ALLIES APPROACH NEW GERMAN LINE; French, Advancing Rapidly, Are Now Only Seven Miles from La Fere. THREE BIG TOWNS TAKEN Ham, Guiscard, and Chauny in French Hands;-British Move More Slowly. ALLIES APPROACH NEW GERMAN LINE AVIATORS AID ADVANCE. Allied Airmen Harassing Retreat of Germans and Bombing Lines. GERMAN VIEW OF RETREAT. "New Task Ahead," and So Rearrangement in West was Ordered. SEES MISHAP TO GERMANS. French Critics Think Retreat Can't be Carried Out Successfully.
Date: 20 March 1917
German press comment