up on the British right as it was Monday (when the Americans entered the outskirts out-skirts of Bray) the attack will spread promptly to and beyond Arras. |