Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-27


CopDrfoht. 1918. by Nc,o York Times co.
With the American Army, July 27.
Between the Ourcq and the MarnU
the American and French troops hay
continued their methodical progreS
northward. Thursdays advance
three kilometers was about the samU
as the day before.
Against stubborn resistance by tn
Germans, the French, British an
Italians are keeping up the pressur
on the sides of the salient below
Rheims and scissors, while the AmeI
leans and French are pushing UP th|
tip of the salient, biting off their bi|
day by day.
The advance of the American
| Thursday took them within six kid
meters Of Fere.en.Tardenois, whicl
lies, twenty-five kilometers north d
Chateau.Thierry. The Germans l
Fere.en-Tardenois are under a cor
stand bombardment by our guns. whic U
are sending tons of high explosive
into the boChe defenses. We are NJ.
using gas, because we do not wish oil.
/ troops to be pestered with it whe
| they get. into the town.
The FTanco.American troops too
Hill 141 away from the boche yeste}
! day and. getting on the other side
position. Our troops also took Coiny
which has changed hands severs
times in the last 'two days. and We
| terday morning were firmly II
/ trenched in position in front of tn
village. Most of Tournelle Woods [
! in our hands.
! Beuvardes. where the German
made stubborn stand with machin
guns, was taken by us in a hankinu
movement. From Beuvardes, til
| American lines run through the north
| ern part of the Forest de Fere to [
Charmed and through the Forest d
| Ris to in front of Dormans. In
! this region, assisted by the scout woru
of the French cavalry, we made goo
progress.
The bitterest fighting for the Anne
! leans Thursday was in the region
lie Charmed. which changed hand
j twice. This village lies on the JauI
gonne road. and has a wooded hill o.
each side. The Germans had stron
! machine.gun posts in the village AM
other machine guns in the hills
With the greatest daring the Anne
leans pushed into the village but wer
raked by the machine guns from tn
! hills and by artillery and had to I'D
! out. In a subsequent effort. assiste
by comrades in the Fore-de. Ris d
one-side and the Fore.de.Fere on tn
other. we took La Charmed just
! we took Epieds, further northwes
| the day before. The German witt
drawal was slow and stubborn.
Our greatest efforts must be directeX
against the large number of machir
| guns the Germans use. They witt
draw leaving concealed machine CUR
| which open up at comparatively clos
| range, making some times very diy
! ficult problems. ~
AS the Americans are learning q
draw the line between proper braverI
and improper recklessness, every daI
sees us able to take these nests witl
less loss. Once located they al
| doomed.
With Fere-en-Tardenois out of I'll
, Germans control, as it is under COT
stant range. and with the Allied soldiet
every day cutting n bit off the saler
| it appears that the Germans canny
make their expected big stand wEet
they first planned. that is, on the lin
approximately through Fere-en-Tarde{
! ois
/ Back of that position is the ,Ard}
River and still further back the AisI
! River, from which the Crown Prin@
started on his hard-luck drive. 1t
known that the German command hi
between twenty and thirty divisions
shock troops not recently used, and /
! also Is believed that IL the Allies ke{
| on progressing Ludendorff will use thol
troops to try to check further witt
drawa of marked extent.
They are holding most stubbornly
| the part of the salient north of Dormau
which might indicate an intention
form n stronger line this side OF
! Arare However, the capture by Il
I ,r "a would
! II very difficult for the Kaiser to mail
tain troops in the Dormans vicinitI
Perhaps his stubborn resistance in
last three days was intended to enaH
| him to get war material out of the 81
lient. which is slow and hard work Wi
no railroads and the main highwat
under range of the French and America
guns.
The efforts being made to stem II
Franco American advance was SHOW
by the fact that the prisoners bei1
taken in tie Dormans region are
best German troops, including the III
yarian and Prussian guards.
The boche shelling and bombing Of OF
hack areas lis taken good-naturedly
our soldiers | was On the north bar
of the Marne today, where the enenI
was industriously but futilely shelli1
our engineers making bridge. Near
! half n hundred doughboys We're In swim
ming while the shells were falling in q
river. Others were playing about
boats which the Germans had USED
cross the Marne on the morning OF Ju
; Is, on the bank. in the ruins OF
house, others had gathered around
piano which was unharmed and wei
busily hammering out over There
other popular American airs.
The Germans are very BUSY bombi1
. cur back area, not only at night put
broad daylight. Their bombers flew ovt
THURSDAY afternoon at a great heigI
and dropped a considerable number
bombs, only one of which did the lea
bit of harm.
German chasse machines also are bui
against our machines protecting Il
.~-or We brought down four machinI