Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-01
Strike on Three Mile Line
Huns Must Fall Back
Or Be Cut Off.
BULLETIN

over a lO-mile front between
Buzancy about four miles
south OF SOiSsOnS, 10 Seringes,
north OF Fere-en- TardenOis.
The result was Il considerable
advance and the wiping out OF
the elbow in the line at 0uchy-
Let Chateau, according TO advic-
eS TO the EeYening Standard
this afternoon.
With the American Army on
the Aisne-Marne Front. Aug. /,
= A. M.-(By the Associated
Press Franco American
forces on the main battle front
continued yesterday the process
OF Strengthening out the line.
They scored advances i'll this
EFFORT. the Americans pushing
beyond Sergy TO within two kill
Ometers of Chamery.
The allied forces effected
their progress against stub
born German resistance.
Chamery, the town the Amer
leans now are approaching,
marks the spot where Lieuten-
ant Quentin Roosevelt fell to
his death recently with his air.
plane.
The Germans used less artillery
late yesterday against the attacking
forces on this front, depending
more upon their machine gunners
for defending their lines. This
fact, coupled with stories of pris-
oners and deserters tends to
strengthen the belief that they are
planning a withdrawal to new po-
sitions along the river Vesle.
A deserter who came into the
lines last night declared that or
ders had been issued for series
of retrogade movements until Fts-
mes, on the Vesle, had been reach
ed.
(By the Associated Press.)
American and French troops have
begun a turning movement that. il
successful, viii compel a German
retirement over wide sector east
of F'ere-En-T -TaFdenois, at the center
of the Soissons-Reims salient
They have attacked on a front Of
over three miles on each side of the
village of Nesles, the apex of the
allied wedge north OF the Ourcq
Their greatest advance was toward
the east, where the Americans
pushed on some distance from the
town Of sergy and approached
Chamery
Although the announcement OF
the purpose OF the attack was the
Strengthening out Of the line be
tween Seringes and Cierges, this is
really secondary to the outfianking
of the Germans to the southwark.
The enemy is holding strong posi-
tiOns at ROncheres and St Gemme,
where his line is still less than five
miles from the Marine, and a con-
tinued advance between Nesles and
Cierges would force him 10 fall
back to escape being cut of from
the rear
This seems to be the only sector
where the allies are attacking with
their infantry. Reports from the
front tell of heavy artillery fire
along the line between Scissors
and Reims
Line Is Strengthened.
With the American Army on the
Aisne-Marne Front Wednesday,,
July 31-(By the Associated Press.)
American and French troops
launched an attack Wednesday aft
eGnoon from Seringes 10 Cierges,
on the center of the Marne front,
for the purpose Of Strengthening
the line and demolishing harbed
wire entanglemcuts which the Ger
mans have placed through the hills,
forests and open places.
The Germans Wednesday used n
new gas having a wIate fame and
smoke
The allies brought into action
their heavy artillery, their avia-
tors and patrols having reported
mile after mile of harbed wire
standing along the German lines.
The heavy guns soon found the
range of the entanglem Some
enemy infantry had dug in behind
the wires. but the lines were for the
most part named by machine gun
ners.
The German artillery reply con-
sisted chiefly Of shells from the us
and l05s. The machine guns. with
the heavier pieces indicated. were
active in an effort 20 prevent an
allied advance.
The purpose Of the American and
French attack which was in a
rorthcasterly direction. is probably
for the purpose OF outAanking the
Mcunicrc wood and i'm cutting off
the blunt edged salient in the line
between Romiugy and Cierges. This
salient was made more acute by
the American advance north from
Cierges 20 Seringes.
Day OF Hard Fighting.
London, Wednesday July 81
Yesterday was "a day Of sheer hard
in-and-out fighting on the Ameri-
can front. telegraphs Reuters cor
respondent on the front north OF
the Marine. lie thinks that the final
capture of Seringes by the Ameri-
cans was an especially creditable
achievement.
After the Americans took the VII
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