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Show German Crown Prince Striking With I 1 All Great Armies at His Command I RHEIMS STILL IN HANDS OF ALLIES I . - i Huns Pounding EnScnSc With Greater Fury WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE. June 1 , by V the Associated Press. American troops are reaching useful positions in the battle area. These troops display the most ar- dent desire to share in the present great battle with their Euro-! pean comrades. Having reached the Marne. the German crown prince is now striking westward with all the force of the great armies at yUK his command, with the apparent purpose of forcing the elimin-Ml elimin-Ml ation of the Montdidier salient and ultimately pushing in below be-low Amiens to cut off Paris from the north. So far, according to the French official reports, his pro-J pro-J ! gress has been small despite most desperate efforts. On the i important front between Soissons and Chateau Thierry, on I the Marne, indeed the French have bten impetuously counter- ' attacking and at points the enemy not only has failed to ad-vance ad-vance but has been forced to give ground. a This was notably the case immediately to the south of " 1 Soissons, where the enemy was thrown back upon the Crise 2 r river which runs in an almost north and south line through f" that town. Further south the Germans had worked some ii three miles west of the Soissons-Chateau-Thierry road and had taken the village of Chaudun. The French drove in here de-c de-c terminedly. however, and recaptured the place which they J now hold. Ground also was won from the Germans just be-JJJ be-JJJ low, near Yierzy. Still further south the German advance had progressed somewhat further from the main road to a total of fourteen r? miles. Paris reports, however, that new German attacks inj the region of Chauny and Neuilly were broken, the French ' maintaining their lines to the east of these towns. Rheims is still in Allied hands and in general there seems M to have been but little change along the easterly side of the L' i new German salient. The line runs northeastward from Ver-I Ver-I neuil along the Dormans-Rheims road and swerves protecting-ly protecting-ly northward around the cathedral city . The Germans seemingly have made no attempts to cross the Marne and they have not yet taken the important railway i junction at Chauteau Thierry. Elements of their advance, however, have spread out slightly further eastward along the north bank of the river, antl they are now occupying this bank for the distance of approximately twelve miles in an air line J between Chateau Thierry and Verneuil. WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, June I, by the Associated Press. Attempts of the Germans to cross the river Marne have met with vigorous resistance and failure. The troops which made the effort retired from the river bank, j WASHINGTON, June I. American volunteers and technical detachments yesterday blew up 32 enemy dugouts and a bridge, killing and wounding more than 20 of the enemy, en-emy, says an addition to General Pershing's communique of yesterday, received today. No mention is made in the day's re-Port re-Port of further fighting northwest of Soissons, where the Germans were t successful yesterday in forcing back the allied left wing In the direction of Noyon on the Oise. The night statement state-ment of Friday showed the Germans driven back across the Oi6C where they had crossed it at one point, near Samplgny, 60uth of Noyon, and to have been held up on the Noyon-Blerancourt I Soissons line Quiet prevails on the British front except for artillery fire, which was most notable east of Amiens and In the Albert region to the north. London newspapers reflect anxiety in the British capital over the military situation in the west as developed by the new offensive. Stress is laid on the H I assistance the American forces are ex t pected to give in restoring allied pre-' pre-' ponderance in numbers, and confl-I confl-I dence in the final outcome Is express-i express-i ed. ' . Pcins comment is, as has been the case all along, more optimistic, the military critics while viewing the sit -uation as serious, regard the Indications Indica-tions as more reassuring. r PARIS, June 1. Tbc Cernian attack I t i r continued during the night with redoubled re-doubled violence on the western side of the new salient between Soissons and Chateau Thierry. The French made counter-attacks and drove ba k the masses of German iroops in the region of Soissons and on the line of Chaudun-Yierzy. gaining prouud cv-I cv-I erywhere and faking several hundred I prisoners, the war office announces. Along the northern bank of th-Marne