Show x r 1 j f.- f. 3 J I t j I r r r i ir r YANKS AND CAPTURE i c- c PRISONERS DRIVE BY Br J. 1 FOCH PUTS FOE TO FLIGHT PARIS July The official midnight shows vs the t e French and Americans have advanced Six miles on the northern end of their attack as far as Chaudun and the hills dominating Soissons from the southwest Two miles in the center east of Villers Between Bet one and two miles on their right flank resting on the Mare arne 4 j. j 1 1 n s y s Associated ted Press TILE llIE A NAR ARMY lY IN PRANCE FRANCE July The American can troops had carried WIlI I all before all before them thel J by late in in the offs afternoon and had proceeded so fast that was cavalry thrown into the action All An the American headquarters staff tonight were well veIl inside the territory which the Germans held this morning r rhe 1 Ile allies have reached roughly the line of Belleu ps Chour Villers Relon Chaudun and the heights dom n I Soissons 1 French cavalry has crossed beyond be fond the Chateau Soissons-Chateau Thierry Thien r ro road to openings made by the Franco American forces The rhe greatest progress made up to latest reports rep s was about al oui ten kilometers or a little littleover over six Sl les After I passing O the third thin 1 set for the operations of the morning the Americans f fIn In in operation co-operation with the French south of Soissons launched n a second powerful attack at t noon nOOD Showing the effect of splendid training the American troops went forward swiftly and fought with fury Nothing seemed to stop them especially in the region of Soissons and t to the south of that city Light and heavy pieces were moved 1 up as the troops advanced and soon after each eachl barrage ended shells from the can guns were deluging the enemy's rear areas laying havoc with his forces whether w those in retreat or reserves endeavoring to come up FRENCH CA VA RY DASHES FO FORWARD W ARD It was open warfare with all the attending excitement and through the gaps made hy by r the heavy a guns all and infantry the French l cavalry c dashed l heating eating eating down those in their path losses were inflicted at all points on the enemy The tanks did all hll that was WH expected of them The great lumbering engines rolled along o in front of the infantry driving a the Germans before hem with of bullets and clearing away many obstructions that lead had escaped escaped the artil- artil lery Icly The enemy early began to bring up up 1 strong a at reinforcements Fresh troops l have ave appeared at t various points and a heavy counterattack will probably have haye to be withstood On n the line south of Soissons the American troops carried all their objectives in the second sec sec- ond nd attack with the s une dash as the first even I IThe proceeding g further than had been expected The enemy was routed and for the most part fled before the American advance abandoning abandon abandon- ing l 1 g even een light gUllS and ammunition Only here and there along the line was strong resistance offered f and at these points points the Germans were attacked with rifle and bayonet before which they hey retreated steadily L u. u l 4 1 tl 4 g 1 th 11 n th e c 0 nt f t th l le Ch a. a t n ll I So o far has IH the U lt IU la Io enemy au J VA u. u U Thierry flue r is considered consid led to be in a somewhat hat dangerous one position where he will have to act quickly The rhe lean troops I including those returning bandaged ba are rire in high ligh spirits tt the 1 Am l- l icons ieans have received ived warm expressions expressions of thanks front the Fre French wh IMMENSE WAR STORES TAKEN B By Associated ted Press Mil 11 I I 1 1 I lI IE IE A RICAN ICAN IN FRANCE Jill luly The rhe American Anler can troops up to oan J just south of soils had captured prisoners Fifty cannon had been counted and thousands thou sall sands ls of guns t Northwest of Chateau rl hiel r the ille Americans captured large numbers of prisoners andall and of and and stores an all equally I quantity I Ic ill in the of stores were immense ill find and included some the ehe c 1 c south 1 of Soissons ons way airplanes s w which the ere m was unable to remove so swiftly did the g troops sweep through l lallY 1 prisoners an and guns retrain to h ho counted LETa GO CRY OF FIGHTING Y YANKS I By Universal Service S r J lulu uly Leas Lc to o By b and ao gic word was passed along a the American lines be be- tween the file Aisne find tits the just as the first peep of sun ushered in the fourteen hundred and fiftieth day clay of the wag war war-Foeh's olles day at last d bayonets fixed thousands after thousands of fighting men O Over Or r the I parapets leapt Continued on Page Paie YANKS AND ADVANCE I SIX MILES AGAINST GERMANS I Continued From Irom Page Pase 1 Americans and French Out across a lOSs No Mans fans s 's Land