Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-06
AFRICANS DRIVE GERMANS ID | NORTH BANK OF THE A|SNF

With rtnet sne Sept 5 (By The Asso- sne pross. p.o"s With the exception, of oi |ted |, rreJ,n ,onhine guns attachments left : Sacrifice themselves +1n I'll al: Germsns elru, cove, an the north side of the Alsne Llght'A Anerican and French troSps, Fhe an Aln'l followed closely on the o naVt ia the enemy since the exacua- ls ,f fl the sa: vesle Village began, were n ol 2, '"T eontact, harassing the rear
 is 1.l and hastening the movement |fne I5' 1s Miles From Laon. iH bofore nightfall the Ameri- ols sssd worked their way down into to s m, nau nlonds towards the Aisne off I9atsau lowlsu'ff from which they had been pla'elH la look over the next valley at 2 ossJtherdral sJ towers in Laon, not Ipen miles away. :: t5 5t is at that polhC WlleiS 10 .oo'esa heart v of the present German 0p- Stions. ,>,,,o;co+;on cen- l 'sv,i Snd 'T must naturally be defended \ 'tH the utmost determination if the ], nd 'o forces are to be prevented from su s;nc y' back to it the German lines m nv west and south.
 Must Take Up Old Defenses. Ihe retirement of the German to E;.;ons 4S north of the Aisne is regard ss ',Y only preliminary to their re- nation ao @ of their old lines of de- sa a1ong the Chemin Des Danes. a steady and rapid was the with |val of the German carried out that Inch cavalry was employed today to Entain contact at one or two places
 cavalry also. contributing to the btion of machine gun nests.
 'he % Americans were subjected at es to a rather heavy artillery fire ecially while going over the plat
 Over Open Ground.
 tor about two miles it was neces- T for them to advance in the open < ground plainly visible to German ervers. Fhere was little cover and both Wv and light artillery swept the e, but with slight effect and |cking to any degree the forward vement.
 Shelled All Points.
 Inc French and American artillery anwhile delivered a punitive fire eeted against the villages and roads Eond the Aisne and shelled the hts where machine gun nests fe located.
 Fhe clearing out of these nests was pmplished more by the artillery in
 engagement than in previous bat these machine guns had been left the Germans along a line admir-
 constructed.
 |ome sharp engagements occurred. These were brief, however, the Ger ns who were not killed or ser kly wounded withdrawing along lit communication trenches into large Inches leading to ravines, through ich they escaped. This was not 8
 for prisoners, the whole number hg less than twenty.
 The movement of the Americans the plateau was effected without terial loss, because, instead of ad- being in regular formations they filtered into and through the E, never presenting satisfactory get.
 he progress down into the low ds was similarly carried out.
 would be no surprise if the Ger ns extended their evacuation to the lon south of the Aisne which they in the direction of Rheims.
 Find 'Too Hot"
 IS considered possible that had lsh been made here, that part too lld have been included in the gains the past few days.
 ,. It IS regarded as inevitable that
 uermans will find that the newly
 e salient is untenable.
 they do not withdraw they will
 m a serious position, as at any
 pressure may be exerted both 'n Me south and northwest.