Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-30
ADVANCE CONTINUES
ENEMY RETIREMENT CONTINUES ORDERLY, EVERYWHERE AL LIES PRESSING THEM HARD;
 VILLAGES IN FLAMES BEHIND HUN LINES INDICATE RETREAT

UNDATED WAR LEAD, BY
 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 Notwithstanding the fact that the
 Germans have pow erfully
 strengthened their battle line run
 ming across the Soissons-Rheims
 salient with additional fresh re-
 serves and have stubbornly disput-
 ed further passage northward to
 the entente allied troops, the en-
 emy front has been compelled to
 bend back appreciably on all sides
 of the salient. except at the anch-
 or points resting Immediately on
 Soissons and Rheims.
 South of Soissons further wedges have been driven eastward into the enemy front down to the Ourcq river; eastward along the Ourcq river; east ward along the Ourcq French and American troops have crossed the stream at various points and ad- Vanced their line well to the north ward, while southwest of Rheims the allies have debouched from the wood ed sectors and gained the plains, not withstanding the violence of the en- emy's counter maneuvers. At. some points the Germans succeeded some what in checking the forward move ment, but nowhere were they able To bring it to g standstill.
 The retirement of the Germans still remains orderly, but everywhere the allied troops and especially the Amer jeans near Fere En Tardenois, are pressing them hard. Particularly bit ter fighting has taken place around Fere En Tardenois and at Sergy, both of which towns are now well in the hands of the French and Americans.
 At Sergy the Germans paid the
 Americans the compliment of rein
 forcing their battle line with two
 divisions of well-tried Bavarian
 troops, men whose courage prev
 iously has been tested when the
 tide of battle was going against
 the Germans. It was an effort eith-
 CT to destroy the Americans or to
 herd them back across the Ourcq.
 The effort resulted in failure
 The battle lines shifted back and forth and Sergy changed hands four times, but the Americans proved to be the masters of the picked enemy troops and finally drove them out and retained the village. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the Germans.
 The fighting in Fere En Tardenois also was of a sanguinary nature, the opposing forces fighting in close con tact through the streets of the town. but with the Germans being gradually driven back under the machine gun and ,~ffla ffro of 4ha and jeans or left weltering fin their blood from contact with the cold steel Of the allied bayonets.
 Immediately south of Soissons on the western edge of the salient the Germans strove heroically to hold back their enemies, in order to pre- vent the further flanking of SoissonH and the possible cutting off of large forces of their men fighting along the Ourcq south of Oulchy Le Chateau. Scottish troops, however, captured po- sitions in the outskirts of BuZancy, just to the west of the Soissons. Chateau Thierry road, while further south the French overcame the resist ance imposed against them. crossed the high road and took Grand Rozoy and Cugny and the Butte Chalmont.
 Southeast of Soissons, we'll in
 side the salient and at present far
 outside the immediate battle zone.
 various towns and villages along
 the SoissOns-Fismes railroad are
 said to be in flames. This seem
 ingly would indicate that the re-
 tirement of the Germans from the
 big pocket is to proceed still furth