. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. mhouses were burned. Fields of growing grain, ripefor the harvest and dry, the enemy set afire, butsome of it was saved by timely rains that extin-guished the flames. Munitions Abandoned by Germans. Much of the ammunition and guns the enemywas unable to destroy. At Fere en Tardenois morethan $4,000,000 worth of war material was capturedintact, while tanks, automobiles, trucks and clothingwere picked up unharmed in many places. Half a million Germans were in the Marnepocket when the Allied offensive was begun, andfor a time it was t
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. mhouses were burned. Fields of growing grain, ripefor the harvest and dry, the enemy set afire, butsome of it was saved by timely rains that extin-guished the flames. Munitions Abandoned by Germans. Much of the ammunition and guns the enemywas unable to destroy. At Fere en Tardenois morethan $4,000,000 worth of war material was capturedintact, while tanks, automobiles, trucks and clothingwere picked up unharmed in many places. Half a million Germans were in the Marnepocket when the Allied offensive was begun, andfor a time it was thought that a large number ofthese would be unable to escape because of theAllied pressure in front and on both sides, but, injustice to the enemy it must be said that the re-^^ treat was managed with great skill, so that not morethan 35,000 men and 700 guns were captured. The second battle of the Marne had barely cometo an end when another Allied offensive waslaunched in Picardy on the Amiens front, where theGermans had intrenched late in March, after fail-.
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