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Show THB5CDTCH Disastrous Results Follow Fol-low German Attack Near Meteren; Frightful Fright-ful Losses Incurred in Taking Small Post. ALLIES ADVANCE IN RHEIMS SECTOR Only Artillery Activity South of the Ourcq Jjpver; London and ' iris Papers Consider tuation Favorable. WITH THIS BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, July 26. (By the Associated Press.) The German attack this morning morn-ing near Meteren Jiad even more disastrous disas-trous results for the enemy than was first believed. The Germans attempted to reach the Gaza road to the south of Meteren, where tliey could menace the town. They sent over two companies from each regiment of the 120th division, which has just replaced re-placed other troops who had been badly mauled during the month. The 120th division came up from Italy. One regl-'ment regl-'ment wears special "Kaiser Karl" shoulder shoul-der straps, won for Its services in the Ilallan theater. This regiment will get no decorations for the deeds performed today. Scotch troops inflicted heavy losses and preventer! prevent-er! the Germans from getting anywhere Mar their objective. The Germans managed man-aged to. get one small outpost; that was all. In the samo locality the Australians are busy knocking the Germans about. Their shells have chewed up nearly all the crossroads, dumps and other targets within with-in range. Tho rain of the past few days 1ms muddled this front of swollen rivers and streams, malting the low ground extremely ex-tremely soft and mushy. If the Germans have planned to attack to the north, It will not require much more rain to require re-quire them to change their plans. ALLIES ADVANCE TO THE SOUTHWEST IN RHEIMS SECTOR o H.PARIS, July 2ti. Only artillery activity PveNlled south of tho Ourcq river Friday, Fri-day, the infantry on both sides remaining remain-ing In their trenches, according to the French official communication Issued this evening. Several additional advances have been made southwest of Rheims. Tho communication follows: South of the Ourcq there has been reciprocal artillery activity without infantry actions. On the northern bank of the Marne we captured at tho close of the day yesterday Keull and tho Savarges farm. We also pushed hack the enemy en-emy to the southern outskirts of the Ullages of Blnson Orqulgny and VII-lers-sous-Cliatlllon. The total number of prisoners captured cap-tured on the L'5th at Villcmontore and the region of Oulchy-lc-Chateau was lot). On tho Champagne front our troops, after having broken the German offensive of-fensive on the 13th and 16th, have carried out during the following days a series of local attacks. In spite of the enemy's resistance we have made to the east of the S-uippes an advance ad-vance of about 3300 meters to the , Keneral line of St. Uillaire Grande, Souain and Le Mesnll-Lez Hurlus. 'ojiavo reconquered entirely Main lasslgcs and reoccupied in this gion our former first line. During these operations we have taken 1100 Prisoners, 200 machine guns and seven Kilns. I'-'ghtccn machines were brought downby British aviators working in (Continued on Page Two.J CRACK HUH REGIMENT HEP BY SCOTCH (Continued from Page One.) conjunction with us. On our part we dropped more than thirty-eight tons of bombs during the day and night on stations, railway communications, communica-tions, sheds, munitions depots and parks in the rear of the zone of battle. bat-tle. Fires and explosions were observed. ob-served. British bombing aviators also have carried out several expeditions and dropped four tons of bombs on Ba-zoehes, Ba-zoehes, Fere-en-Tardenois and Mont Notre Dame. .; Army of the east, July 25: The en-,-emy iiaa attempted several local attacks at-tacks to the west of Lake Doiran and between Lakes Presba and Ochrida. They were repulsed with serious losses and Without the enemy having been able to reach our lines. In Albania we are organizing our conquered positions. The number of prisoners captured in this region since July 21 is 6S0, inclding twenty officers. of-ficers. Allied aviators have carried out numerous nu-merous bombardments. One enemy machine has been brought down. |