The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-06-07
At Fourth Position They Make
Their Presence Felt and Enemy
Discovers That United States
Troops Are Real "Scrappers"
OFFENSIVE IS TAKEN
AND NOT RELINoUISHED
Marines Do Gallant Work As Well
As Army Forces and Clear
VeuiIIy Woods Taking Heights
and Holding Them

NFW YORK, June 7-(Asso-
~ Ciated Press)-At three sec
tions of the long western battle
line yesterday American troops
took the measure of the Germans
and smashed them, while on a
fourth front, that of the Toul Sec
tor, the Sammies left their mark
upon the enemy.
One American offensive wasE
brilliantly carried through on the
Picardy front by the Marines,
who followed up the severe re-
pulse of the Germans west of the
Veuilly Woods by the Americans
on Wednesday night by an attack
OF their own along a front of four
kilometers. This attack carried
them into the German positions to
a depth of three and a half kilo-
meters, from which section they
cleared out the Germans, eaptur-
ing hundred and inflicting heavy
casualties.
start Bsfors Dawn
The attack was launched at quar-.
ter to four yesterday morning and In
three hours fighting the Marines had
reached their objectives. Reports from
the officers state that the Americans
fought like tigers, being hard to hold
back, even the wounded pleading to be
allowed to continue in the advance.
by seven clock the Marines had
cleared Veuilly Woods of its German
occupants and had begun to consoi-
date the gains, Advance parties OF
Americans fought to the east of the
wood for some time. One group Of
mounted uhlans, consisting Of thirty
five men, was cut of by the Sammies,
who killed thirty four and brought back
one as sample prisoner. Another
American party ran into a scouting pa
troll of eight Germans. "Dont let one
get away, one big American private
shouted, as the Germans ran. Amer
lean sharpshooters picked of every
German.
The Americans are pressing the Ger
mans so hard along this section of the
front that the enemy has been forced
to throw three new divisions Of his
best troops into the line in the last
three days.
Hold High Ground
Northwest of Chateau Thierry, on
kn
hold all the high ground of Importance.
This has been taken in a series Of
assaults, in each of which the Huns
their desperate counters have not re-
gained for them. Yesterday the Amer
leans added TO their gains, while the
French simultaneously attacked on the
left wing of the Americans, taking q
hundred and sixty prisoners.
This is an important sector, where
the Americans hold a section from near
Chateau Thierry north to Silly la Pote-
rie, where they join the French hold.
ing the approaches to the ViIlers de
COtterets forest, into which the Ger
! mans have been constantly striving to
break. The American and French lines
on both sides of Silly-le Poterie were
heavily shelled by the Huns yesterday,
but there were no infantry attacks
made by either side.
The Americans have seen their heav-
lest fighting near Chateau Thierry.
Here, holding one of the Marne bridges,
an American machine gun battalion
accounted for approximately thousand
Germans, their only losses being one
killed and a few wounded.
Marines Gain Ground
Further east, along the Marne, Amer
lean Marines, who had gained ground
on Monday and Tuesday, launched an
other attack. This assault was made
at five o'clock yesterday afternoon and
at nj shtfall the battle was still rag
ing, with the Americans gaining
ground.
On their Marne front and north of
Chateau Thierry the American pressure
has forced the Germans to heavily re-
inforce their positions, but at no point
attacked by the Americans have these
reinforced lines held. All reports from
this front state that the German casual
ties have been heavy hut that the