The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-03
FORCE
PUSHESAHEAD
To PLATEAU
FACING LAON
Elite of German Army Thrown
Against Franco-American
Troops Around Juvigny-
Resists at Great Sacrifice.
STRIKE GERMAN LINES
BULLETIN
(By Associated Press.)

BULLETIN
(By Associated PressD
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN
, THE FIELD, Sept. 3.-The battle for
the plateau north of Scissors has
used up some of the best divisions re-
naming in the German army Yes
terday's fighting between Crecy-Au-
Mont and Leuilly and between Juyig-
ny and Terny was particularly severe.
This was evidenced this morning by
7 the field being strewn with the dead
of the Prussian guards. They are
piled one on top of the other in some
| trenches and long lines of them show
where the guards counter attacked
five times in a vain effort to stem the
tide of battle which was running re.
lentlessly against them.
Each one of these efforts added
largely to the losses of the Prussians
in wounded as we'll as in dead while
after each rush a lot more of uh-
wounded prisoners remained in the
hands of the French.
French forces supported by Ameri-
cans and Moroccan divisions, after
several hours of artillery preparation
yesterday attacked the German posi-
tion between the Disc and Aisne rivers
the German war office announced to-
day.
(By Associated Press)
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN
FRANCE, Sept 3-Localization in the
activity of the infantry in the past
two days has given the appearance of
the REIMBURSEMENT Of the pressure
on the flying German lines from the
Somme to Scissors. The altered face
of the battle is due to changes in the
conditions of the ground and tactics.
The fighting has been continued to
comparatively short sectors north of
Scissors, north of Noyon and Nesle
where engagements of the utmost i'm
portance have been in progress in
which the allies have gained advan-
tages that explain the enormous sac
rifices the Germans made to hold
them off at those points.
North of scissors, General Mangin's
forces after three days and furious
combats in which positions were TAX
en- and retaken several times, have
pushed forward on the plateau that
overlooks the valley of the Ailette, be-.
citadel of Laon, one of the stoutest
pillars in the German secondary line
of defense may plainly be seen.
Smash Prussan Guarc.
The French and Americans met
around Juvigny the elite of the Ger
man army, grenadiers of the Prussian
guard, picked storming battalions and
hardy mountain infantrymen They
of iriu tolx
enormous death roll from their ranks
and sending a goodly number of cap
tives to the rear. The Associated
Press correspondent saw a column of
these prisoners filing back over the
plateau to the west, where white
wood crosses over fresh graves
marked the scene of other recent de-
feats. Some were young, but all were
sturdy and humiliation and deppres-
sion showed in their faces, rather than
the satisfaction exhibited by other
prisoners over the final release from
the inferno of war.
The Americans cooperated in the at
tack on Juvigny with the type of tanks
which the French have named Chars
D'Assaut" or shock cars. These en-.
gines of war have been called "armor-
pleness of troops afoot and they ad.
vance readily into the enemy's posi-
tions, dealing death with grusome
profusion from their quick fierce lit
tie cannon. One of these cars, man.
ned by French lieutenant killed 200
Germans, before Juvigny. He had
just abandoned a damaged tank to
take the place Of a wounded man in
nil
to stay by the disabled car, was un.
able to resist the enthusiasm OF the
charging troops past his abandoned
post and fell in with a platoon of
Americans short of officers. The pi.
lot showed them the route and fought
with them all the afternoon.
Americans Are Fighters.
Its good to see how those Ameri.
cans fight" this boy said to the cor.
respondent I'VE are glad to fight
with them. Together We will get the
Germans"
Very severe fighting has been going
on also north of Noyon, along the
News river and the canal Du Nord and
around Nesle. After forcing the last
fortified centers of resistance around
Roye and Chaulnes. the French ar
rived at these points, confronting nat
ural obstacles which the Germans
utilized to the best advantage.
The course of the river Somme and
the canal running parallel before the
front east OF Nesle offered a double
water line, with marshy ground be
tween. Fording there was so diff
cult that the roads must be used ane
the Germans concentrated artillery
and machine pun fire m all tho roaNc