The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-01
FURIOUS GERMAN

CONTINUED from rage One.D
Noyon to Rheims. In the center,
Marine between Chateau Thierry and
Dormans while on the east the Franco
British line stands firm.
After the retirement to the line thru
Blerancourt and Epagny, the French
halted and in a series of furious at
the enemy forces. West of scissors,
too, the Germans have been repulsed
with great losses and for some ten
miles south of the town they have not
advanced more than several hundred
yards in spite of assault after assault
against the French defense.
Along the Ourcq, the Germans
gained near Ou1chy-Le-Chat and
threaten Chateau Thierry, an impor-
tant railway center on the Marine, 46
miles northeast of Paris.
Will Make Stand at Marine?
In the center where small enemy
forces have advanced southwark to
the Marine the French tactics in the
past few days apparently have been to
retire until the line of the. Marine of
heroic memories could be reached.
Standing on the Marine and with the
river in front of them the forces in
the center may attempt more strongly
to check the German onrush.
In advancing to the Marine the Ger
of the Paris-Chalon railway which
parallels the river on the south. The
railway has been. the most direct of
several rail supply lines of the Cham
payne and Verdun.
Rheims still holds out but little hope
is entertained that its defenders will
long withstand the German attacks
However, the allied forces there have
held the enemy for small gains for
three days. North of the city the
Germans have advanced only a few
miles since Monday.
The line eastward thru the Cham
payne to verdun is not yet affected
by the battle on the Aisne front.
Berlin Claims $4,000 Captives.
Since Monday the Germans have
advanced southwark from the Ailette
across the Afsne and the Oureq to an
extreme depth of twenty-six miles and
reached the Marine. Berlin claims the
number of prisoners is now $4,000.
Captures of war material are said to
include more than 400 guns and sew
eral thousand machine guns.
The German salient becomes more
sharply pointed as the advance south
ward has continued and its width at
the apex is now about ten miles. Ex-
tension of the battle line to connect it
with the Somme battle field and the
strong and vicious enemy attacks on
the west flank indicate the strong
probability that it will be the German
purpose to drive on toward Paris and
cut the capital off from Amiens and
the north rather than to strike east.
Have Given Up Cantigny.
Elsewhere on the western front, in
Guiding the American sectors, there
has been a decrease in activity. The
Germans apparently have given up for
the moment their violent counter at
tacks. against the new American posi-
lions at Cantigny.
Aerial activity by British aviators
is at high pitch: many tons of bombs
have been dropped on military tar
gets in the enemy area and % German
airplanes and two balloons have been
destroyed.
Greek troops in a brilliantly exc
cuted attack near Dorian on the
Macedonia front have occupied enemy
positions on a front of seven miles to a
depth of more than one mile, More
than 1900 Bulgarians and German
prisoners and much war material
were taken. The Greek infantry was
supported by French artillery.
London, June 1.-The German ar
til1ery was considerably more active
this morning in the sectors of villers-
Bretonneux, east of Amiens and Hebu-
| terne, east of Albert. it is announced