The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-06-07
AMERICAN MARINES
DRIVE ENEMY BACK
OVER TWO MILES
TROOPS PLUNGE THROUGH HUNS
LINES AT DAWN-AMERICANS
FIGHT LIKE TIGERS, COM.
MANDERS HAVE TROU.
BILE TO HOLD
THEM BACK.
Sang and Visited as They Went
"0ver Top"-Occupy Important
High Ground Near Village Of
Chateau Thlerry-Take
200 Prisoners.

Win tne AMERICAN army III Ilcdrus
June 6-American marines attacked
the Germans at dawn this morning
and gained 3:1a kilometers over
four klometer front and captured 100
prisoners in the Chateau Thierry sec
tor. The French attacking at the
same time on the left took 100 prison.
Crs
The Americans now hold all the i'm
rortant high ground northwest of
Chateau Thierry.
The marines again attacked at
o'clock this afternoon, and the battle
is still raging.
The fight started at 9:45 o'clock this
morning, and the Americans had at
tanned all their objectives by 7;45
o'clock.
The Americans have been pressing
the Germans so hard that the enemy
has been forced to throw three new
divisions of his best troops in the line
during the last three days
The Americans are like tigers Their
commanders have all they can do to
hold the men back, even the wounded
ere enthusiastic and eager to fight.
They are proud of their wounds. A
general who visited a field dressing
station said he was elated by the
sight.
The Americans sang and whistled
Yankee Doodle" and cheered as they
went over the top and made their way
swiftly through the German dead that
lay strewn in No Mans Land.
New York, June 6-Although the
latest communication announces that
the situation on the battle front is un-
changed, there has been change on
one of the most important sectors in
Picardy, and American marines were
responsible for it.
Attacking on a front of about 2lh
miles in a fight that began Thursday
with the break of dawn, the marines,
IN four hours drove back the enemy
over a distance of virtually "a miles
and occupied all the important high
ground northwest of Chateau Thierry,
which village in previous fight the
american machine gunners had turn
ed into a shambles by the accuracy of
their aim as the Germans tried to
Nrest a bridge from them.
After a breathing space in Thurs
days battle, the Americans late in the
afternoon returned to the fray and at
last accounts hard fighting was in
progress for this important sector,
which commands the Marne at that
part of the front where the battle line
swings eastward toward Rheims. The
marines took 100 German prisoners
early in the encounter, while the
French troops on their left also gain
ed an advantage over the enemy and
made $50 of his men captive.
So hard pressed have the Germans
been by the attacks of the Americans
in the Chateau-Thierry sector during
the last few days that they have been
compelled strongly to reinforce their
front, using three divisions of picked
men in an attempt TO hold back the
men from overseas. Thus far. how
ever. their efforts have been unavail-
ing. The Americans would not be
denied their detectives.
yhe heavy attacks OF the Germans
along the front from Rheims TO the
northwest of scissors are still at a
halt, although offensives are being
attempted at isolated points and BON
Lardments Of violence are being car
rled out on various sectors, especial
ly in the region OF Rheims
Everywhere the Germans have es-
sayed an attack II has been met with
sharp repulse. These seems to be
no doubt that the allied line has been
sufficiently strengthened TO Withstand
the shock troops OF the Germans and
"A n seeminsly not beyond the realm