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J GERMANS RETREAT STARS STAS r I AND STRIPES PL FLY y ABOVE NE L y i 1 CAPTURED VILLAGE 1 f Whole Tho c Plan of Campaign 1 l 11 of Is Smashed b by Great Allied CounterAttack Counter Counter- Attack hall Many Towns Taken By Associated Press TD p ARIS AllIS July J uly 28 French French advanced guards have hn reached the th-c north bank of the Our q river and allied troops have entered le En re the thc great German supply base which lies in the thc middle of ofIe ore Ie AisI Marne Aisne-Marne sector The fh announcement of the thc war office toni tonight ht adds that the thc village c- c cof of Anthenay and Olizy Olizy Et Et on the east flank flunk lying r to the thc southwest so S cst of Rheims have been oven occupied pied The text of the thc statement reads rea s North of the thc Marne l we have hn continued our onward march in the thc region f of the Notwithstanding the resistance of the of enemy who employed every cry effort to check ou our passage c of the river Vc w we succeeded in throwing advanced elements Clements on the north bank We eup Jp into into F Perc En rc nois Northeast Northeast of the forest of Ris his we recaptured cr On On the right our troops have occupied Anthenay an and Et Vio Olizy Vio Et lathe laine and have ha approached appreciably the line of the road from 3 to Dormans In Champagne two enemy attempts in the region south of the Monts were repulsed BRITISH FRONT JUBILANT OVER NEWS NE' By Universal Uni Service At the British Bri ish gent Front 1 July 28 The rhe The Germans are arc reported to lo be he retreating retreating re re- treating over oyer a wide flO front t on the thc German right side of the Sois Rheims-Sois- sons sector They arc are by hy allied cavalry cn There is is unbounded joy on the whole Brit British sh front nt today du due to the news of the fresh Franco American successes j I The enemy is evacuating c many villages and destroying bridges and iua- iua tua- tua The British are arc harassing the enemy along e their front with artillery much gas as bein being used Scattered prisoners and machine machin guns guns have been heen taken in the last t twenty four hour I Military exp experts pr predict d ct an early withdrawal by hy the Germans to theline theline the theline I line of the river ri Vesle straightening the thc line from line from Rheims to Soissons PARIS WAR OFFICES OFFICE'S DAY REPORT Paris Tuly July 28 In 28 In their pursuit of the retreating Germans north of the river Marne French troops have reached cd the south bank of the river it was announced today tOlby by b the French war office In the Champagne a number r of German attacks were repulsed by the French f 1 The text of the statement reads s II In the course of the thc ni night ht the French French continued their progress north of the Marne Our elements have ha reached the south hank bank of the river rhel On On our right we approached the lie Dormans Rheims hi high h. h road load In I In the Champa Champagne Champane ne we lye repulsed several e German attacks attack on Ull our new P pos south of the thc Mont lont Sans SaIl Nom Now Northeast of St. St Hilaire we have completely maintained our lines n nIn In a n supplementary official statement issued this afternoon the Fr Fl wa war office says Since tI the a O opening of the artillery bombardment or on 1 nl IS S th the lay I of the French counter offensive c on t the he front between the Aisne and t the he I I Marne our oar tanks have ha taken a glorious part in the thc battle After piercing the enemy lines line and enabling the thc infantry to enter the breach hoy I have not ceased to lo accompany or 01 precede the troops Tanks Lead Way Through Lines I Throughout the battle the tanks have ha given proof of their ability to maneuver er and of their incomparable audacity l The crews drove c t the he tanks into the hottest parts Darts of the battle and recoiled from no obstacles Tile They attacked the centers of resistance and the batteries of the enemy un under er terrific terrific ter- ter ter fire from machine guns uns and special German cannon carmon r Their gallantry attained th the greatest results Each Euch tank lank accounted for fifteen or t twenty German machine guns Some of the tanks charged the thc out of action and the the German batteries putting putting- runners gunners insuring insuring- capture of the cannon and ancl material lI The The losses sustained by liv h the Germans as a result of the tile onslaught t mt of nf the tile kf til f were Hrc very cry high according l ordin to the thc rep reports of pris prisoners prisoner ncr Fru From 1 July 18 to tu July J 23 3 th the tanks took tool part e cr every da tiny day in 1 the Clue hc attack Most lost of or them wel were e ir it action t twice ice and some returned to the f fight ht four or five times inthe in inthe the same day lay Some tank companies fought for three full lays days day Drivers operated their tanks for thirty hours in the tin two day period of July lul IS H 1 I Enemy 13 r l Retreat GrOYS rows Hourly More ore Hasty as He Tie Hurries 5 to Reach N New ey Defense Line Between Oise 1 and IC Paris July 28 Franco American fo forces ces have captured the city of Fere en i s the nerve center of the German crown cro princes prince's army in the Marne Aisne-Marne pocket By