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DEFENSE OF ALLIED TROOPS(Continued From Pag® 1.)is brass pointed and is highly penetrative.• The Germans used numerous tanks Sn their Champagne attacks.; General Gouraud’a elastic defense tactics of evacuating the first lines, enabled the French artillery to direct a murderous fire upon themassed German columns, which was ono of tho chief reasons for the heavy Gorman losses In the - Champagne fighting.Germans captured by tho Americans call tho offensive the “frieden-sturm** (peace offensive)., When tlie Americans began falling : back towards Conde (south of the Marne) a French general said to the commanding American general that •' it was unnecessary to counter attack immediately and that the Americans might have a rest.Although the troops were tired out by \he strategic retreat, they cheered madly at the order while the French general could not repress an enthusiastic smile. *Cheering crowds gathered about tho railway stations in Paris and lined tho streets as the first train-load of wounded Americans arrived from the .Marne. Paris hospitals had been prepared in advance, tho old case* having been evacuated to make room for the new.Ambulances were backed up to the stations an hour before the arrival of the first hospital train. The crowds surged forward, offering to give aid. The wounded smiled , from their cots as the Parisians brought forward great bunches of fragrant flowers for them.The authorities declare that ample preparations have been made to carei for all the wounded.• ,V. .v V-v,,. : I*'!;•*1 %ti
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Syracuse Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Wed, Jul 17, 1918
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