Show HUNS m START DRIVE ON MILE 50 FRONT BATTLE CHRISTENED PEACE OFFEN OFFENSIVE IV RAGING WITH SIGNS OF GERMAN GERYAN FAILURE After Two Days of Facing Withering Fire from Guns of Fre French ch British and Americans the Huns Decide to Dig Themselves in Pur Paris The Th The long looked for or German drive began on July 14 on a front of 65 miles After many many weeks of preparations preparations prepa prepa- rations the Hu Huns s started forward evidently with fth the thought that th they y would on through gh to paris Paris But ut they have been bee disappointed The allied forces have hay held and only in unimportant points have the followers follow follow- ers erf- of the kaiser been able to maKan make maK an any progress progress while In in ha many many instances instances they have be been ii ll forced to gro At any rate the line Is holding heroic French British and American tl troops ops Inflicting terrible punishment t upon the enemy The American soldiers have demon their fighting qualities mowing down the attacking Huns driving them back in dashing counterattacks taking tak tak- ing tw two villages from the Germans fin In one day many prisoners falling into the of of the men from Ameri America a. a At this stage stag of what nay be the tie thelast thelast last great battle of the wart wai It is safe to state t that the German offensive on the mile 65 front from Chateau Chatea Thierry to Massiges Massiges' in Champagne has proved a failure tAt lAt At n no p place pace ace has the tle enemy succeeded in advancing more than three miles Already he has lost his his' his his' initial Hi His HIS HIS' efforts effort no now are reduced re reduced reduced re- re to local attempts The only tactical advantage gained by the attackers' attackers lines Is slight gains to the the- west vest of threatening to pinch off the enemy's salient sallent with tie le famous mile 12 elevation dominating lg the plain j Expert estimators is that 3 35 German divisions already have been engaged d. d Sixty five pe per cent of orffs total eff effectives e have nav q been en brought i into intonation to toa a nation action for forthe the most insignificant gains The bloodiest fighting took pl place ce southeast o of ot Rheims where the G Germans Germans Ger Ger- r- r mans tried to break through to Mour- Mour melon le melon leGrand Later Lafer th the Germ Germans Germans' ns' ns made seven sevea vicious assaults on the Marquises ses farm all aU of which broke bro broe e down with the heaviest t loss losses s the streaming back leaving the ground strewn with dead H Hundreds ds ds of corpses were counted on oa this fi field l i of combat The de Boise was turned into a veritable charnel house Late Tuesday there ther were signs of ot th the I battle spreading eastward It It Iti is pre presumed pie pie- th that thIt t the kaisers kaiser's heir has been forced to to toc c call u rn in res reserves from from the Bavarian ll i croya prince rince Sev Several German t rf wi en interrogated in in- d declared red th the 1 had be been n told that this offensive would eno enforce ce the German German conditions of of peace on oJ th the allies The battle has been christened by them th the peace otI The t that t t the the n of men thrown into nt fhe E lin line lineon on t this ls occasion n was vas fu fully i equal eq equal to the teta tatal forces force utilized l In n attack t fore 5 S |