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Show I 'Heavy Losses Inflicted on the I Enemy by American In-1 In-1 fantry and Artillery. WASHINGTON, July 4. In a con-iinuation con-iinuation of Tuesday's communique General Pershing today reported in ' graphic detail on the successful American Amer-ican operations near Chateau Thierry Monday and described activities along the various fronts held by Americans during several preceding days. The dispatch follows: "Section B (continued): The suc- cessful attack made by our troops in. the Chateau Thierry region on the evening of July 1 was carried out by( two battalions of United States infan-try. infan-try. The attack was preceded by a : .finely executed artillery preparation which was executed by American batteries bat-teries and lasted twelve hours. The infantry in-fantry action commenced at 6 o'clock in the evening. All objectives were gained and our positions consolidated inside of one and a half hours. The enemy's losses were exceedingly heavy one of his regiments being practically annihilated. The enemy's positions were taken at the point at the bayonet. The amount of material captured was very large and included considerable quantities of ammunition. "At 3:45 o'clock in the morning the a Germans counter-attacked. Thanks to the thorough consolidations of the position po-sition which had been made, the counterattack coun-terattack was repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy in killed and wounded. It also resulted in the taking . by us of additional prisoners. The number of prisoners so far counted is ' over 500. and includes six officers. Our casualties were light, considering the success obtained. ; "In the Chateau Thierry region between be-tween noon June 29 and 30 there was considerable activity of various sorts although no important developments took place. The German artillery was again aggressive, delivering much harassing har-assing fire during the morning hours. This was directed in part on our ad- i vance positions along the Belleau, t Clemembauts and Marottc woods, and ' was especially heavy on the right of i our positions. Numerous points in our rear areas were also shelled. The fire was continuous rather than heavy. High explosive shrapnel and a small amount of gas were all employed. Be-! Be-! sides delivering harassing fire the Ger-r Ger-r man batteries were obviously attempting attempt-ing to register on some of the roads in our rear. "Our own batteries vigorously returned re-turned the fire and at one point registered regis-tered directly upon a detachment of the enemy. The activity of the German Ger-man airplanes like that of the German Ger-man artillery was notable in being continuous rather than concentrated at any one time or place. More than the ; usual number of balloons were in ovi-t ovi-t dencc. One of the hostile planes was brought down by anti-aircraft fire op-i op-i poslte the right of our sector and forced forc-ed to land behind its own lines. Numerous Num-erous groups of men passed frequently I along the roads running between Gly-I Gly-I rey, Epaux, Balleau, Bonnes, Grisolles, i Etrcpilly, LcTartro and Plalsance. ; Wagons and trucks moved along the same routes singly and in large groups Infantry activity on both sides I was normal. "Along the Marne on the 2Sth and 29th of June the German artillery continued con-tinued to deliver the scattered but fairly vigorous fire of the days preceding. preced-ing. On this day, however, the heaviest heav-iest fire was on the left rather than on the right of our sector. On the other hand, our left sector still continued to draw most of the shrapnel. The shelling was confined mostly to the afternoon and evening and on objectives objec-tives identical with those previously reported. German machine guns were particularly quiet and there was little rifle fire. Hostile airplanes were also less frequently observed than has" been usual during the past fortnight. Behind the German lines men Nvero ;$een strolling about in the usual fashion. "In the Colmar sector the day of June 29 passed quietly. The German Infantry delivered some scattering machine ma-chine gun and rifle fire and made use of a few hand and rifle grenades. During Dur-ing the night German patrols were observed ob-served on several occasions, two of them coming under our rifle and grenade gre-nade fire. There were no encounters and no serious attempts to reach our lines. The German artillery delivered only light and scattered fire with guns1 mainly of medium calibre. His airplanes air-planes appeared only at rare intervals and were in nearly every case driven back by our anti-aircraft batteries. They were engaged mainly in reconnaissance recon-naissance work but made some attempt at-tempt to regulate the artillery fire. Behind the German lines the jiaymak-ing jiaymak-ing in which women play an Increasingly Increas-ingly large part, continued but neither in the matter of circulation nor In the construction of works did anything of note occur. "In the Mulhouse sector there was no unusual occurrence on June 29 apart from the increased activity on the part of the German air forces. Late in the afternoon an aircraft combat occurred and one of the German machines ma-chines was sent to ground In an apparently ap-parently crippled condition. Light artillery ar-tillery fire, throwing of a few grenades on our wife, with normal rifle fire and the ordinary circulation into the German Ger-man rear areas are comprised other activities of the day." The prettiest picture of the day was seen in an old town where, fetes have been given for a thousand years and I where no greater enthusiasm has ever been shown than when General Pershing Persh-ing picked up in his arms and kissed a liltlo girl who had presented him uith a floral wreath on behalf of the children of the city. A long line of the little ones filed past General Pershing Per-shing and General Castelnau as they stood in front of the city hall. oo |