The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1918-10-07
Prisoners Taken by French.

Prisoners Taken by French.
The battle north of st. Quentin con
tinued all day and Remaucourt, Tilloy
ia rm and several fortified woods were
captured. the announcement says. The
enemy resisted furiously, but was un.
able to check the French, who cap.
tured several hundred prisoners.
French troops last night took the
town of st. Masmes, northeast OF
Haucine, farther to the east and north
of the Arnes river, the French war
office announced today.
Northeast OF ST. Quentin the Ger
mans attacked several times in an
effort to retake positions conquered
by the French All the attacks ex.
cept in the region Of Tilloy were re.
pulsed. Fighting in that region con.
tinues
Announce Three Successes
Announcement of these successes
was contained in the official statement
issued at the French war office. The
text of the statement reads:
North of St. Quentin the battle con-
tlAuCu Tie udy- DCl"CCh
Morcourt and Sequehart, our troops
have taken Remaucourt, Tolloy farm
and many fortified woods and places
where the enemy resisted with furious
energy. They failed to check the ad-
vance of our troops, who conquered
positions foot by foot and took many
hundreds of prisoners.
North of Rheims we have reached
the Suippe at a number of points.
German rear guards along the river
to the south made vigorous resistance
and launched many counter attacks,
but our troops repulsed them and in
flicted sanguinary losses. We hold
the southern outskirts OF Aguilcourt
and the village of Bertricourt, on the
north side of the Suippe. Farther to
the right we have forced the passage
of the river to the east of Granville
and have taken Pont Givart.
"The combats no less violent have
taken place in the region of Bazen-
court and Boult-sur-Suippe. These
combats have permitted us to reach
the outskirts of-these villages.
Complete Freeing Of Rheims
1--WE have debouched from the vii
lage of Betheniville, in spite of violent
machine gun and artillery fire, and
also have taken ground north of ST.
Clement-a-Arnes. In this region our
troops in the course Of their advance
had to meet some very strong counter
attacks. Our artillery fire caught
enemy battalions and inflicted heavy
losses upon them They were forced
to retreat in disorder
''Tndav'e ovopfc hovo ro,,,nlofod tho
delivery OF Rheims, the richness and
historical association of which excited
the covetousness Of the Germans, who
many times since the beginning of the
war have attacked the city and who
have vented their impotent rage
against it with incendiary lombard
ments, but who have never ben able
to- take it.
Atmospheric conditions on Oct 4
were not very favorable for observa-
tion along the eastern sectors OF the
front. Our bombing squadrons
dropped thirty tons of bombs during
the day on assemblages of troops, con-
voys and enemy batteries. During the
night, in spite OF the bad weather our
airplanes dropped LOO Kilograms Of
projectiles on military objectives at
Chatelet-sur-Retourne, where q fire
was observed. During the day 81
enemy machines were shot down or
put out Of the fighting"
Americans Force Gain.
Americans. fighting under the COM
mand of General Gouraud are credited
with an amazing performance in the
fighting OF Friday in the Champagne
sector. A detachmen. asi setybsdmf
sector. A detachment, assisted by
French volunteers, under an Ameri-
can captain, attacked very strong
machine gun nest on the slopes Of
Blanc Mont, which had long held up
the allied advance. With the utmost
skill, the nest was enveloped and cap
tured and the entire garrison Of four
officers and 269 men was made pris-
oner. Seventy-five machine guns.
many trench mortars and several
tractors were taken. The Americans
did not suffer a single casualty.