The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-08-02
HUNS HURLED BACK
BY ALLIED TROOPS
GERMAN FORCES COMPELLED TO
RETREAT BEFORE FRENCH AND
AMERICAN ATTACKS.
Past Week Has Been Disastrous for,
Huns, Thousands Being Killed or
Captured and Nearly 500 Cannon
Taken by Victorious Allies.

Paris.-The past week has seen one
success after another comet the allied
forces, and bitter defeat for the Ger
mans.
The entire German Marne front has
caved in and the Huns are on the run.
The Grive of the allies has been COM
plete success
Undoubtcd signs are apparent that
the Germans are Withdrawing from the
entire region hRtween the Mnrne and
the Ourcq, where the enemy has found
1t virtually impossible to maintain him.
self because Of the allies steady
advance and bombardment.
The advances scored by the allies In
the past week have been chiefly along
the front on which Foch launched his
counter-offensive. Arriving at scissors
the French stopped. The enemy rush
ed troops into the town, but Foch did
not strike ut that point. He permitted
the enemy to do the fighting in the
scissors region and delivered his
punch further south along the line.
The advantage gained thereby was that
the enemy concentration at Solssons
was valueless unless the enemy attack
ed. Realizing the situation, the Ger
man high command ordered counter
blows along the line. They drove the
allies back a little from Soissons and
southwark In the region of Hartennes.
When these counter-blows had spent
their force the French and Americans
again moved forward. BY this time
~. toI~a bn cpf1tharn
pivot ut Chateau Thierry and were
moving rapidly north toward Epieds,
BREEZY and Coincy. Further east the
French and Americans had crossed the
Marne near JaulgOnne.
Between Soissons and Chateau Thi-
erry the enemy was fighting desper-
ately to hold another pivot, Oulchy le
Chateau, west of the base at Fere en-
Tardenos And to the north he fast
ened wedge into the Franco-Ameri-
can armies at Villemontoire. These
two towns were held by the enemy
until Wednesday or Thursday, but both
! are now in possession of the allies.
Our American forces moving from
the south had been held up by furious
, counter-attacks at Epieds. Thrice
! elected from the town, they captured
> by clever maneuver and pressed on
In the next two days the French ant
: Americans had drawn line beyen'
{ Villemontors, Oulchy lie Chateau
Coincy, which Is several miles nortl
of Epieds, and down to the rivex~neal
Jaulgonne. East of that the enemy
continued to grip the river.
One OF the most brilliant moves
made by the. generalissimo was the
flinging of the British army into the
fight Just southwark Of Rheims. The
enemy high command could not have
expected such maneuver.
When the full story of the battle is
told, we shall probably hear that the
allied airplanes and the heavy artil-
lery shooting to great distances were
largely instrumental in forcing the ene-
my to retire in the later stages Of the
battle. They must have created many
q panic and caused disorganization OF
an appalling sort along the railways
and highways as well as at the bases
During the~week the French made Il
local attack southeast Of Amiens, II
the Picardy sector. They penetrated
to depth of about two miles on. .
four-mile front, recapturing higl
ground Of great value They tool
1900 prisoners, four cannon and muci
military material.
! In the past fifteen days the allies
have captured about 10000 prisoners
nAarly 500 cannon, hundreds of machine
guns, German food supplies, munitions
I of all kinds and depots containing al
sorts of military material.
In Albania the French and italians
have secured more ground and have
/ taken hundreds of prisoners.
American fighting troops have ar
rived in Italy.