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Identifier: literarydigesthi05hals (find matches)
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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ing around the train and firing machine-gun bullets into the windows while a companion drop[ed bombs on train and track. When the train stopped passengers swarmed out and scampered into the woods like rabbits.^^ 23 Cable dispatch from Walter Duranty to The Times (New York).2* Cable dispatch from Gen. Sir Frederick D, Maurice to The Times (NewYork). 25 Cable dispatch from Perry Robinson to The Sun (New York). 306 FOCHS GREAT VICTORIES Haig's battle was another proof of the immense change that had come over the aspect of the war as a result of Retains blow against the German right flank in the Marne salient. Foch could now make the Germans dance to his piping. Having the initiative, the German reserves would have to run to meet his blow whenever Foch decided to strike. Within three days a blow had dislocated more than a hundred miles of German front. The entire German line from Arrasto Reims was endangered. The impetus of the French attack was still almost as great as ever, with advances on a twenty-five mile front at points reaching two and a half miles. Through a broken, wooded region, Hutier was making a somewhat hurried and disordered retreat. Chaulnes was in the hands of Canadians and Australians. North of the Somme, Americans and British had seized Etinehem and heights between there and Dernancourt. An envelopment of the enemy once hoped for, was now improbable, since the former Montdidier salient had been wiped out and the front had only a slight curve. Allied observers in airplanes reported long streams of troops and transports still rushing eastward, great columns crossing the Somme by bridges badly damaged by Allied bombers. Eastward past Peronne they moved, many without arms, apparently having discarded weapons. Among them were wounded men staggering along on foot. Both large tanks and whippets had performed great services at a small cost to themselves. In one town, five ponderous monsters rolled directly i

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