Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-19
With Bayonets Fixed, They
Leap by Thousands Into
Awful Charge.
GERMANS MAKE FUTILE
ATTEMPT TO STEM RUSH
Soissons Now Under HEAVY
Bombardnent of Franco
American Gunners.
RHEIMS IS ABOUT TO FALL
Miles Upon Miles OF Territory Are
Gained, While Many Prisoners
Arc Brought Into Camps.
PARIS. Ju.y la-"Lct.s go. {"


PARIS july l3--"Lct's go"
ny signal and whisper the mage
word was passed along the Franco
American lines between The A!snc ana
the MarEe just as tic mrs. peep. o.
sun ushered in the fourteen hundred
and rft!c;h day OF the war-Foch's
day. at last,
over the parapc,s leaped. bayonc,
hNod thousands after thousands O,
hShinS men Americans and French.
CAT across no mans land" they dashed
Twenty-fve miles Of front ,ha, had
been thought asleep was suddenly
alive. ahlaze. swarning with p!c,ur-
es14clr mingled Khaki and horizon blue
Inc fanis ana The po!!us were going"
How--and not unti! now-,hc guns
tuned up. myriad French and Amer
lean shells wh:siled overhead bidding
Hodspecd 10 tho s,orm!ng lads -
the hFst shower o: hot metal fel upon
me German support and reserve posi-
tons ;he foes first lines were already
,aken
On s,ormel the yanhs and roilus-
one, three. five mics and on.
Tonight. as ;his ia seat. they are
stu going. and going hard The whole
German front between Scissors and
Chateau Thicrr" on the M.rne Is
shaking And the danger TO the Ger
mans lies ~ tho fact :ha, ,h!s IRON,
is their right flank II il caves IN all
ihei! forces must get back b,yona the
- ron, ~ -. ''4' > |"
,ura ,s ,,orI.ah ~-i' cap
rn,.>
'' >oissoNs
So'sSo"s' the great .iisac raj! base.
which fe!! to the Germans in the!-
May drive. is tonight Under lombard
~ F't"ch '"G American shells
'e"s" "a american troops arc wt,n.n
20 a. '''E' rs .i!! mag be an
a!S '"CMtAt
'e" az" 'aH!-E part in
"a'''e' '"e i't''l" y a! once says
80 i| e;i'E tdM!t.lnE
S'o1'. vas captured 10y
e''e"'
- 'ou' ann" 'ncemsa'. 'Nts
~ ,.t esl' YES '-".uE rhrt :n
"t' war Offices
such ,bi,-, """. '-'7
a canoun,r.. 80,
plea TO the ,rooDs .nr,-as ",io,1
- ~
balm for The people a. horn. who $50
gigantic German drive suddenly
turned into 4 desperate German def.n
sve' Also Berlin again delibc-.,.,,.
"Mits mention % the Amcricsn rs i. this
first great allied offensive Of the wear
Tonight one o: tho greatest battles
OF the who!e war RACES in the huge
triangle OF Soissons- -Rhcials- Chateau.
ihlerrS. Violent fSht!ng also s going
on to the east of Rheims Briefly. the
battle developments ur 20 early to-
hiSht were
Ihe Germans in their new Narnc-
champagne drive. while having been
beaten oecisiFe!y by the Americans on
'he 'hdFHe. ana eE Franco American
Troops on ooth sides OF Rheims. were
making $40" hut steady progress be
tween inc Marine and Rheims. south
oi t"e CathecraI City. They had
Passeo tue NanteuiI line and taken
ouf'S' at the cage OF the Rheims
Hou"'a1'' HireahS thcN were begin
"i"s 'o hi"'e away at the western
s4opeS VI ''i"' s'ratee!c bastion.
FALL OF RHEIMS BELiE:VED
PERlLouSLI NEAR At HAND
Rheims seemed periIo,sIv r.,r T.,
doom To send reserves "a the Ersn.aN
Italian Rheims army is q dincu,, >,
most impossible thing. in view of tho
encircling lineup OF the German forc.s
So Foch decided to strike at The nost
vulnerable German front. the eank hn-
tween Soissons and Cha,eau.Thi.rrv
Even to-day, while the new corh,,
RACES on the German flank. the Eaiser.s
army southwest of Rheims was cIosipe
in upon the city from tho sou,b ,a,