The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-07-23
ALLIES WINNING;
WALLOP GERMANS
SHOCK TROOPS IN THE KAISER'S
LATEST BIG OFFENSIVE
ARE SWEPT BACK.
AN ADVANCE OF SEVEN TO
TIN MILES HAS BEEN REPORTED

American Power Is Being Felt in Eu-
rope. Is Found at Every Danger
GUS Salient, and Meets Repeated
Attacks With Invincible Courage.
The crack shock troops of the Ger
man army have tested the mettle of
the "green" American soldiers IN
France. and have found that it rings
as true as it did in the days of Wash
ington, Jackson, Grant and Lee. And
in the reverberating echoes Germany
hears the doom of her grandiloquent
scheme of world domination.
This, in substance, is the result of
the fifth great drive of the kaiser's
armies on the western front this year,
q drive begun Monday morning of
last week on a front of IS miles.
BREAK GERMAN LINE.
Eight hundred thousand picked
German shock troops hurled them
selves against the French and Ameri-
cans defending this sector of the
front. Preceding the attack was a
12-hour artillery bombardment,
shells reaching in some instances
cities and towns 35 miles behind the
battle front.
By all the laws of warfare this de-
LUCE of German high explosive and
gas shells should have wiped out all
traces of the allied defense zones and
sent the defending troops scurrying
to the shelter of the rear lines. But
when Ludendorff's masses of infan-
try swept forward in dense forma-
ton in the plan to drive into the very
heart of France, American and
French troops, seemingly springlng
from nowhere, closed with the gray
green ranks in a hand-to-hand strug-
gle and fought them to a standstill.
Sunday the French and Americans
broke through the German lines
northwest of Chateau Thierry and
advanced three miles.
Previous to the breaking of the
German lines the allies battled with
the desperate machine gunners, who
were moved down as the allied rein
forcements arrived.
Violent combats continue north
and south of the Ourcq and between
the Marine and Rheims. In spite of
violent resistance by the enemy the |
allies have continued to advance, the |
statement adds.
GREAT SLAUGHTER.
Side by side with the French vet |
Grams the Americans have fought all
week in one of the bloodiest strug- |
giles of the war. And the French, J
knowing that the advent of the Amer |
leans had overcome the handicap of
superior German numbers, set a wor- !
thy example. East of Rheims, which |
was about the center of the German
drive, the Germans were stopped with
great slaughter in the first lines of |
the allies, in fact, after six days Of |
the battle the German dead still are
draped by the thousands on the barb
ed wire of the French first line posi-
lions.
Six of General Pershing's divisions, |
or about 100000 American troops,
are fighting with the French in the
Aisne-Marne district.
The American troops engaged on
this front are the First, Second,
Third and Fourth regular divisions,
and the Twenty-sixth and Twenty
eighth national guard. The Forty
second national guard (Rainbow) is |
stationed in the Champagne region.
An unattached regiment of negro |
troops from the Ninety-third nation
al army division is in each sector.
PENETRATE SEVEN MILES.
At his weekly conference with
newspaper men at Washington Gen
eral March stated that official reports |
70 the war department showed a max
mum pentration by the Franco
american counter attack of ten miles
ana an average penetration of seven |
miles on twenty-five mile front
Inc war department has no adj |
wees wees that the city of scissors has
IaIIen, but it is known to be under
neaVy fire from American artillery. |
Inc latest German drive was in
tehded as a nut cracker opera |
uon' against the city of Rheims, Gen
JiSI March said. This drive had been !
uehnitely stopped when General Foch !
struck on the right flank of the Ger
man effort. The enemy had advance
gu Tour or five miles on twenty |
'nree mile front.
OBJECT OF ATTACK.
General March said that the OBJ
iectlVe of the Franco-American coun-
Tgr attack was the Soissons-C Chateau
merry railroad, which, the allied |
ttlplhmand has reason to believe, is |
t me principal artery of supply for
gion.
The French and American forces
b b.Cner are already on this road or
fave Ave 1t we'll under direct shellfire of |
tnelr artillery.
ro o1lcial advices confirm the press
teport that French corps in which
Lnnl,erlcan divisions were operating
n aaa captured $1,000 prisoners and
e euns and material Sin very helpful