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Show ENEMY UNABLE TO UN. I Allies Counter Attack and Improve Situation. I FURIOUS STRUGGLE Americans at Point Where Desperate Fight Is Expected. WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN I FRANCE, June 4 (By the Associated I Press.) The Germans were unable to score further gains in their efforts to reach Villers-Cotterets yesterday, in spite of a struggle of a most severe nature, while around Chateau Thierry: counter-attacks by the allies hac im-proved im-proved the situation. Tho struggle yesterday along the Whole battle line was very severe but generally resulted in favor of the allies, al-lies, whoso power of resistance is growing rapidly with the arrival of re- serves. The hardest fighting occurred be-t be-t ween the Aisne and the Oise for the possession of Choissv hill to tho west of Cuts. The allied troops there covered cov-ered themselves with glory in repeated repeat-ed attacks which were flnallv success va I ry Captureo Ground. in the vicinity of Trocsnea, accompanied accom-panied by a battalion of chasseurs, cavalrymen in the course of a counterattack counter-attack recaptured a slice of territorv 2000 yards In depth. Farther east In the neighborhood of Verneull and Dorraans. the enemy con - centrated several of his best divisions but if is believed from the assertion of prisoners that an attempt to cross, tli- .Marne Is not likely . The British and French fought shoulder to shoulder in an attack near Champlat, where they drove the Oer- . mans bark with severe losses and captured cap-tured a number of prisoners. Americans in Important Action. WASHINGTON, June 4 With American troops aiding the French ai two points on the new battle front there are indications that the war dc-partment dc-partment had some advance knowledge of the purpose of General Foch. su-preme su-preme commander, to put American troops into the fight on the new lines. It is known that announcement of! some important action of the Ameri-Can Ameri-Can forces In t his area was foreshadowed foreshad-owed in vesterda v's nffirinl .iilviees The action at Neuilly in which the Americans participated in thrusting back the German advance, appears to be on the flank of a renewed German J effort to press westward. To the north ! the Germans have progressed directly, west on the road from Soissons toi Compiegne also It Is thought possible that an effort fs now being made to I encircle Villers-Cotterets forest which : has heretofore proved a sfumbllnR : block in the road of the great turninc 'movement hinging on Soissons which is in progress. In that case the Americans are at a (point where desperate fighting Is to be expected and their dash and eagerness i may well be of substantial aid to the French in stemming this new thrust to 'cut off Paris from the battle zones of ! Plcardy and Flanders. Heavy Fighting on the Aisne. LONDON. June 4 The line north and south of Ourcq, east of the forest of Villers-Cotterets. was the scene of the heaviest fighting Monday on the I Aisne front, says Reuti r's correspond' ' enl with French headquarters in France. German gains were counter j balanced by French gains and tho situation sit-uation Is more hopeful, j ',Tod;i." continues the correspond-I correspond-I ent writing Monday night, "the f iqh ' ; Ing has been hardest along the eastern odco of the forest of Villers-Cotterets land southward between the Ourcq and Mnrne valleys. The thick mass of forest for-est offers great opportunity for the development of German movements for an advance. "Germans attacked in the morniuK with two divisions, one of which, the Twenty-eighth) WSS entirely repulsed. ! The llghtinc was terribly bitter, cen- tering around the villages of Longpont, Corey, Favroles and Trolscourt. Fav-' Fav-' roles a taken by the Germans and i retaken by the French." J HHHjfljjHIHj |