Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-25
ADVANCE
OF ALLIES
kept UP
important Gains Made on Three
Sides Of U-Shaped Battle
Front Despite Violent
Counter Attacks.
BY Associated Press.

Violent German counter at.
.tacks and rear guard actions
in great strength still fail to
serve as barriers to the adj
vance on the Soissons-Rheims
salient.
They have aided in slowing
down the fast pace, but on the
three. sides of the now u
shaped battle front, important
gains have been made.
Driving slowly, but surely, south
of scissors, the American and French
troops have pushed their fronts fur
ther eastward toward that part OF
the Soissons-Chateau Thierry railway
line that is still in the hands of the
-enemy, and further south, along both
sides Of the Ohrcq river and the road
leading to Fere-En-T Tardenois, Ger
many's great storehouse for the sup
ply of her troops to the south, inn
portant penetrations into enemy-held
territory have been made until the
maximum point where the allies are
fighting near Coincy is about 1915
miles from their point of departure
last Thursday.
Fierce Resistance Met.
In the Marne region north OF Cha
teau Thierry the Americans and
French have met with the fiercest
kind of resistance, for the Germans
are striving hard to extricate large
numbers of the German forces and
save part Of the great number of
guns and quantities Of war materials.
The advantage in the fighting has
rested with the allied troops, who
have pushed on .northward past the
village of Epieds and ousted the Ger
mans from the greater part of the
Chatelet forest. The allies now hold
the villages Of Epieds and Trugny-
Epieds, which were captured by the
Germans and were recaptured
Wednesday in counter attack BY
the Americans. Pressing on north
ward the allies have driven their
front beyond Courpoil, which lies
about six and half miles northeast
of Chateau Thierry.
Along the Marne at several points.
notably in the region OF Charteves
and Jaulgonne and further east Of
Treloup, the allies have put the north
ern bank of the Marne further behind
them in advance and captured large
number>o cannon and machine guns
and considerable war materials.
British Give Valuable Aid.
In the region between the Marnc
and Rheims, where the German
crown prince has brought forward
large numbers of picked reinforce
meats, his warriors are meeting with
hard usage. Following up the adj
vances of the French and Italians OF .
Tuesday the British Immediately 10 Il
the southwest Of Rheims apparently
have begun a movement which posi-.
bly, portends good results.
Here the British have overcome
strong counter attack and violent
bombardment and struck the German
~. my dl NriSHy IOr goOdly gain.
This maneuver, if it is pressed to fur
.ther advantage, will seriously menace
the Rheims-Fismes railway, a scant
three miles to the north, and also
VIII tend materially to lessen the
width OF the mouth of the pocket
through which the Germans are en-
deavoring to retreat from the Sois-
sons-Rheims salient.
+. Gauged by the war maps, the new
inroads of the allied troops into the
German-held territory necessarily add
further to the extreme gravity of the
situation of the Germans inside The
huge pocket and with the long range
guns on both sides of the U heavily
shelling them far behind the actual
fighting fronts, with airmen bombing
them assiduously, and with the III.
fantry attacking them on all sides
with rifle and light gun fire, their sit
uation seemingly is a hazardous one.