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Show PersMug Reports American Amer-ican Meeting Heavy German Attacks. ,FACE CRACK TROOPS Enemy Swept Back and Dead Lie in WASHINGTON, July 30 Severo fighting resulting from heavy counterattacks counter-attacks by fresh enemy troops beyond the line of the Ourcq was reported in General Pershing's communique for yesterday received today at the war department. The statoment follows: Headquarters American Expeditionary Expedition-ary Forces, July 29, 1918. Section A. Beyond tho line of tho Ourcq heavy counter-attacks made by fresh troops of tho onemy have resulted result-ed In severe fighting. Sergy, taken by our troops yesterday, after having changed hands six times, remains in our possession. Section B. There is nothing to report re-port in this section. Americans At Disadvantage LONDON, July 30 Describing the attack of the Fourth guard division on tho Americans who are now organizing organ-izing their line after their victory, Router's correspondent with the Americans were at a considerable disadvantage dis-advantage in numbers in this fighting. "There was no holding the crack, fresh picked division of guards as it came down the hill," he continues. "The Americans had to give ground to weight of numbers and fought back step by step through Sergy down to the Ourcq. They were very far from done with, however, and beforo the Germans realized it, they had been forced to yield ground and were pushed push-ed clear through the village. "That was tho beginning of a desperate des-perate struggle which continued all day. Each side In turn had possession of tho village until the evening when the Americans, with a final fury of determination, swept tho Germans from the ruins and then up the hill, broke another counter-attack of the German guards and remained victorious victor-ious on a field where the enemy's dead actually lay in heaps." "Tho piles of German dead were all tho more noticeable," tho correspondent correspond-ent adds, "since tho guards came into the fight with brand new equipment, as if thoy had turned out for parade before the emperor." |