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| Adl SCI LULU VI piSScuL Oh0uSlV0
are the First, Second, Third and
and Twenty.eighth national guard. In
addition Forty-second national guard
is on the right flank-the Champagne
together with colored regiment
from the new Ninety-third division
/, The Twenty-siXth division Is COM
posed Of New England national guard
troops and the Twenty-eighth division
Is of Pennsylvania
| The Forty-second Is the Rainbow
division and the Seventy-seventh is
New York national army troops.
Official naming of the American
forces now battling in the great Of
fensive was given by Chief OF STAN
March today, in his weekly conference
| with press correspondents.
At the same. time he revealed that
the maximum penetration of the Fran
co-Americans is ten miles with gen.
erd penetration OF seven miles.
Nearly 10000 actual fighting
Americans are engaged in the main
drive.
The last official dispatches received
at the war department today declar-
ed the fighting was still in progress
with the capture of guns and prison
ers In very hopeful numbers.
Incidentally March stated we have
now shipped more than 100000
troops abroad.
The position OF the Illinois national
guard division which trained at Camp
Logan, Texas, was revealed as the
British training sector and it was
made known that a unit from that or
ganization took part with the Austral-
ians in their fight last week.
The Seventy-seyenth division was
revealed as in the line near Luneville,
operating as an American unit under
its own commander.
Captures Of prisoners, March ad-
mitted, follows closely press accounts.
The last official reports concerning
Scissors declared it to be under heavy
bonn bardment, with the allies very
close to the city. (This was a Friday
dispatch).
MARGINS general review of the stu
alton, was in substance as follows:
Last Monday the Germans began an
attack which covered a sixty mile
front About one-half of it was in the
very hilly country between Chateau
Thierry and Rheims and the rest of 1t
in the Champagne, extending from
Rheims to the Argonie
In the Champagne, the positions
were held by the French and by one
American division-the forty-second-
plus a regiment of colored troops from
the Ninety-third
The penetration there was slight
The Champagne district was under
charge OF the French general, Gour'
aud, one Of the most striking person
alities OF France. He wears five
blesse stripes. has lost one arm, is a
of 1aSc Cd oh OF yu1N
the French call Tres SolGat"-every
inch soldier.
Along the Marine between Chateau
Thiery and Rheims, the Germans made
an advance of four to FIVE miles on
there Is difficult, with hills and woods
This general movement has been
brought to standstill. The Germans
in this offensive, claimed they hid as
an objective the nut-cracker process
of squeezing off Rheims. which is very
well organized for defense, even to the
extent of house to house defense,
which had heretofore made It impos-
sible to get at. AS soon as the Ger
man advance between Chatter u-Thier-
ry and Rheims had bee brought to a
standstill. Foch struck hard along the
western side.
The front over which we advanced
was twenty-five miles.
The maximum penetration, as re-
ported officially, was to a depth Of ten
miles with a general penetration of
seven miles.
In this advance there were six |
American divisions and one regiment
of colored troops. (The regular col |
ored troops referred to above were on |
the allied right, but March did not |
designate the particular outfit between |
scissors and Chateau-Thierry).
The allied counter offensive is not |
an encircling movement. 1t is aimed !
at the chief supply line Of the Ger
mans, running into Chateau-Thierry |
and was delivered on the flank be- I
cause such a blow would cripple the |
Germans more than push up from |
south of the Marine.
A push from below would merely eive |
them an exit without crippling their /
supply line.
In his weekly talk with members of
the senate military committee today .
General March cautioned against over
optimism as a result of the spectacular
dash. He declared /
that many difficulties are still ahead
and TOO much must not De expected
The committee was told that the /
Germans appeared to have planned two
offensives-one against-the Americans /
and French to be closely followed by |.
one against the British.
The ability of the British to start a
strong counter offensive of their own
now. depends upon how far the Ger /
mans have been forced to withdraw
men and materials from that sector ;
to reinforce the lines where the
French and Americans are attacking.
War department officials admitted
1t is possible that the Germans claim
of 10000 prisoners is true, but it was
stated that If the Germans had taken
this number they had done II in the i
very early stages Of the fighting be I
fore the French-American counter i,
attack. The committee was told that 1
the country must rreuare for heavy