The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources- American, British, French, German, and others (1919) (14757246416)

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Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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he Ourcq and Marne.Along the Marne the Germans clung tenaciously to theirdefenses, but American thrusts at Jaulgonne widened thebridgehead there, brought in prisoners and forced the enemyto yield further ground on the river bank. Further eastthe French struck repeatedly across the river, meetingheavy resistance, but gaining heights north of Courcelles 262 FOCHS GREAT VICTORIES and winning new ground in the river bend to the west.The Germans, beset on three sides by raking artillery-fire,continued their retreat toward the north. Southwest ofReims, Franco-British forces stormed defenses and drove for-ward for more than half a mile, ejecting Germans from theirhold on the outskirts of the forest of the Mountain of Reims.The German position between the Aisne and the Marnewas becoming more critical every day, almost every hour.Owing to their too rapid advance in May from the Aisnesouthward, they had had no time to construct supplementaryrailroads, and now that the main road from Soissons to
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GERMAN SHELLS LEFT BEHIND IN THEIR RETREAT Chateau-Thierry was in Allied hands, and other roads onwhich they relied for transport were under fire, they werein new difficulties for obtaining food, and ammunition.Retreat became for them a measured and complicated opera-tion and could notbe hurried without becoming disastrous.Ludendorff had sent enormous masses of men into this salientand had stored there vast quantities of material with whichto feed a further offensive south of the Marne and up theMarne valley through Epernay to Chalons. An outlet for itsouth and southeast had been barred by the Franco-American 2G3 ON THE WESTERN FRONT defense, the forward flow interrupted and the whole lowerhalf lumbered up and congested. Ludendorffs problem therefore became one of getting hismen and stores of mat?erial back to the north. He had onlyone good railroad up the main alleyway of retreat—thatrunning from Fismes down to Fere-en-Tardenois, and thenceto Manteuil-Notre-Dame, but, the clearway