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Show FHCI SHATTER EEBIISflllEll Gouraud's Army Overruns Positions Enemy Had Thought Impregnable. Old Lines Retaken and Many Prisoners Are Captured Cap-tured in Drive. P.UUS. Sept. The amiy of Gen eral Gounuid has Jum t.iken by torm in the set' tor between t he Sulppc and the ArKOnnes not only hi old itosiUlons, but all of the Gernuui first positions, says an official review of the aneo-American operations Issued today. A larsu portion of the old front here had been stabilized since liUo. The barrier behind which the enemy thoiiRht his army was absolutely s.vfe, the statement udds. has been shattered shat-tered and cap! urea. in July 15 General Gouraud's nrmy Hclneved & lnagnificent defensive victory. Uy ahaiulomns a narrow strip of Us advanced ad-vanced positions it broke the German drive and made possible all the successes obtained on all fronts since that daw The front of General Gouraud's attack ran from north of Maracee and Yiennae-le-Chaieau. stra4d!tns the Alsne at Mel-ricourt Mel-ricourt bordering the Tourbe river, north o! Yille-sur-Tourbe, throush the center or the Mam-de-Massles. the edge of the Futte-du-Mesnll, thence north to Ie Mesnil-les-Hurlus, Ferthes-les-Huilus and ifouain, thenct running along tJie Roman road to St. HlUaire Legmnde to the west of Prosnes and through the No Man's land at Prunay. Schedule Followed. The famous positions at Mesnil, Souain and the Navann farm were caotured during dur-ing the early hours of the attack, strictly accortng to the schedule mapped out. In an attempt 'to imitate the lesson received re-ceived on July 15 from General Gouraud. the statement continues, the enemy has abandoned his advanced positions in order to concentrate his forces upon positions strongly organized for resistance, but the new positions were located immediately and the range of tho artillery lengthened accordingly. The artillery preparation began at 11 o'clock Wednesday night. The soldiers of the Fourth at my went over the top exactly at 5 o'clock Thursday, full of confidence and cheered by the order which their chief had sent them at 5 o'clock and which concluded with these words: "It is our turn now and. with all those who are attacking with us, forward '" Germans Fooled. The German artillery reacted feebly except ex-cept in the hilly regions, where the enemy en-emy waited in vain for the principal attack at-tack to come on that side. We took possession of the Roman road and merely sent reconnoiterins parties toward Fort Moronvil'ers. which we had momentarily abandoned during the maneuver of July 15. Toward the close of the day our troops had progressed beyond the old positions of the l?lo battle of the Champagne and had taken the villages of Servon, Ripont and Rouvroy and the Butte-du-Mesnil. the Butte-du-Tahure, Butte-du-Mont Mauret and the Butte-du-Souain. Xavarin farm and the redoubtable mountain of Montfaucon a'so were captured. We took SO1""? prisoners and much materiaj which has hot yet been counted. |