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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
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snotable about the advance was that it had followed closelythe German tactics of driving in a narrow wedge and thenflattening the wedge out at its apex. It pointed southwestand so directly threatened a break through in the rear ofthe fast narrowing German salient toward Montdidier.The third great salient which the Germans had created bytheir unexpected success was threatened with collapse. Justas Joffre in September, 1914, and Foch in July, 1918, drove 298 FOCHS GREAT VICTORIES the Germans north from the Marne by unloosing a threatagainst their right wing along the Ourcq, so there was nowdeveloping against the German right a threat whose effectsmight reach far north of the Aisne. Seventeen thousandprisoners and between 200 and 300 cannon were captured. Unofficial reports said that cavalry had reached the neigh-borhood of Chaulnes, which was nearly thirteen miles beyondthe old line. Cavalry and fast tanks operated miles in frontof advancing infantry, creating havoc among the retreating
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FRENCH OFFICIAL PHOTO. ALL THAT IS LEFT OF CHAULNES Germans, cutting up trains, killing thousands and takingmany prisoners. Clouds of airmen rained bombs on convoysuntil many roads became impassable from the wreckage.Other airmen blew up bridges over the Somme, across whichthe enemy was trying to flee. The Germans destroyed greatpiles of shells and abandoned stores of materials. Confess-ing weakness, they withdrew in Flanders, on the southwest-ern side of the Lys salient, 2,000 yards on a six-mile front.North of Kemmel Hill the British advanced on a 2,000-yardfront. Americans—the Twenty-seventh Division, and per- 299 ON THE WESTERN FRONT haps the Thirtieth—brigaded with the British, were partici-pating in this offensive. On August 8 sixty-five German air-planes were destroyed by British aviators or driven downout of control, and fifty British machines were missing—theBritish losses being due chiefly to fire from the ground. The Allies soon passed the north-and-south railroad com

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