Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-25
|CROWN PRINCES RESERVES FAIL
 ID STOP ALLIES Franco Americans and Brit ish Maintain Upper Hand
 in Battle. CLOSING IN ON THE
 BOTTLED-UP HUNS, kaiser's Son Sacrificing Thousands of Men in Effort to Extricate
 His Men from Danger.
 0us Salient.
Associated Press Summary ]


 Violent German counter attacks and rear guarad actions in great strength still fail to serve the Ger man high command as borriers to the advance of the allied troops on the Soissons-Rheims salient. They have aided somewhat in slowing down the fast pace set by the allies at the commencement of the offensive Out nevertheless on the three side of the now 'U-shapaed lbaatle front further important gains have been made.
 South of Soissons the American and French troops have pushed their fronts farther eastward toward that part of the SoissOns-C Chateau Thierry railway line that is still in the hands Of the enemy and farther south, along obth sides of the Ourcq river and the road leading to Fere-enTardenois Germany's great storehouse for the supply of her troops to the south, important penetration into enemy held territory have been made until the maximum point where the allies are fighting near Coincy is about 10 1-2 miles from their point of de- parture Thursday.
 Resistance Is Stubborn.
 In the Marne region north of Chat eau Thierry the Americans and French have met with the fiercest kind of resistance for here the Ger man machine gunners and infantry men are striving hard to stay their progress in an endeavor to capture and also to save part of the great nf Dc war material which it is impossible to get out except by the high roads over the undulating and wooded country.
 The advantage in the fighting. however, has rested with the allied troops who have pushed on north ward past the village of Epieds and busted the Germans from the great CT part of the Chatelet forest. In this region the allies now hold the village of Epiets and Trugny.Epiets which were captured by the Germans and were recaptured Wednesday in a counter attack by the Americans.
 Capture Cannon and Stores.
 Pressing on northward the allies have driven their front beyond Cour- poll about six and one-half miles northeast of Chateau Thierry. Along the Marne at several points notably in the region of Chateves and Jaul- gonne and farther cast of Treloup the allies have put the northern bank of the ,Marne farther behind them in advances and captured .a large number of cannon and machine guns and considerable war material.
 In the region between the Marne and Rheims where the German crown prince has brought forward large numbers of picked endorsements to stay the British, French and Italians his warriors are meeting with hard usage. Following up the advances of the French and Italians Tuesday the British immediately to the southwest of Rheims have overcome strong counter attack and following it a violent bombardment and struck the German line t Brigny for goodly plan.
 Pocket Is Closing. This maneuver, if 1t is pressed, to further advantage will seriously menace the Rheims-Tismes railway, a scant three miles to the north and also will tend materially to 2essen the width of the mouth of the pocket thru which the Germans are endea- voring to retreat from the Soissons- Rheims salient.
 Gauged by the war maps the new inroads of the allied troops into the German-held territory necessarily adds further to the extreme gravity of the situation of the Germans in- side the pocket and with the long range guns on both sides of the heav- fly shelling them far behind the act ual fighting fronts with airmen bomb ing them assiduously and with the infantry attacking them on all sides with rifle and light gunfire their sit- uation seemingly is hazardous one.