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Show HUHSAPPLY TORCH " j 10 C0VERJ1ETREAT BLOW UP MUNITIONS DUMPS AND BURN STORES WHICH THEY COULD NOT REMOVE. Franco-American Troops Continue Their Forward Drive, and Germans Now Evidently Realize That Allies Have Upper Hand. With the Army in France. North of the Maine the Germans are making preparations for a further retreat. In the allele between the .Marue and the Ardre, on the eastern side of Hie salient, the enemy has heen blowing lip mimiiion dumps and hurtling stores which they -have not had lime to remove. re-move. The enemy's pusiiion is in a heavy wooded and broken country, without main roads and railways in shape to use. To feed llie Soissons-.Marne front the Germans have only one railway line from the Aisne in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of Moury to Bazoclies, where it joins the main line of the Soissous-Uheims Soissous-Uheims road. The latter road is sliil in condition for use for a certain distance dis-tance on each side of Kazoehes, hut the junction there is being bombed constantly. The remaining force of ithe enemy may possibly fall back to the line of Vesle. abandoning the Crise and the commanding plateau surrounding the Crise and Vesle valleys. That the Germans now realize to the full that the allies have the upper hand in the battle seems apparent from reports that they are burning villages behind them in their retreat and 3e-..stroying 3e-..stroying large quantilies of munitions and war materials throughout the entire en-tire salient which they have found it impossible to move, owing to the rapid strides of the allies. Big guns now are throwing shells far behind the lines, searching out the entire countryside, wane allied airplanes are harrying the retreating columns with machine gun fire. The efforts of the Germans to retard re-tard the Franco-American forces were particularly heavy Monday in the region reg-ion of Grisolles and Bezu-St. Germain, respectively northwest and north of Chateau Thierry, where the Americans are "giving battle. On all three sectors the enemy lost further ground, and his forces in the Chateau Thierry pocket were therefore placed in greater great-er jeopardy. : . Realizing the seriousness of his predicament, the German crown prince is said to have sent out distress signals sig-nals to his cousin, Crown Prince Kup-precht Kup-precht of Bavaria, whose men are facing fac-ing the British in France and Flanders. Itupprecht dispatched several divisions of reserves. To offset this Field Marshal Mar-shal Haig immediately detached an equal number of divisions of picked British troops from Picardy and moved them into the battle area southwest south-west of Kheifns. In France and Flanders the British continue to harass the German lines with small attacks and raiding operations, opera-tions, while the Italians are keeping up their pressure against the Aus-trians Aus-trians both in the Italian theatre and in Albania. |