Evening star., 1918-06-10
AMERICANS AGAIN
WIN OUT ON Marine
Bombarded Also at Montdi-
dier, But Foe Fails to Send
Infantry.
AWAIT DAYBREAK ATTACK

By the Associated Press.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, June s.-Attacks by the
Germans in the Marine sector have
again been repulsed by the Ameri-
cans. who inflicted heavy losses on
the enemy. The French repulsed two
attacks against Hill 204. west of Cha
teau Thierry, the first at 10 o'clock
last night and the second at 3 o'clock
this morning. French troops captured
wood south of Bussiares last night.
Grenadier Guards. was identified by
the Americans for the first time yes
terday.
Americans Await Attack.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, June 9 (evening).-While
the Americans in the Montdidier re-
gion were subjected to a heavy bonn
against them developed during the
first phase of the new battle.
The Americans are waiting and
ready for whatever may happen, They
will resist to the utmost any on
slaught against the front they are
defending.
After night made red by the
crashing guns. it was expected that
the shock might come at daylight, but
apparently the Germans spread their
shells over a considerably wider front
than that attacked by the infantry.
By the Associated Press.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. June 9.-The artillery fire
on the Toul front has slightly dimin-
ished in the last twentyfour hours.
There has been little aerial activity.
May Decorate Whole Forte.
By the Associated Press.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, June st is understood
that the entire American force partic-
ipating in the second battle of the
Marine will be decorated by the French
government.
Except for lively machine gun firing
in the Bois de Belleau and intermit-
was comparatively quiet today. The
Americans have had breathing spell
and now declare themselves eager to
get on the Germans again.
Americans Aided Morale.
LONDON. June 9. British admiralty.
per Wireless Press.-The military sit
uation on the westernAfront is summed
up as follows by the London Observer
of today:
Nothing gave more comfort to the
French than the splendid fighting side
by side with them on the Ourcq Of
the American battalions. They proved
that the American people. reckoning
their numbers and fiber together. are
capable of becoming the greatest mil
itary nation in the world.
Tt,ncdar hoH
reached their limit and had even been
driven back here and there. They
had failed to reach Villers-Cotterets
or the lower course of the Ourcq and
they have since been securely held.
Villages have changed hands again
and again but final advantages in
the last few days have been nearly
always with the allies, and in these
recon9uering little actions British
troops. as at Bligny. near Rheims.
have signaiized themselves with the
best.
No Hope to Reach Paris.
the least hope of getting to Paris
as result of one battle. Their chief
purpose looking to the ultimately de-
cisive object of the whole campaign
was of another kind. But after the
first couple Of days of a success,
"hiSn LdEt Dccu DcyoHu IDS1T
expectations, they may well have
hoped. and they must still hope. to
come near enough to the capital to
bring Paris under the fire Of their
heavy guns. AS they have not suc-
ceeded in this, they are likely to turn
their next attention elsewhere with
out by any means giving up the
thought of renewing the threat to
Paris at a. later phase of those alter
mating movements.
1--WE must not think too exclusively
of Paris or of Amiens or of the chan
mel ports any more than of Rheims
or Verdun. Attenuation operations
on any of these sectors may be equal
ly serviceable to the final purpose of
the German plan. Chess has often
been compared with war. but it never
offered a more exact and vital anal
ogy than now. The campaign Is the
supreme play of all the German forces
against all the allied forces"