Universal Service P PARIS ARIS July Tuly 28 Old 28 Old Glory flutters tonight from t tic the le city hall of Fere Fere-en- Fere en- en side by side with Frances France's tricolor The spinal column of the thc German rown frown princes prince's army has been ripped wide open The city that formed the nerve center of his million half bottled bottled- up un fighting g men was stormed b by soldiers of France and America just as night I was settling town sown upon the Marne Aisne-Marne Aisne battlefield closing the eleventh day p. p o 9 of Fochs Foch's o hs h's great The lime crown croon princes prince's told hold upon the Marne i is is a m memory mory French and American American American Amer Amer- ican ican troops are across the From Fere en n the are fleeing g northeastwards back to the esle and Aisne Through h r the f funnel mcl- mcl formed by the road and Ardre their southeastern army I must retreat with record speed speed before before Pocks Foch's Fere en arm army reaches Fismes l and closes the trap Already the rail mil pivot of this German southeastern army arm Ville Tar en Tar en-Tar- is denois-is is half Its fall is a n matter of hours The shadow of a gigantic Sedan no longer han hangs s over o the whole German German Ger Ger- I man arm army below the Aisne It is on its heels Winged by hy the joy of tri tri- triumph it threatens to outrun the beaten fa fagged and anti dispirited legions of the I kaisers kaiser's heir n I Victory Greatest Yanks Have Known It Jt was the smashing ictor victory that crowned this bloody Sabbath It is is' is the greatest Americas America's troops have c yet achieved And Ami the possibilities possibilities' are are- unlimited perhaps 9 perhaps it is to be a storm of peace after all but Yankees and not the Germans arc are doing the storming This very date is an omen umen Four years rears ago Austria declared war upon upon- Serbia Serbin and set the world ablaze a France is wild with joy Gay Paris is gay once more There will be no going to bed in this town to tonight and anil in n the offices had the Only i in n the war office buildings s newspaper fall of cn been heen looked up as certain All through the lust last twenty four hours the Franco American forces had been pressing pressing- on in the advance ad that began with the German abandonment of the Marne front early carly yesterday The was cros crossed ed early carly th this s morning mornin on both sides of the city Towns within two miles of it hall had been taken by V storm Frank dispatches dispatches dispatches dis dis- patches hinted at important news the night e might have e to tell What is now going on is an operation as old as war itself only it rarely is accomplished in this way Foch with his solid soliel front from Soissons down downto to Fere en and thence to the south of en Ville-en-Tardenois is shepherding shepherding shepherding shep shep- herding the whole German army northward rolling up its ri right ht and threatening threat threat- enin clung ening to break brenk through any moment in its left and pressing its center further and further into the thc e narrowing ever in funnel of fate Speed superhuman speed alone can cnn save the crown princes prince's army from debacle r A few laborious clog clogged cd roads only remain to t them em for toed their retreat and an these thes ore are ablaze continuously bathed in allied fire And the crown princes prince's troops 1 arc tired tr t terribly tired and hungry Strain Upon Enemy Nears Breaking Point low How Iou long can they the stand the strain 9 Upon that question depends- depends the thee maYn magnitude of ur e the disaster Dashing behind them in relentless pursuit are endless less lines Jines es of khaki American cavalry ca artillery infantry no infantry no cud end of ur these devil il dugs dogs r rand s who the Germans hind had been told were only cannon fodder and un very cry little of ur that Mixed with the khaki is the horizon n blue of thousands upon thousands s of soldiers soldiers of the F France Ulce that the Germans had hail been een told was bled I white T and could ne never again take the offensive Far F r back of the tho battle hattle zone one in the safe recesses ses of some trench french chateau what Why did he be send sits the crown prince the f future emperor doing emperor doing into this deathtrap i Why did dul he tell us to hold out to the i lust last I us Such must inevitably inc be the questions n which all nIl minds mauls will ask and with them is linked the memory of Verdun Gloom superstition nagging doubt the undertakers of beaten armies arc uro doing to lo the soul what retreat does to the nerves and hunger to the stomach I One of their generals they lost in the last few days days' n s fight light was named for unafraid J I Un t German Another omen umen T un HUN MENACE TO RHEIMS REMOVED t H f lS 1 J I Service Ser B By Universal retreat i is growing hourly in haste and July 28 The The German r PARIS PAnS Franco American 1 ranee t cm cavalry airy is 15 crossing g the time Fere en is is probably n ly rendered noh un no- untenable line through h pro The h 1 he e German through h that important t the road d running raking ro ell d arc arc- tenable A Allied Ili guns Ims guns been heen removed remO menace to Rheims has intersection All German here predict a further German retirement between the Military