The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-08-02
HUNS HURLED BACK
BY ALLIED TROOPS
GERMAN FORCES COMPELLED Toe
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 come to the allied
forces, and bitter defeat Tor the Ger
mans.
The entire German Marine front has
caved In and the Huns are on the run.
The drive of the allies has been com
plete success
Undoubted signs are apparent that
the Germans are withdrawing from the
entire region between the Marine 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
eounter-offensive. Arriving at scissors
the French stopped The enemy rush
ed troops into the town, but Foch did
not strike at 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 Scissors
was vaIueIess 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 scissors 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.
the Americans had taken the southern
pivot at Chateau Thierry and were.
moving rapidly north toward Epieds,
Breezy and Coincy. Further east the
French and Americans had crossed the
Marine near Jaulgonne.
Between scissors and Chateau Thi-
erry the enemy was fighting desper-
ately to- hold another pivot, Oulchy Lee
Chateau, west Of the base at Fere en-
Tardenois. And to the north he fast
ened wedge into the Franco-Ameri-
can armies at Vil1emontoire 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 il
by a clever maneuver and pressed on.
In the next two days the French and
Americans had drawn line beyontiE
Villemontoirs, Oulchy lie Chateau,
Coincy, which is several miles north.
of Epieds, and down to the river near
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 tic
fight just southwark of Rheims. Tie
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 enc
my to retire in the later stages of the
battle. They must have created many
a 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 q
local attack southeast Of Amiens, in
the Picardy sector They penetrated
to depth of about two miles on a
four-mile front, recapturing high
ground of great value. They took
1900 prisoners, four cannon and much
military material.
In the past fifteen days the allies
have captured about 10000 prisoners.
nearly 800 cannon. hundreds of machine
guns, German food supplies, munitions
of all kinds and depots containing all
sorts of military material
In Albania the French and Italians
have secured more ground and have
taken hundreds of prisoners.
American fighting troops have arr
rived in Italy.