Show DAYS DAY'S REVIEW SHOWS ALLIES ARE VICTORS I 1 Pr A MEXICAN troops fighting north of tho the river in the Rheims salient havo have enlarged their brilliant victory of or Monday Monda at Sergy where they cut to pieces divisions of Germanys Germany's picked troops and took and held the village against counter counter- attacks Notwithstanding continued heavy op opposition opposition op- op position by guns machine guns and amI large numbers of ot the enemy soldiers from irom the middle western and eastern states drove their line Une northward from tram Sergy Sers Tuesday for a distance of about two miles and were resting at night on the slopes approaching tho the woods beyond beyond be be- yond ond the town of ot Where they stood at lt tho the last accounts the Americans Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- cans formed the apex of the long line lino running across the salient While the thc bitter fighting rightinG was in progress between the Americans and Germans GermanD the French troops on both sides of ot the fighting front also moved mo forward for tor goodly gains northeast of or on sere and east cast of or Sergy In the forest tho the Germans are holding strong positions from which thc they are shelling but thus tl cly the menacing allied line before them Crack Troops Troop Beaten n. n Prussian guards and Bavarians were In n the thick of or tho the fighting throughout through through- out Tue Tuesday da but again the they were outmaneuvered out- out maneuvered and outfought by br the Americans and again suffered heavy casualties The Germans apparently are on the eve ovo of attempting to end their retreat from the Sol Soissons Soissons-Rheims sons salient and turning and offering frontal battle In force orce to the entente allied armies Tho The da day of oC rear-guard rear actions seems drawing to a close Violent counteroffensive counter counter- offensive ve measures against their antagonists an an- already arc are in progress b by bythe ho tho Germans over most of at the battle front fron t Further gains have been made b by tho the allies only after tho the bitterest fighting Standing firmly and giving ground round only under absolute necessity tho the al allied allied al- al lied troops everywhere have exacted a huge toll Particularly heavy has been the fighting in the tho center of or the salient and on the tho r right and left anchor points right of or the sal salient ent resting resting- respectively southwest south of at of Rheims and anel south Routh of ot Sols Sols- sons It is still on the two anchor points that the Germans are arc keeping a a. most watchful eye ec fearful that the al allied allied al al- lied troops may yet et press back the line and threaten ten tho the armies of tho the German crown prince with the pincer maneuver for the Germans are not yet far enough out of ot the pocket to have passed the Hie danger danse Australians Take M In th the tho center of oC the pocket north of ot the river the Germans In a counterattack counterattack coun coun- drove the tho Americans out of but this slight gain was more than overcome later b by the penetration of the Americans northward from Ser Ser- g gy lying on the west side of the pocket northwest of at Fere-en- Fere also was taken b by the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans but later the French and American Ameri Ameri- can recaptured it and with Grand Rosoy Rosoy Rosoy Ro- Ro soy In their possession thc they still hold vantage points for a small turning movement mO toward Fere Fore which if It successful HUC- HUC would give them a good number number number num num- ber of ot prisoners Southwest of ot the Germans delivered a violent attack against the French from Crom both sides Bides of SL St Eu- Eu Their effort to capture the village however howe was futile utile althou although h the they pushed their line slightly forward on the west side of ot It It Southwest of Ypres the Australian troops are arc keeping up their theta attacks against the Germans and have havo captured captured captured cap cap- the town of oC and with it prisoners and a a. number of or trench mortars and machine guns buns The Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans at last reports were heavily hea bombardIng bombarding bombarding bom bom- barding the new positions of ot the British BritIsh Brit Brit- ish |