experts Oise nail and the Aisne below helow Soissons resistance appears to have saved aved most of their mobile ma material The fhe German the hands of the lie into of shells are falling pursuers but huge hint heaps ill in the allied advance playing an important part in tanks are arc New Ne French paid frightful frig price in lives cs to tu save mat material rial The Germans have paid a Continued on Page Pago 2 t I FOCH HURLS FOE ACROSS Continued from Pac 1 L entire French press records Foch's Fochs victory ns as smashing the whole campaign n of the German high command All All the papers quote the kaisers kaiser's message to his troops on July Juh 15 when he lie mounted a n tower lower to watch his legions storm pence Americans Saluted by Parisian Presse Press 4 i ir r e c c en enthusiastically salute the young American troops says say's Lc Lo Jour 1 Jour Jour- mil nul Their valor is inspiring n all Germany with wilh a form formidable le fear The German press is making fr frantic l tic efforts to explain the retreat but ut warnings s of Americas America's IS fighting fighting- strength are arc becoming more and more frank and frequent One Munich paper for instance calls it stupid to underestimate A j Amor-j ica's power German papers are admitting the tile heavy y losses suffered In in n the ciu current battle attle Amon Among those lost the they reveal rc is General and Lieutenant von on son of the former German food dictator An army order found d on a n dead German officer says say I The rue bank hank of the must he be held at all nil cost Possession of I Ithe the heights is most important BIG HIGH II CO COMMAND DIAN I The German hold on the Manic fl was broken en when a German division was seized with panic in the face of French and American troops north of gonne Americans led the tho pursuit ENEMY LOSSES IN RETREAT TERRIBLE I By Associated Press r With the French Armies on the Manic Marne Front July Allied S Allied patrols have hae reached the southern bank of the r river er This morning was ex extremely extremely ex- ex quiet aln along the center of the salient where the Germans were not offering great opposition On both wings wing activity prevails The Flie has massed heavy henY guns gUllS to the north of Soissons on the heights around Juvigny Ju i n and Chai Chavigny n whence thc they the bombard with an nn enfilading fire th the western wing as far south as Le Lc Notwithstanding this bombardment the allies in the I I Le Lc region region arc making some progress s although h they arc faced by hW the Germans German best division and the concentrated fire of machine guns gnus I I I On the eastern win wing ring the allies gradually are arc obtaining command of the whole road leading lending from Dormans to On this side the Germans ha have assembled artillery in the neighborhood of St. St Thierry northwest of These guns cover the German left flank and consequently make the progress slower for the allies I I Fleeing Foe Harried by Allies I IThe Ilie The lie retreat of the crown princes forces along the the whole Manic Marne front I I has reached a more mure precipitate phase At some places the Germans have i fallen back for fot a n distance of several miles French nn and l American an troops I Iare j are harrying the retiring forces in the center while French and British j troops arc hammering at nt both hoth flanks I J anti and tanks in considerable numbers Cavalry have ha succeeded in getting I I in among CHuong the retiring Germans while airplanes are arc bombarding their col col- col- col The Ihie incessant smashing blows left the enem enemy nothing nothing- to do but to tu retreat re re- treat trent or die Even Een their su sudden den retirement has hns not relieved the tim constant harr harrying ing In addition to tn the slashing of cavalry cavary and the pounding of the tanks the lives of tile the German rear real guards u are arc being made malIc precarious by y infantry patrols Ever since the commencement of the German retreat tank crews have been breaking up lip the enemy front line and preparing the way vay for in in- in fantry Tanks Take Heavy Toll Toil of Lives Some have attacked enemy batteries an and killed nil all the gunners thus permitting infantry to capture the positions The losses caused b by bv the tanks have ha been terrible The rue lin line where tim the German withdrawal has its greatest t depth is northeast of Chateau Thierry The he depth fl from m that point gradually becomes becomes be be- I be-I 1 comes narrower until it is quite small on nearing nearing- the eastern pivot phot on ott the thc front southwest of Both here her and around Soissons the other uther pivot pi I the ground is suited for defense A At t these two points the Germans have ha concentrated artillery and infantry knowing that if a breach be made mude a n great reat majority of the Germans in ill the pocket must he be sacrificed I On the banks bunks of the thc Marne south of the tile center of the salient not a single sin situ gle German remains Their sudden retreat lucre here was brought a about out h by the constant pressure of the thc French Americans anti and British Allied troops have o kept constantly on the heels of the tile enem enemy and some sume patrols have hac advanced consi considerably h 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