The Arvada enterprise., 1918-08-01
ALLIES ENTER FERE.EN-TARDE.
Nols AND TAKE TWO TOWNS
NEAR RHEIMS.
FOE DEAD LINE MARINE
FRANco-AMERlcAN GUNS ROAR
DEATH CLIMAX TO GREATEST
BATTLE OF WAR.

AlSne- -Marne Front, July Z9.-Iae
French and Americans have con-
tinued their rapid advance to the
northeast, and the forest OF Fere was
cleared OF the enemy Saturday after
noon. The allied toTcos are losing
contact with the Germans.
Paris.-The Germans Saturday re-
treated along the whole front north
OF the Marne, the war office an
nounced. French and allied troops,
pressing hard on the enomy rear
guards. have reached the line of Bruy-
eres-Villenueve Sur Fere, Courmont,
Passy-Grigny, Cuisles. La Neuville
and Chaumuzy. This means that the
German crown prince and his generals
are extricatfng their troops from dan.
gerous positions as best they may.
The Franco-American troops. con-
tinuing their pressure on the Germans
in retreat from the Marne, have
reached and crossed the OurcQ river
and penetrated the town of Fere-en-
Tardenois, one of the great German
supply bases for the enemy troops in
side the scissors. Rheims salient.
Meantime. on the center OF the a.
lied right wing southwest of Rheims.
violent attacks by the French have
forced the enemy to give further
ground and enabled the French to cop.
ture several towns of strategic value
and to draw their front appreciably
nearer the high road which runs
northestward from Dormans to
Rheims.
On the extreme wings of the grad
ually decreasing pocket-near Sois-
sons and Rheims-the enemy, heavily
reinforced, is holding tenaciously. real
lzing that successes there would re.
suit in a general crumbling OF his
plans Of defense against the locking
up Of his entire armies inside the big
bag.
In addition to the large number Of
troops for reinforcement that have
been thrown on these two sectors, the
German long-range guns from the re.
gion north OF Scissors and north and
Of Rheims are keeping both
wings Of the salient under a heavy en-.
fire.
Under the battering tactics OF the
Americans and Frenchmen the Ger
man line on the south has now been
driven back more than twelve miles
from the point south Of Chateau Thisr-
~. where the allied troops locked the
door to Paris against the enemy July
lS and themselves became the aggres-
sors in what has turned out one of the
greatest battles Of the war.
The crossing OF the Ourcq, even II
only by advanced elements Of the al.
lied forces. presages a general cross.
Ing later on. The French official com.
thus far during the battle
have been remarkably conservative in
their estimates of the gains that daily
have been made.
1t Is indicated In unofficial dis.
patches that allied troops are consid.
erably In advance Of the line - an.
officially. Where the Ger.
mans are In retreat. cavalry has beeh
brought into the fighting. Tanks and
guns are harrying the enemy
whose losses are heavy. Airplanes are
Tying over the retreating hordes,
dropping bombs. while the big allied
guns from the sides Of the salient are
keeping up their intensive firing from
all angles into the dsnsely congested
area. -
London. July 27-The Germans to.
lay retain virtually nothing Of the
ground they conquered In their great
attack Of July Is along the Marne.
says Reuters correspondent at French
headquarters. East Of Rheims, the
adds. General Gouraud's
army. by a series OF brilliant local op.
has expelled the enemy al.
most everywhere from the narrow bel,
he occupied In Gouraud's advanced
zone.
Villsmontoire. little more than five
niles south OF soissons. has been tax.
m by the French and Americans.
while further south they have cap.
.ured Oulchy.le-Chatenu and swept on
EAST Of the town.
Every line Of communication within
he German salient Is under lombard.
nent either from the allied artillery or
,irplanes. Enemy troops arc suffer.
ng terrible privntions. owing to the
Of obtaining supplies.
Since the allies control virtually cv.
Try road and every path. the fatiKucd
icrman units cannot be relieved.
Americans. French, British and ltal.
an troops are steadily pressing for.
ward at nearly nil points on the battle
Inc to Rheims. while east Of the ca.
hcdral city "a Polish contingcnt--th
irst Of the Poles to enter the cont bat,
\ declared to have carried out sue.
an enterprise against the en-.
my In which more than 200 Germans
we're made prisoner.
CxechoS Slovak troops have captured
he important town OF simbirsk. about
0o miles east Of Moscow. according
o an official Telegram from Moscow.