Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-29
FRENCH HURL RESERVES
INTO BATTLE OF AISNE

Continued from Pase One !
"An attempted enemy raid between
Givenchy and La Bassee was re.
pulsed"
"A hostile attack south of the
Ypres. Confines Canal against one Of
our posts was repulsed after sharp
fighting.
"North of Albert, in the neighbor.
hood of Ayette. east of Robecq and
northwest of Merville. hostile artil.
lery was active.
East of Arras and south of Lens
there was increased artillery activ.
ity."
Reserves in Action
French reserves have been hurled
into the battle of the Aisne, along
the vesle River, putting the breaks
on the German offensive on the
Allied center.
The Allies still hold the plateau to
the northeast of Scissors. command
ing the confluence Of the Vesle and
the Aisne and the heights south of
Bordant.
On the right flank the British are
astride the Aisne- Marne Canal, hold
ing the heights fanking it on the
southwest.
Allied reserves were brought up
in perfect order. The enemy has al
ready hurled thirty-five divisions into
the battle. General Foch's problem
now is to re-establish the equilibrium
of the center, in the region of Fismes.
The Kaiser's soldiers crossed the
Vesle River on a bridge Of corpses,
after a most furious struggle around
Fismes, says a dispatch from the
Aisne front. The Germans are now
standing face to face with the Allied
reserve armies in that zone.
Americans in Fighting
American troops have taken part
in the great battle raging between
Rheims and Scissors. Correspond
ents with the French troops de-
scribed the gallant part that Amer
lean regiments are playing. They
were brought into action with the
reserve force called upon to help
stem the German advance.
The Americans took part in coun-
ter-attacks that were launched in the
face of great clouds of dense poison
gas sent over by the Germans.
Premier Clemenceau, of France, has
gone to the battle front. said a dis
patch from Paris today. Ut is as
sumed that the French Premier has
gone to the Aisne battle front. now
the critical field of the struggle.)
Berlin's Claims
. The Germans have penetrated a
maximum depth of about eleven
miles into the Allied positions on the
Aisne front, according to the claims
of the Berlin War Office in its yes
terday's and last nights reports. The
capture of $4,000 prisoners also was
claimed. The maximum penetration
was attained at only two points in
the center of the new drive.
A Wolff Bureau telegram filed in
Berlin on Tuesday. in giving an ac-
count of the fighting along the
Chemin des Danes (Aisne 'front.'
briefly mentions that among the
prisoners taken from the British are
a number of American doctors.
The enemy advance is in the shape
of double triangle.
The larger ones base extends from
Berry -au-Bac, a distance of about
twenty -cne miles in an air line. Its
apex is on the southern bank of the
Vesle, where thu Germans have
crossed the Chemin-des-Dames and
the Ailette. Aisne and Vesle Rivers
The other triangle has for it's base
the nine mile front from Berry-au'
Bac to Brimont.
Official Reports
The text of last nights statement
from the French War Office follows
Last night and today the enemy,
taking advant ,g, of his numerical
SUP eriority, renewed his thrust
more strongly toward the south
west of Scissors. On our left we
counter attacked vigorously,
stopped the German advance and
broke up attacks on the heights of
Neuville- Margival and Vregny.
} northeast of Scissors, and on the
heights in the region of CRY, SAILS
; ogne and Vasseny, dominating the
Vesle Valley.
The principal effort was directed
,, toward rolling back the center on
,, the line Of the Vesle. which the
! Germans succeeded in crossing at
, several points, notably in the re-
> gion of Bazoches and Fismes.
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