The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-07-31
AMERICANS HOLDING
STRONG AGAINST THE
HUN COUNTERPART
Pershing's Men Add Another Big Sue
cess to Their Splendid Victory
Won at Sergy
NO ABATEMENT OF BATTLE
Germans Apparently on Eve of At
tempting to End Their Retreat.
Huns Offering Tremendous Re-
sistance Which Has Materially
Slowed Down the Allied Ad-
vance-Enemy Efforts to
, Take Rheims Desperate
But Futile

Take Rheims Desperate
But Futile
American troops fighting north of
Rheims salient, 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 village againts counter-at-
tacks.
Notwithstanding continued heavy
opposition by guns, machine guns and
large numbers of the enemy, soldiers
from the Middle Westerh and Eastern
States drove their line northward
from Sergy Tuesday through dead
ly German barrage for a distance of
about two miles and were resting at
night on the slopes approaching the
woods beyond the town of Nesles.
Where they stood at last accounts the
Americans formed the apex of the
lOng line running across the salient.
While the bitter fighting was in
progress between the Americans and
Germans the French troops on both
sides of the fighting front also moved
forward 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 shellng, but thus far
lineffectively, the menacmg Allied line
before them.
Prussian Guards and Bavarians
were in the thick of the fighting
throughout Tuesday, but again they
were out-manoeuvered, and outfought
by hte Americans 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 actios seems
drawing to a close. Violent counter
offensive measures against their an
tagonists already are in progress by
the Germans over most of the British
front, and seemingly, ror the present
at least, the Allied advance has been
materially slowed down.
Further Gains
Further gains have been made by
the Allies, including the Americans,
but only after the birterest kind of
fighting. And these gains have been
considerably lessin extent than those
of previous days, before the Germans
stlffened their retreating armies by
rushing numerous fresh divisions to
their aid and adding greatly to the
force within the fast disappearing
pocket, between Soissons and Rheims
Forced Back by Huns
AS result of violent counter at
tacks delivered with huge effectives,
the Germans have been able to force
the falling back of the Americans
and French, on several positions, but
nowhere were they able to find a spot
weak enough through which they
could penetrate the Allied line. Stand
ing firmly, and giving ground only un-
der absolute necessity, the Allied
troops everywhere have exacted a
made prisoners from the Germans in
their every effort partly to retrieve
their losses Of ground.
Heavy Fighting
Particularly heavy has been the
fighting in the center of the salient
and on the right mad left anchor
points of the salient resting respec-
lively southwest Of Rheims and south
of scissors. 1t is still on the two an
chor points that the Germans are
keeping most watchful eye, fearful
that the Allied troops may yet press
back the line and threaten the armies
manoeuvers for the Germans are not
yet far enough out Of the pocket to
have passed the danger of such con-
tingency.
Americans Galners
In the center of the pocket north
Of the Ourcq river the Germans in a
counter attack drove the Americans
out Of Clerge but this slight gain was
more than overcome later by the pen
etration of the Americans northward
from Sergy Beugneux, lying on 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 Rozoy in their possession, they
still hold vantage points for small
turning movement toward Fere,
which, if successful, would give them
= goodly number Of prisoners.
Failed to Take Rheims
Southwest of Rheims the Germans
delivered violent attack against the
French from both sides Of St. Eu-
phraise. Their effort to capture the
village, however was futile although
they pushed their line slightly for
ward on the west side of it.
Southwest Of Ypres the Australian
troops are keeping up their attacks
against the Germans and hn e cap
tured the town of Merris and with it
100 prisoners and number of Trench