the they dashed five Twenty miles of oi front fron I that had heen thought asleep w was wa s suddenly alive alivo ablaze swarming sw with picturesquely mingled 1 khaki and 1 horizon bine The Tue Yanks and lIld the were going Now and No and not until hiO now V. V the the guns tuned ill up A myriad French and American shells whistled o overhead bidding r godspeed to tile tho storming lads I As the first shower of hot metal nieta foil fell upon tile the Gorman support and reserve lesen positions the hi C foes foe's first filst lines lilIes were Werl dread already taken On stormed d tho Yu Yanks and one one three till five miles and ahll nd on Oil rp Tonight 1 as this tills is IS sent i they are still going mId anti going goin hard The rhe whole German between SOissons un and Chateau It 1 Thierry on the Marne is iR shaking And the danger to the Germans lies in iii the fact that this S front is their right flank flunk If it caves eaves in all their fOlt s must lI get back hack beyond the Aisne- Aisne must get of k-of- hack in a l hurry iii in a 1 rout or fIr their encirclement and capture is IS inevitable I SOISSONS EXPECTED TO BE TAKEN Soissons the great Aisne rail head which fell to the Germans in their theil May drive I ij h tonight juicier bombardment French and American shells hells by l' l French lench and American troops arc bIF C within a mile of 01 the tIle city Its fall fail may be ue announced any moment Our reserves are taking part pari in iii the battle the Berlin war office says in its report fo tc I night after admitting that some sonic ground was captured by the French I Tt It is a curious announcement tl this is one ab about tit the tile reserves i taking part in inthe the battle hattle Gob Ger German I man war officers are aie not in In the habit of trumpeting such things out into the world Is s it i a camouflaged of despair frantic to the a plea cry troops engaged Hold out ont reserves are aie com COil 1 ing to help you or balm for the tile people at home who see a gigantic drive suddenly tunic into a desperate despera te German defensive e 7 Also Berlin deliberately omits mention of the tile Americans in this first great gleat allied ol of e of the tile year BATTLE RAGES IN GREAT TRIANGLE Tonight one of the tile greatest battles of the whole war rages in ill the tile huge triangle triangle Sob Sois- Sois 5 sous Rheims Thierry Violent fighting also is going on to the east east- of Rheims But Bu it I the only battle developments le up HP to early tonight were The llie Germans in iii their new arne Marne drive while having be been n beaten decisive decisively y by the Americans on the Manic 1 and Franco American by troops on Oil both sides of ot we were 0 making slow hut but steady stead progress between the Marne anie and southwest of the cathedral ti city They had 1181 passed the Nanteuil line and taken Pourcy at the edge of the Rhe Rheims moun 1 tain tam Already the they were beginning to nibble away at the west western rn slopes of that strategic ba bas bas- 3 tion IRli inis seemed perilously near its doom To send reser reserves Tes to the Italian Franco Rheims LS arul army is a difficult an almost impossible thing in view of the encircling up line-up of tile the German GenTIan forces So decided Foeh-decided to strike at the tile vulnerable Gel German llan front the tile flank between Soissons and arid Chateau Thierry Thiern p FRENCH WITHIN MILE OF or SOISSONS L T July IS French French troops troop have gained the ravine inc at the River Crisc Crise running into Soissons on a u five five- fivemile mile front down own to the cast east of Buzancy which means a maximum advance athance at nt this point of five fire miles accordI accord accord- ing i ng to the tIle news received d in London tonight The Americans operating in the region west of Soissons the dispatch adds have taken four thousand prisoners prison prison- ers thirty guns and much other material which has hns not yet been estimated South of on the heights north of the River valley the hastily counterattacked and the thc situation at nt that point still is obscure ALLIED STRENGTH UNDERESTIMATED UND kt It was on that front fr t that the tile Germans made th their ir first attack on the Americans just before opening the Champagne Mama drive That feint was designed incidentally to feel out the str strength of the thc American lines Jines I General Ludendorf fives fives' well aware that if things went wrong in the drive danger of disaster lurked in m n that direction provided direction provided the thc French and Americans Amer Amer- j eans had sufficient forces there Once again the Germans made their pet mistake that of underestimating underestimating- their opponents' opponents strength There was Avas not the slightest idea in the heads beads of the German commanders corn com