Marne Splient Disappears.
FALSE STRATEGY DEFEAT. ROADS CHOKED NORTH OF - THE VESEE. Received this day, 10.45 a.m. London, August 5. Correspondents on the Franco American front emphasise the im portance •of the fact that the Marne salient lias disappeared.# German leadership during the retreat was seen at_ its best. The troops showed no sign, of broken spirit. False strategy frdm the outset • involved the defeat. Villages between the Vesle and the Aisne are still aflame and the district reelcs with smoke and the acrid stencil of explosives where the enemy destroyed his dumps. _ . The retirement steadily contm ues, the Allied cavalry meeting only rearguard screens. The roads northward of the Yesle are choked with transport waggons which are progressing slowly owing to the lfilaire Belloc, writing to the Daily News, says the two great factors which dominate the situ ation are: Firstly;, the Allies re covery of the initiative on July 18, and the steady mechanical m crease of Allied numbers.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 6 August 1918, Page 3
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