The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-07-31
ARMIES
4 GAINED YESTERDAY
DESPITE EARLIER REPORTS AS
ISOLATED PRESS SHOWS
GAINS FOR ALLIES

The Associated Press gives the follow
ing review of the fighting Tuesday, in
which the Americans won further vic
tories, despite the fact that they had to
| give up some ground during the day.
Following is the review as given by the
! Associated Press:
American troops fighting north of the
Ourcq river in the Soissons-Rheims sa-
lient have enlarged their brilliant victory
of Monday at Sergy, where they cut to
| pieces divisions of Germany's picked
troops and took and held the villages
| against counter attacks.
Notwithstanding continued heavy OPP
position by guns, machine guns and
large numbers of the enemy, soldiers
from the middle western and eastern
| states drove their line n%orthward from
| Sergy Tuesday for a distance of two
miles and were resting at night On the
| slopes approaching the woods beyond the
town of Nesles. Where they. stood at
the last accounts the Americans formed
the apex of the long line running across
the salient.
While the bitter fighting was in prog
ress between the Americans and Ger
mans, the French troops on both sides
of the fighting front also moved for
ward for goodly gains northeast of Fere-
en-Tardenois and east of Sergy.
In the Nesles forest the Germans are
holding strong positions from which they
are Smelling, but thus far ineffectively,
the menacing allied line before them.
Prussian guards and Bavarians were
in the thick of the fighting throughout
Tuesday, but again they were outma-
neuvered and outfought by the Ameri-
cans and again suffered heavy casualties.
The Germans apparently are on the
eve of attempting to end their retreat
| from the Soissons-Rheims salient and
turning and offering frontal battle in
force to the entente allied armies.
The day of rear guard actions seems
drawing to a close. Violent counter Of
fensive measures against their antago-
nists already are in progress by the
| Germans over most of the battlefront.
Further gains have been made by the
| allies only after the bitterest fighting.
Standing firmly and giving ground only
under absolute necessity, the allied troops
everywhere haye exacted a huge toll.
Particularly heavy has been the fight
| ing in the center of the salient and on
| the right and left anchor points of the
salient resting respectively southwest of
| Rheims and south of scissors. 1t is still
on the two anchor points that the Ger
mans are keeping a most watchful eye,
fearful that the allied troops may yet
press back the line and threaten the
/ armies of the German crown prince with
the pincer maneuver, for the Germans
are not yet far enough out of the pocket
to have passed the danger.
In the center of the pocket north of
the Ourcq river the Germans. in a
counter attack, drove the Americans out
of Cierges, but the slight gain was more
than overcome later by the penetration
of the Americans enorthward from Sergy.
Beugneux, lying Oh the west side of the
pocket northwest of Fere-en-Tardenois
also was taken by the Germans, but later
the French and Americans recaptured it,
and with Grand Rozzoy in their posses
sion, they still hold vantage points for a
small turning movement toward Fere,
which, if successful, would give them a
goodly number of prisoners.
Southwest of Rheims the Germans de-
1ivered a violent attack against the
French from both sides of St. Euphraise.
Their effort to capture the village, how
ever, was futile, although they rushed
their line slightly forward on the west
side of it.
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