Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-08
A AMERICAN MARINES CAPTURE
 BOURESCHES; PURSUE TEUTON TROOPS AND OCCUPY TORCEY
Twenty-Five Yankees Drive Two Hundred Huns From Defenses; Garry Out Bril- liant Assaults.
Bv RevIew Leased WIrel


 WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN PICARDY. June (By the Associated ssl.-The fighting last night north west of Chateau Thierry ragged with great fierceness for five hours. The Americans captured Bouresches and entered Torey. Twenty-Five Ameri- cans in Torcy engaged and drove out 200 Germans and then withdrew to the main line on the outskirts of the town
 A remarkable story is told of a con- pany of marines, all the officers of which. including the sergearts were put out of the fighting. < corporal then assumed command and the men pushed on and obtained their object i've
 Hundreds of French children lined the main roadway to Paris this after noon over which American and French ambulances were carrying Americsn wounded. The children waved their hands and cheered the Americans.
 No Americans Captured
 As far. as is known no Americans have been made prisoners by the Ger mans.
 Private John B Floci5en. of Olney. III. one of the first men to reach Ta-cv today. said:
 ''T never saw snch wonderful shirt. Not one of the fellows hasitated in the face of the rain of the machins gun fire. which it seemed impossible to get through Every Serman seemed to have a machine gun They fought like wild cats. bu the Americans were too much for them"
 As the result of the two attacks by the Americans against Jde enemy in the second battle northwes- Of Cha teau Thierry 300 prisoners were caD- tured and the Americans extended their line over front of about six miles to a depth of nearly two ani one-half miles.
 Losses Severe
 While the losses of the Americans necessarily have been heavy. owing to the nature of the fighting. the Ger man dead is piled three deep in places. A number of machine guns were added to the American booty. The German prisoners taken by the Americans. many of whom were mere boys, had only beein in the line for two days Some of them wore the white bands of the Prussian guard.
 Private Carl B. Mills, of Visalia. Cal. was in the first wave of Americans to go over the top in the wood to smoke out the Germans remaining there. He said that after his unit obtained is oh iective. many of the men went hack and filled the ranks of tieir qdvanc- ing comrades. All worked like clock work. he said. The favorite slogan was leach man get a German; lont let a German get you"
 Red Cross Heroism
 Many instances were related of the heroism of the Red Cross workers m braving shells in no mans land and gathering in or aiding wounded
 The correspondent today talked with a 19-year-old German prisoner who was sitting under tree eating American bread and drinking French wine The soldier said he had been fighting for year and a half. for the most part in Russia. He carried pic ture of his sweetheart on heavy card board. which he said had saved his life from an American bullet.
 The youth added that in Cermanv there was talk of millions of Ameri- can soldiers. but that nobody believed it. He did not know that it was the Americans opposed to the iernaas- He thought the troops were British as they wore English helmets. He add ed that the German soldiers no longer hoped to reach Paris. All of them were sick of the war anu he was glad he had been made prisoner
 The importance of the operations or