The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-15
Latest Morning Reports Indi-
cate Yanks Are Not Budged.
Fight and Die Rather Than Al
low the Huns To Pass.
WAIT UNTIL THEY ARE CLOSE
Then Americans Open a With
ering Machine Gun Fire.
Long Rang BOmbardment Is
Becoming More Intense.

With the Americans on the
Marne, July Is q p. mO-The
Americans shortly before noon
launched a heavy counter attack
against large forces of Germans
which had forced a crossing of
the Marine at three points on a
four-mile front, east of Chateau
Thierry.
The enemy was driven off.
Shortly before this the Ameri-
cans counterattacked at Vaux,
west of Chateau Thierry, COM
pletely repulsing the German as
sault. The Americans caught
the boches in a terrific charge,
hurting them back TOO (almost
half mile) beyond the point
where their attack began.
Yankees Make Great Thrust.
American resistance slowed down
the German advance Preparations
for a counter attack began Immediate
", and the Americans swept forward
to the attack before the enemy could
reorganize his badly shattered units.
West of Chateau Thierry, the enc
my's efforts to recapture Vaux lasted
only a couple of hours. after which
the American counter attack thrust
them back far beyond their starting
point
For miles in the rear of the lines the
country is shaken by the artillery fire,
IS tho by an earthquake. The valleys
near VauX were heavily deluged with
gas, forcing the Americans to fight in
gas masks.
German losses were heavy every
where they attacked, but they were
particularly severe along the Marine,
where the boches paid a heavy toll
for the privilege of bridging the his
toric river.
Withdrawal of the Americans and
the French troops to their right, to
the base of the salient formed by the
bend in the Marine, was effected in
excellent order.
U. S. Troops Took 80 Huns.
In the Vaux fighting Americans
took thirty prisoners. They fought
from shell holes, or jumping into the
opening. hurled grenades and bayon-
cts until the German attack was
stopped.
Americans on BOtn sides.
The German drive extends from
west of Chateau Thierry to east of
Rheims. American troops are involved
on both sides of Chateau Thierry The
Germans apparently are trying to
reach Chalon.
Bitter fighting is in progress. espec-
tally along the Msrne, east of Cha
teau Thierry, where an American
counter attack is under way as this is
cabled.
At daybreak the boches threw pom
toon bridges across the Marine Sup
ported by artillery and machine guns,
their infantry rushed across in the face
of heavy fire.
The Germans succeeded in crossing
the river at three places-at Mezy, at
Jaulgonne and ut La Bretonnere farm
north of Fossoy.
Fossoy is four miles east of Chateau
Thierry.
It is clear that the German attack
in the VauX region completely broke
down under the American counter at
tack. Further sharp fighting is likely
to develop in this area at any time.
however.
Franco Americans Hold
Word received here shows that the
enemy also launched an attack east of
Rheims but on the sectors on that
front on which French and Americans
are fighting side by side the positions
are reported intact.
'Saw Whites of Eyes,
The American machine gunners
mere let the enemy come close to
heir positions and then opened a
leadly fire into the advancing close
formations of Germans
In their attack on the Marne front
the Germans threw many bridges
across the river. Over these the Ger
mans are passing under a withering
fire from the artillery. German pros
ress is being stayed by the machine
gunner.
The Americans and their French
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