Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19
ALLIES HURL
THE HUNS BACK
ABOUT SIX MILES
Americans Take 1000 Prisoners,
so Guns And, With French,
Capture 90 Towns
ALLIED OFFENSIVE
LAUNCHED YESTERDAY
Americans Go Over The Top
With A Cheer. Take Thirty
Machine Guns

Americans. in cooperation with the
French, early yesterday morning
launched the biggest offensive OF the
Allies this year against the western
side of the Aisne-M Marne salient. be-
tween Chateau-T Thierry and Soissons,
on a front OF twenty-five miles, max
ing an advance of three to six miles,
capturing several thousand prisoners
and score of villages and severely
shaking the grip of the Hun on the
whole region.
In the exclusively American sector
above Chateau-Thierry our soldiers
went over the top with "A cheer and
accomplished their tasks in fine
shape. The leapfrog tactics of the
Germans were eXcelled. each unit go
ing forward under barrage to its OBJ
jective and then being followed by
another to the second objective, and
so on. BY nightfall large section of
territory in the neighborhood of the
Clignon River was regained, and from
the fact that their headquarters was
Immediately moved into the new
ground it may be surmised that the
flag Will not be withdrawn. The
Americans took four thousand prison.
ers and captured thirty guns.
The enemy was taken completely
by surprise on the whole front, some
Of the German officers being found
asleep. In the north the French reach
ed tho Mont de Paris, within a mile
of Soissons. and in cooperation with
the Americans captured Vierzy, a few
miles to the south.
On the east of Rheims Prunay was
recaptured and the pressure on the
city much relieved by the attack in
the west Altogether the Allies ac-
complished in six hours more than
the Germans had achieved i'm three
days.
The move puts an end to the Ger
man drive and makes Rheims SAFE
the Huns losing several thousand
prisoners and about twenty guns,
the French tanks aiding in their dis
comfiture on the western side of the
Aisne-Marne salient, which has been
bent in by the vigorous attack
The American troops had carried
all before them by late in the after
noon, and had proceeded so fast that
calvary was thrown into the action
All the American headquarters staffs
last night were well inside the terri
tory which tn Germans held in the
morning
The Americans in the offensive in
the region west of scissors have
taken 1000 prisoners, 80 guns and
much other material which has not
vet been estimated.
An American division cooperating
with the French troops in their coun-
ter attack have captured the town of
Vierzy, about six miles south of Sois-
sons, and have advanced three miles
beyond the town, the advices add.
The entire offensive operation be-
gun in the morning by Franco-Ameri-
can forces on the front between the
Aisne and the Marne went even bet
ter than had been expected. The en-
emy was unable to Withstand the
shocks the Americans and their al
lies delivered and are still delivering
AS the whole German left flank is
menaced, the enemy must draw i'm his
troops from the Marine front or risk
their being caught where they are
This means that the finishing blow
possibly has been administered to HIS
dying offensive.
The towns of Torcy and Civry and
the Civry Wood were taken by the
Americans in their ADVANCE.