Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-31
GERMANS CAPTURE
SCISSORS. BUT ARE
HALTED At RHEIMS
Wedge Is Driven Eighteen
Miles Into AiSne Front Be-
fore FoCh'S Army Of Maneu-
yer Stops PruSSian Hordes

NEW YORK, May SO.-Summary OF
European Cables 10 the Associated
s.)-General Foch's reserves have
begun to come into action in the fight
against the powerful German thrust
southwark from the Aisne and the enc
my is nnding his progress increasingly
difficult in consequence.
Again the allied TANKS are standing
firm and while scissors has been lost on
the west, Rheims is still holding out on
the easterly edge of the battle front
The chief progress of the Germans
revealed in today's official reports was
in the center of their advance, where
some three miles additional ground have
been covered from Loupeigne, twelve
miles north of the Marine, to Fere-En-
Tardenois.
/ The blunt edge of the German wedge
! is shown to run here from Fere-Ep-
Taddenois. about 10 IL miles directly
east to Vezilly. 10 - miles southwest
/ of Rheims.
Along this line the Germans ara
about eighteen miles south Of the
Chemin des Danes, giving them pene-
tration of approximately that distan<s
| at-the beginning of the fifth day of
their offensive.
The steadiness of the allied TANKS
under the heavy German pressure is
,
the Paris official report. The Germans.
for instance made attempt after az
tempt to debouch from scissors after
gaining that town but the determined
French in the outskirts prevented the
enemy from achieving this object
To the southeast, the French reserves
! are coming into play and here the allies
| are resisting the enemy. in engagements
! of extreme violence along the road from
scissors to MISUNDERSTANDING, seven
and half miles southeast of Scissors
Fere-En-T ardenois. I-2 miles south
west of Hartennes-E apparently
| marks the limit of the German advance
toward the southwest, with VeMlly
10 1-2 miles eastward, representing the
extreme southeasterly progress of The
enemy. ......
! From Vezllly, the front trends north
| eastward. BrouiHet is tbs next point
| mentioned In. the official conmunique
| and 1t lies 3 IL miles north Of Veziily
and only Slightly to the east OF a NORTH
| and-south line running through the lat
| ter town.
Brcuillet is thirteen miles southeast
| of Rheims and along the ten-mile line
I from that point to Thillois, three miles
! east of Rheims, and thence trending
northeastward above the cathedral city,
the Franco-British defensive line is re-
! ported to have broken all the German as
: saults and to have maintained the front
( intact.
scissors fell to the Germans after a
! fierce fight in the streets of the city
/ for several hours. and the French were
last reported holding tenaciousiy to the
western suburbs. The enemy advance
1 10 scissors has not yet affected greatly
the French line eastward from Mont
dider, which the Germans apparently
hope to bend back by their success on
the Aisne. The curve in the battle lins
! northwest of Rheims has been wiped
out and from scissors eastward the line
runs southeast and then east into the
Champagne.
In the center of the forty-five-nile
front where the German progress has
been greatest, the enemy forces are
near Loupeigre, four miles north OF the
river Ourcq and twelve miles north OF
the Marine The fighting is most entire
" on territory untouched by the var
since 1914 Berlin, in its latest report
claims the number of prisoners has IL
| creased to $4,000.
Apparently the Germans have used a
/ large part of their reserves in the Of
I fensive across the Aisne. as they, have
( not taken advantage of the movement
! here to strike elsewhere on the northern
front as might have been expected. TIE
| course of the fighting Wednesday iE6i-
/ Gates the possibility that the German
| crown prince will try TO strike wssi-
ward along the Aisne, instead of at
! tempting to force mis- way nearer atue
Marine.
Except for some sharp fighting at
/ Cantigny where the Americans have re-
I pulsed NGerman counter attacks against
their new positions, there has been lit
/ tie fighting on the line north of SOS
SONS. \ local German attack agaInSL
the French north of Mont KENNEL on
the Lys ba ttleield was repulsed COM
pletely. -