manders that the thc Americans Americans the the h handful of green gi-een would toul would or could make male things uncomfortable on this vital front The penalty of Prussian Prussian sian cock was that when those green lads from across the sea an and their French comrades es in arms did lid strike the thc wallop caught the arrogant arrogant arro arro- gant foe when he lie wasn't looking and ancl sent him staggering staggering- eastwards It is a unique battle this one that is being fought throughout the night with no end in sight until a n real is reached In the center of the blood bloody panorama lies what is left to Frances France's shell- shell battered Cathe Cathedral ral cit city militarily of no value but to French morale what I Venice is to Italy I While the new combat raged the thc II I on German flank the kaisers kaiser's I army southwest of Rheims was closing in upon their adversary ersary from the south getting nearer and nearer the one lone rail that feeds the Rheims defenders I the line lino to I pernay I I j II I I I r I I SOISSONS HILLS DOMINATED But forty-five forty miles to the northwest of the cit of city real no nora morn value whatever er but of tremendous military value Soissons alue Soissons is within th tJ grasp of the victorious Franco American an troops The Tue hills that dominate Soissons arc in their han hands s. s Thus the curious po possibility looms of hands I up Ill Rheims falling falling- into Germar almost at the same moment when the French and Americans take Soissons Both incidentally lie on the tile Paris Verdun rail The fall of into German hands will vill cause tears teai-s and heartache i it j t will make Frenchmen clench their fists in redoubled wrath in Franco American hands will be a spear in the German side will deprive them of a n base indispensable for I holding the vast ast area overrun o by b- them in their t May drive The unique feature of the battle now is raging the number of ol fronts involved and the fact that both opposing armies armie are arc simultaneously o on n the aggressive and defensive COUNTERATTACK COMES AS SURPRISE T Ii LONDON ONDON July 18 The The great American counterattack in the thc French an and I I h ling has troops are arc participating between the Aisne an and the Manic Marns in succeeded extremely well according according- to the thc latest ad advices received here lier t tonight oni ht and the situation for many reasons is considered i extremely prom- prom Owing to the fact that here there was no artillery preparation the action I was a complete surprise f r the boche hoche and the enemy artillery reaction was vcr very ery weak On the other hand baud the French c work was as cx- cx ly effective Enemy aviators a entered into the action and I attempted t the thc advance using usino their machine guns at a low Jow altitude Notwithstanding this the counterattack attack was is noteworthy for the rc rca rea s son on that the French offensive e accomplished a n great great- rent deal more than was wa front achieved ed by the Gl German drive r re e on both sides siles of The flie len length th of the French over which an advance was made was practically tho the same and th the and Americans working together tog advanced nel in six hours virtually i tho the distance covered o by the Germans in clays days JUNCTION POINTS PO ARE UNDER FIRE So fai n as is known at nt present nt the junction line between Soissons and Le La Chateau and also the the- on lin between Soissons and Fismes are under direct observation and fire from the Hie new now French positions on the Crise Crisc ravine ine These two are arc the thc only lines hues by lW winch w-lichi the tho Germans in fn this salient between en Soissons and antI can enn be supplied It is possible however that the Germans mn may have succeeded in other connecting LI up their line hiti lines in another another an- an way The French counter is h regarded hero here a as one oe of tho tha most roost brilliant pieces of work in the tile war var and it i is believed ed that the results i will prove provo extremely valuable as ns the French have hat obtained most important strategic ic positions In London the lie view is held that the tho advance has s put an end to the German offensive for the lie and that present be considered d can nn com corn safe The fheo French have hae reached all then their first O objectives cs II SOU South I of the Marne larne much local ii fighting is reported i The fhe French have lost tome borne but are arc still within effective e range rang of the lie German bridges across the river livel though it is they Ulcy may JUay have ha lost direct observation Further to the east the lie allies loire have regained in ground a n goo good many sectors sector especially in in the the IllA se sector OP or w west vest n st of Massiges |