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Show j Germans, Fighting With Desperation, Throw Entire New Army Into Field J PARIS, July 26. Capture of the towns of Villemon-toire Villemon-toire and Oulchy-le Chateau is announced by the war office. k. The French took four cannon and many hundred prison- '( ers in is fighting. ' The statement follows : "Yesterday afternoon French troops captured Villemon-toire Villemon-toire after deliberate fighting and captured 200 prisoners as well as twenty machine guns. "Further 'south Oulchy-le-Chateau fell into the hands of the French. The French made progress east of the towns and captured four cannon. "During combats yesterday in the region south of the j Ourcq the French took many hundreds of prisoners." PARIS, July 26. The Germans have reinforced their : right flank of the Soissons-Rheims pocket, .says (La Liberte, with a new army commanded by General von Eben which has been placed between the armies of General von Hutier and General von Boehn. i LONDON, July 26. On all sides of the German salient, the Allies are reported today to be continuing to make progress, pro-gress, except on the heights behind Soissons. The German resistance to the French pressure has been very determined in j ' this latter sector. The advances reported elsewhere are for the most part slight. j On the other side of the salient just to the west of Rheims the Allies lost the town of Mery and Hill 204 to a German counter-attack but retained Vrigny and the greater part of the line thereabouts looking toward Fismes. . The Allies in this sector hold Marfaux, Bouilly, St. Euphraise and Courton wood. ! Between the Ourcq and Chateau Thierry the Franco-American Franco-American line now shows an advance beyond the line of a week ago of from six to eight miles. :i . (By the Associated Press.) Villcmontoire, a little more than five miles south of Soissons, has been taken by the French and Americans whllo further south they have captured Oulchy-le-Chateau and swept on east of tho town. Between the Ourcq and the Marne ! tho Americanc are pressing hard against the enemy's lines and have taken the southern half of La Fere forest, which brings them up to about four miles directly south of the vital town of Fere-en-Tardenois, the center of the roads leading back out of th'e Marne salient and through which the German forces along the southwestern sectorc of the line must retreat. Rls forest, further southeast toward the Marne, is also being emptied of the Germans. Buzancy Important Point. Vlllemontoire is on the Soissons-' Soissons-' Chateau Thierry road. It Is southwest of Buzancy, which has been reported : unofficially to have been taken by the I allies. Its capture marks a new stp L in the process of closing the mouth of J! the bag in which the Germans arc !f struggling. Tho fall of Oulchy-le-Chateau takes from the Germans the pivot, upon I which their retirement further north Si nac been swinging. Its loss to the ' enemy, who defended it sternly, is a I cerious blow. In their advance eact-I eact-I u?rt tnIs town tne allies are near I Hill 150 which Is the dominating I height in that region and which would I Q've tho allies an observation point I over long reaches of the Ourcq. I i . J"ere i3 nothing known as to Brlt- 'sh progress on the lino from Gueux I and Mery Premecy, west of Rheims. I The rapid advance of the British there I Indicates that their progress should continue. 5 AThe Gel"man retirement is quite evi- .I1 on the western side of the Marne 1 faIlc.rrt but southwest of Rheims noth-I noth-I 3 . ,iL.s been reported as to an enemy 1 J withdrawal. I t,G.rman attcks near Meteren, in t 1 1 -ryo sal,entf and near Hebuterne, , i north of Albert, are reported from It : London. Both enemy onslaughts were 3 repulsed. ri 14 announced officially from Lon-1 Lon-1 .n that Japan has agreed to the Am-I Am-I JCan Proposal to assist the Czccho-I Czccho-I Slovak armies In Siberia. Germans Launch Heavy Attack. LONDON, July 26. The Germans this morning launched a local attack against the positions recently taken by the British in the Moteren sector of tho Flanders' front. The war office an- J nounces that the vcero repulsed after i sharp fighting. Last night the Gormans delivered an attack upon the new British .positions in the Hebuterne sector on tho front between Albert and Arras. The enemy was driven off with severe losses, leaving prisoners in the hands of the British. Tho official statement reads: "Yesterday evening tho enemy at- I tacked our new positions in the Hcbu-1 terne sector under cover of a heavy barrage. His troops were driven off with severe loss leaving thirty prisoners prison-ers in our hands. "Early this morning a strong local attack was launched by the enemy against tho line recently gained by us at Meteren. This attack was also ro-pulsed ro-pulsed after sharp fighting. "During the night a party of our troops rushed a hostile machine gun nest in the Merris sector. "Hostile artillery has bien active in the Sommo valley and in tho neighborhood neigh-borhood of Boyelles." Austrians Would Make Peace AMSTERDAM, July 25. Austrian Soclal-Domocrats have introduced an interpellation In the Austrian lower house 'asking the government to negotiate ne-gotiate with Germany to jointly fix war aims and peace terms, according toa Vienna dispatch to tho NIeuwe Rotterdanische Courant. They assert ,ihat the government does not act 'sharply enough against the military paTtyDT- Germany. , |