The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-06

The communique follows:
 Section A-In the course of patrolling activity in Picardy and in the Chateau Thierry region we captured prisoners.
 Tn Picardy a machine gun was also taken. hostile planes which approached our lines near Vaux and in the Vosges were driven back by our fire
 Our troops co-operated with the Br,t- ish in their attack made today.
 Section B-Near Cantigny one of our raiding parties this morning encountered an enemy raiding party of 70 ready to start out. Twenty five of our men pene. trated the enemy's wire, killing at least 20 Germans, woundlng others and captur. ing three with machine gun.
 JULY ? ATTACK
 Further oetails are now available con corning the German counter attack i'll the vicinity of Bois de la Roche in She early morning of July ?. The attack broke down completely under our artl!. lery, rifle and machine gun fire. Besides inflicting heavy losses in killed an1 wounded, our troops took 40 prisoners These were included in the total of 5ti previously reported. For sometime after the counter attack the enemy kept up , continuous harassing fire on our from lines and during the day of July 2 inter mittent fire on our front line and ol points in our rear areas. Our own bat. teries were equally active.
 AIR FORCES ACTIVE
 The German air forces were also ac- tive, but met considerable opposition from our ajrplanes. whose activity is in creasing. Conflicts occurred of whici the results have not been reported Il the German rear areas troops were 1T position around Bonnes wood and neal Givry, Epiaux and the Picardy farm During the night of July to July 1 hostile infantry showed some slight ac tivity, directing bursts of machine gur fire on the right of our line and sending out patrol which attempted to occups house north of Vaux. The patrol was easily driven back. At the same time t9ye of our own men penetrated the Germa ' lines in the same region and broughi back two prisoners. Throughout tn, night the hostile artillery shelled oui front and rear positions on the right ol our line using more than the usua amount of gas. American artillery vlg. OrOuSIN TcDiiSu )uil tilt 0dy OI uis 8 there was some machine gun fire ant snping of the right half of our sector but aggressive ness, as was shown by thu enemy was developed mainly by his al forces Once again, however, the Amer ican planes showed themselves able tt cope with the situation driving some o the German machines back over theil own lines,
 PICARDY SECTOR
 "In Picardy the day extending iron noon, June 90. to noon. July l, wa: marked only by the aggressiveness O. the enemy's airplanes. The German ma chimes were more active in combat thar has been the case recently. They were fired on by our planes and anti-aircraf' batteries. No results are as yet re ported The enemys artillery fire wa! of moderate intensity and was concen trated only on some of our positions 1T the vicinity of Broyes and Villers Tour nelle. Very few shells fell on our frot.' lines His machine gun fire, originating mainly from the vicinity of Chateat Jenlis, was directed principally on oui lines near Cantigny
 MULHOUSE SECTOR
 Tn the Mulhouse sector July 1, the feature of the day was the attempt of the enemy to raid our trenches af.- CT artillery preparations. In connec- ton with this our advance positions between the Doller river and Balsca- willer were heavily bombarded pe- tween o'clock in the morning and o'clock in the morning. The bombdrd- ment involved the use of a very larSi number of shells of small, medium ant large calibre, but our casualties were exceptionally light. The raid it5ell was entirely repulsed by our counter barrage. Besides the artillery activity on both sides connected with the at tempted raid much shelling occur ec during the day. The most notable con centration on the part of the enemy was one placed in the vicinity of the Doler river shortly after noon. Oui own batteries in conjunction with the French artillery were active along tn, whole font. The German machine guns kept up continuous fire from tho direction of Pont D'Aspach and Burn. haup Le Haut. Between o'clock 1T the mornings and o'clock in the eve ming a number of German planes cir cled over our lines, and over the enc my's advanced positions. Some pene. trateG our lines but were forced bacf by anti aircraft batteries in our req. areas. During the night the enemy of fered a particularly fine exhibition oi signal lights, including 300 flares ani rockets at various points along ths front and red and yellow balloons. Car rier pigeons were seen flying from hi, front to to his rear positions. Oui infantry was active in patrol and raid