Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-06-05

JecJlYeS, including Jne village VI I'd
tigny, and captured 200 prisoners.
Americans Take 200 Huns.
Washington, May 29.-American
troops in Picardy attacked on a front
of one and a quarter miles, captured
the village of Cartigny, took 200 pris-
oners, and inflicted severe losses in
killed and wounded on the enemy,
says General Pershing's cOmmunique,
made public at the war department.
The American casualties were rela-
lively small.
PershingS Statement.
The statement follows:
Monday morning in Picardy our
troops, attacking on a front of one
and one-fourth miles, advanced our
lines and captured the village of Can
tigny. We took 200 prisoners and in
f1icted on the enemy severe losses in
killed and wounded. Our casualties
were relatively small.
Hostile counter-attacks broke down
under our fire.
"In Lorraine and in the Woevre ar
tillery on both sides continued active.
Early in the day our aviators shot
down q hostile machine"
Take $1,000 Prisoners.
London, May 29.-The reports from
the battlefields of France, both off
cial and unofficial, show that the allies
have again suffered a setback.
They have lost all the ground in
the Chemin des Danes region so gal
lantly won by the French in the great
struggle from April to October, 1917.
The enemy has driven a wedge into
the allied line on front of some %
miles, and at last reports tremend-
Gus battle was continuing about Fis-
mes, the center of important allied
communications.
French reserves, however, were ar
irving to contest a further enemy ad-
vance at this point.
Up TO the present, according to the
German claim, $4,000 prisoners have
been taken.
A night report from Berlin stated
German troops have forced passage
Of the Vesle river on both sides of
Fismes.
Dead Fill River.
The German crossing of the Aisne,
according to details reaching here
from the front, was a CHASTITY mas
sacre.
The first crossing was made at
Pont Arcy, and others followed.
Hundreds of allied machine guns
were trained on the Teutons, whose
pontoons were turned into floating
pyres. The river was jammed with
corpses.
Gain Twelve Miles.
Fismes. on the Vesle, marks the
deepest point of the new wedge thrust
about twelve miles into the allied
front by the German crown prince. It's
Importance lies in the vital rail COM
munications which center there.
1t is a rail head on the ReimsCom-
piegne-Dieppe and Verdun-Reims-
Paris railways. These two lines are
the principal feeders of the allied
forces in the valleys of the Vesle and
the AiSne.
Correspondents at the front report
rive and have been thrown into the
battle, where their effect is being
felt"
French Counter-Attack.
Northwest of Fismes the French left
wing energetically counter-attacked
and stopped the German advance.
Enemy attacks were broken up on
49, bof~b+c Door Nouvilla c4,r NJ 70 ,cri-
val and Vregny, and northeast of
scissors, on the heights around CRY,
Salsogne and Vassemy, which domi-
nate the valley of the Vesle TO the
south.
Paris admits, however, that the en-
envy forced a passage across the river
at two points in the regions of Fis-
mes and Baroches, and it is this line
about five miles in length, that is the
focal point of the battle.
British Hold Foe.
In the Berry-au-Bac sector, held by
the British, the German advance has
been negligible, while the commu-
nique from Paris announces the crown
princes forces have been stopped
along the Vesle, although admitting
the river was crossed at two points.
Meanwhile in the Flanders region
the attacks undertaken by the Ger
mans Monday simultaneously with
their Reims- Soisons offensive have
failed.
Berlin claims capture of the town
of Vailly, the crater field nearby,
Pinon, Chavignon, Fort Malmason,
Courtroom, Cerny, Winterberg. Cra-
onne Villerberg, Cormicy, Cauroy and
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