The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-07-17
49, AMERICAN SOLDIERS
HURL GERMANS BACK
ENEMY ADVANCED NOT MORE
THAN 3 MILES ANYWHERE
French and Americans Recapture Two
Towns and Reestablish Their Lines
Dominating the Valley of the
!, Marne-Germans on South Bank
- of, Marne in Grave Danger
Germans Unable to Attack
Generally

Paris, July 16-At the conclusion
Of the second days fighting, it is safe
to state that the Gcrm-n offensive on
the 65 mile f:ort from Chateau
~ !hierry to Mass!ges in Champagne
has proved a allure. At no pla.:c has
the enemy succt eded in advancing
more than lriles, Already he has
lost his initial cash. His efforts row
are reduced TO local Attempts. Late t.
night the war office was able TO an
nounce the recarture by the sfr ,ch
and Americans of the towns of St.
Agnan-la- Chapelle and Monothodon,
and the re-establishment of their
lines upon the heights dominating the
valley of the Marne. This new victory
came as brilliant climax to days
of incessant counter thrusts and the
fact that the important dominating
positions are again in the hands of
in which the Germans find themselves
S3n the south bank of the Marne. "Dur-
ing daytime" said General Petain in
his night bulletin from headquarters,
the Germans, unable to attack gen
orally, endeavored to increase their
local success"
the very use of the word "unable"
shows the French high command con-
slders the foes major scale effort
definitely stopped and is confident the
Franco American forces will continue
to pin the invaders down where they
are, and ultimately sweep them back.
The only tactical advantage gained
by the attackers lies IN slight gains
to the west of Rheims threatening to
pinch off the Rheims salient with the
famous 12-mile elevation dominating
the plane.
Expert estimate is that 35 Ger
man divisions already have been en-
gagged. Sixty-five per cent of Luden
dorff's total effectives have been
brought into action for the most in
significant gains.
The bloodicst fighting took place
, Germans tried to break through to
Grand. Later the Ger
on the Marquises farm, all of which
broke down with the heaviest losses.
'the Teutons streaming back, leaving
the ground strewn with dead Hun
dreds of corpses were counted on this
field of combat. The Boise-dc- Nau
roy was turned into vcritablc char
mel house.
Late today there were signs of
the battle spreading castwards. 1t
is presumed that the kaiser's heir has
been forced to call in reserves from
the Bavarian crown prince.
In no previous offensives this year
have the Germans gained so little
ground on their first day or lost so
many prisoners. The result is that
there is marked depression of their
morale; some dispatches go so far as
to say that the enemy's spirit ac-
tually seems broken by the punish
ment dealt from the hands of the very
troops whom they thought they could
crush like chaff-the "untrained"
Americans.
Latest adviccs as to the strength in
which the drive was started are that
easily half million troops have been
engaged on the first day, with almost
as many in the support positions, so
that the Americans and French, as
well as some Italian units, have sue
ccssfully met and checked nearly a
million of the kaiscr's fighting men.
Significant of the effect of yester-
days stonewall defense is the fact
tnc enemy did not attack during the
night. Today's assaults, while still
powerful and furious, have not near
ly the punch" of the initial on
slaught", fact that augurs we'll for
the ultimate outcome of this battle.
W-C