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Show ALLIED PLUCK AND SPIRIT ISWIH1G HUNS ARE ON THE RUN, BEING UNABLE TO STAND UP TO THE AMERICANS AND FRENCH. Battering Tactics of Allied Forces Too Much for Crown Prince's Followers, Who Are Desperately Fighting to Prevent Annihilation. With the Army in France. Franco-American Franco-American troops, continuing their pressure pres-sure on the Germans in- retreat from the Marne, have reached and crossed the Oureq river and penetrated the town of Fere-en-Tardenois, one of the great German supply bases for the enemy troops inside the Soissons-Rlieims Soissons-Rlieims salient. Meantime on the center of the allied right wing southwest of Rheiins violent attacks by the French have forced the enemy to give further ground and enabled en-abled the French to capture several towns of strategic value and to draw their front appreciably nearer the high road which runs northeastward from Dormans to Rheims. The Huns are on the run, but on the extreme wings of the gradually decreasing de-creasing pocket near Soissons and Rheims the enemy, heavily-reinforced, is holding tenaciously, realizing that successes there would result in a general gen-eral crumbling of his plans, of defense against the locking up of his entire armies inside the big bag. In addition addi-tion to the large number of troops for reinforcement that have been thrown on these two sectors, the German long range guns from the region north of Soissons and north and northeast of Rheims are keeping both wings of the salient under a heavy enfilading fire. Under the battering tactics of the Americans and Frenchmen the German line on the south has now been driven back more than" twelve miles from the point, south of Chateau Thierry, where the allied troops locked 'the door to Paris against the enemy July IS and themselves became the aggressors it what has turned out one of the great est battles of the war. Our men have been making a num ber of small raids into Germat trenches. |