New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-08-09
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HUN COUNTERS
DRIVE GERMANS ACROSS AisNE
AND CAPTURE HAMEL AND
DERNANcOURT.
FOE LOSSES ENORMOUS
YANKEES COVER SELVES WITH
GLORY IN HANO.TO.HAND
FIGHTING At FISHES.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Paris, Aug. 6.-Pursuit of the Ger
mans continues and only a few Of the
enemy troops remain south OF the
Vesle, says the Havas Agency Mon
day. French patrols have crossed
the Vesle at Bazoches and al Jon
cherry. Allied troops hold the entire
southern bank of the Vesle near
Rheims. Stubborn resistance was
made by Prussian and Bavarian
guards between Muizon and Cham
pigny, but they were forced back, suf'
fering heavy losses.
The Americans covered themselves
with glory in the h~and-to.hand fight
ing in the streets OF Fisnies Sunday,
when they captured that German base.
The fighting is said to have been the
bitterest of the whole war, the Prus-
sian guards asking no quarter and be-
ing bayoneted or dubbed to death as
they stood by their machine guns.
The Germans succeeded only at a
great cost in getting behind the Aisne
from scissors to COnde-sur-Aisne.
They also lost heavily along the Vesle
from the Aisne to Rheims. The sup.
plies taken by the allies 10 only a
small part of what the enemy was
obliged to abandon. The entire coun.
try along the battle front has been
lighted up nightly by immense fires
consuming war material.
The French, who have gained a foot
ing north of the Aisne at scissors
and have occupied St. WAIST, menace
seriously the flank of the ~retreating
forces.
The Germans o are imposing
strong opposition to the further ad.
vance of the allied troops along the
Vesle river from the east of Scissors
to the region west of Rheims. Mean
time the main bodies of the enemy
army continue to make their way
toward the Aisne, to the north OF
which stream they hope somewhere tc
reach a haven of safety from the per
sistent onslaught Of the allied troops
which in less than three weeks have
all but blotted out the Scissors
Rheims salient.
1t is not expected that the Germans
will face their enemies south of the
Aisne. The hill region to the north Of
the Aisne-probably the old Chemir
des Danes battle FRONTS considered
the more probable sector on which
the crown prince will elect.
From Mesnil-St. Georges, west Of
Montdidier TO Breaches, the Germans
are retiring across the Avre. Theil
retrograde movement already has av
eraged two miles or a seven-mile
front. The French hold Breaches
have penetrated into HargicOurt ant
are on the outskirts of Courtemarche
The allies now control the heights
west of the Ancre and Avre rivers
Military experts have called the Avrt
the path to Amiens and the enemy
positions on the west bank we're very
important, If the drive for Amiens wal
to be continued.
Great quantities of guns and am
munition have been taken by the
French, American and British troops
south of the Vesle.
Washington, Aug. 5.-Allied tloopi
In the Aisne-Marne salient reaped 1.-THE
full fruits of victory" on Saturday
when the enemy, who met his sec
ond great defeat on the Marine, waf
driven in confusion beyond the line
of the Vesle," Gen. Pershing reported
in his communique.
The German retreat continues un
abated, with the allies everywhere ir
hot pursuit. Apparently, the situation
now has resolved itself into a rae fol
the northern bank of the Aisne river
by the Germans, who have been evict
ed from strategic positions along the
Vesle river, in the center of the line
and directly east OF Rheims, which
seemingly renders necessary that they
put the Aisne between themselves
and their purcuers 10 escape further
large losses of men made prisoner.
Just how large this bag of captives
is at present cannot be -eckoned, but
unofficial advices from Paris assert
that when the figures are made public
they will thrill the allied world. Gen
Pershing in his communication says
the Americans alone have taken 8,40(
prisoners, and, in addition, 1873 guns
American losses are reported compar
atively small.
After hard fighting the Americans
aided by the French, have succeeded
in taking Fismes, once Germany't
great ammunition and supply depot
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