Show HUNS IN POCKET TO GET OUT RESERVES HOLDING OPEN JAWS OF TRAP SPRUNG BY FOCH TO facilitate TATE MOVEMENT only way for enemy to get out now or to get supplies Is by single line of railway which la Is con scantly under fire washington massed german reserves are holding open the jaws of 0 the trap general foch lias has sprung in tile the algne marne region in si a desperate effort to their lines without the crushing of the forces withdrawing from the chateau thierry and marne sal lents official reports to the war department show the enemy lias has but a 1 I single ingle s railway to get material out of the pocket into which li lie has been forced the situation was graphically explained PI 1 tied wednesday by general march achl chief i ef of staff in a midweek inid week conference with 1 I for the last two days general match maich suid a the employment of probably pio plo bably fifteen divisions of fresh german reserves on oil the sols SOBS bous jaw of the trap lias has practically steadied the line there huns must hold railway lines on the eastern jaw front the enemy lias ins been crushed back more than a mile and a half on it a ten mile front further imperiling impe riling liis his whole position in the salient front from which lie Is endeavoring to extricate ills his troops the railroad running from soissons Sols sons to chateau thierry now is either in our hands or under our fire general march said tile only way avay in it which the enemy can get out now or get supplies over a railroad is ily by the remaining line from Nant cuir on the to Bazo clies elies on the river vesle it was necessary for him it if lie did not intend to be caught absolutely in a pocket to keep troops from advancing and cutting off this road which would put plit him entirely at the mercy of the allied forces guns pounding from three sides some officers here are of the opinion general foch was rushing forward masses of heavy artillery which with airplanes would pound the interior of the german positions lons from three ides they sae the very strength of the german lines now established will make his losses great from the concentrated fire the enemy forces occupy a wedge the center of which is less than 15 miles mile distant front from tile the hard pressing lines of the allies at any point all his communication lines are within gun range once the heavies s get up behind the allied aillem lines lacking railway lines on which to maneuver the enemy probably is making desperate efforts to get his biggest guns away safely the attacking lines are backed by circling railways on which long range weapons on railway mounts can be shuttled back and forth at will it is recalled that the german attack on chateau thierry little more than a week ago was accompanied compa comp nied by the fire of big naval guns shells from fell ten and 15 miles behind the lines |