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INTERESTING AND PERTINENT TOPICS OF THE DAY LATEST DEVELOPMENTS OF GREAT WAR According to Associated Press dispatches the entire German position within the Marnc salient is such that it may fall at any instant in event of some sharp movement by the allies affecting a vital point pointIt It is for tills reason that the German commanders have ordered their men to hold on at all costs while a defensive position is prepared upon which the German armies can fall back backDay Day after day the allies now the French now the Americans and now the British are encroach ¬ ing uiioii the triangular salient at some places making deep dents in the enemy positions and at others progressing more slowly slowlyEvery Every line of communication within the German salient is under bombardment night and day either from the allied artillery or airplanes It is only with the greatest difficulty and with heavy sacri ¬ fices that the enemy is able to hold on within this area All the while his men are suffering terrible privations owing to the uncertainty of obtaining supplies supplieslu lu consequence of the allies commanding virtually every road and every path the fatigued German units cannot be relieved even when they are sorely tried triedThe The Germans have reenforced their right flank in the SoissonsRlieinis yocket says the French organ La Liberte with a new army commanded by Gen ¬ eral von Ebon It has been placed between the armies of General vou Huticr and General von Boehm BoehmCapture Capture of the towns of Villcmontoire and Oulchy leChateau is announced by the French war office The French took four camion and many hundred prisoners in this fighting fightingBetween Between the Ourcq and the Marnc the Americans are pressing hard against the enemys lines and have taken the southern half of La Fere forest which brings them up to about four miles directly south of the vital town of FerecnTardcnois the center of the roads leading back out of the Marue salient and through which the German forces along the southwestern sectors of the line must retreat Ris forest farther southeast toward the Manic is also being emptied of the Germans