th-Marne the Germans pushed forward their advance parties from the north I and east borders of Chateau Thierry as far as Verneuil. On the French ! right there was sharp lighting on the j road between Dormans and Rheims. The situation Is unchanged northwest and north of Rheims German Artillery Busy. LONDON, June 1. The German artillery ar-tillery wqs considerably more active this morning in the sectors of Vlllers-Bretonneux, Vlllers-Bretonneux, east of Amiens, and He-buterne, He-buterne, north of Albert, it is announced an-nounced officially. MORNING REVIEW OF WAR SITUATION. Feeling the weigh) of greal numbers iContJnued on Page 10) i HIS POUND ENTENTE WITH I GREATER FORT (Continued From Pago 1) against the stubbornly resisting French defense north and south of I Soissons. the German crown prince has been unable to make progress on I this vital sector of the battle line from , Noyon to Rheims. In the center. Ger-man Ger-man detachments have reached the Murqe between Chateau Thierry and Dormans, while on the east the Franco-British line stands firm. Altei the retirement to the line through Bleranccurt and Epagney the French halted and in a series of fur - loufl Rttaclu and counter-attacks have held the enemy forces. West o.' Sois-1 sons, the Germans have been repulsed with great losses and for sonC ten miles south of tho uwn they ha e no' ?daneed more than several hur.dred yards in spite of assault after assault against the Trench defense. Along the Durcq. the Goni'tPt' gained n.nr Dulchy-le-Ciiatean and threaten Ch-; teau Thierry, an important railway center on the Marne, 46 miles northeast north-east of Paris, French Standing on the Marne. In the center where small enemy forces have advanced southward to the , Marne, the French tactics in the past : few days apparently has been to retire until the line of the Marne, of heroic men ty, could be reached Standing on the Marne with the river in front Of th:m, the allied forces in the center may attempt more strongly to check, the German onrush. In advancing to the Marne. the Germans have made ineffective in-effective the use of the Paris-Chalon railway which parallels the river on the south The railway has been the direct rail supply line to the Champagne Cham-pagne and Yerdun. Rheims still holds out but little hope is entertained that its defenders will long withstand the German attack-However, attack-However, the allied forces there have held the enemy for small gains for three days. North of the city the Germans Ger-mans have advanced only a few miles since Monday. The line eastward through the rhampagne to Yerdun is not yet affected by the battle on the Aisiie front. German Advance Since Monday. Since Monday the Germans have advanced ad-vanced southward from the Ailette across the Aisne and the Ourcq to an I extreme depth of 26 miles and' reached the Marne. Berlin claims the number num-ber of prisoners is now 45.000 Captures Cap-tures of war material are said to include in-clude more than 400 guns and several thousand machine guns. The German salient becomes more sharply pointed as the advance south- ward has continued and its width at the apex is now about ten miles. Extension Ex-tension of the battle line to connect it with the Somme battlefield is being attempted by strong and vicious enemy ene-my attacks on the west flank indicating indicat-ing the strong probability that it will be the German purpose to drive on toward to-ward Paris and cut the capital off from Amiens and the north rather than to strike east. Activity on American Sectors. ELs'-where on the western front In-eluding In-eluding the American sectors there has been an increase in activity. The Germans apparently have given up for the moment their violent counter-attacks against the new American positions posi-tions at Cantigny. Aerial activity by British aviators is at high pitch Many tons of bombs have been dropped on military targets and 28 enemy airplanes air-planes and two balloons have been destroyed. de-stroyed. Gree' troops in a brilliantly executed execut-ed attack near Soiran on the Macedonian Macedon-ian front have occupied enemy positions posi-tions on a front of seven miles to a depth of more than one mile. More than 1500 Bulgarian and German prisoners pris-oners and much war material was taken tak-en The Greek Infantry was supported support-ed by French artillery No Transport News. No further news concerning the torpedoing tor-pedoing of the American transport President Lincoln while returning to the United States from Europe has been received. The attack was made by daylight ami it is not helieved there were many casualties The President Lincoln was formerly a German liner and measured 18,000 tons. |
