Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
j. s. men RETAKE
TOWNS FROM FOE;
DRIVE HUNS BACK
Large Force of Americans En-
gagged in Battle.
MORE PRISONERS ARE TAKEN
Y,nks Cooperate With French in
counter-Attack Between st. Agnan
and La chapelIe-M ontbodon
and Force Germans to Fall
Back-Enemy's Drive


With the american Army on the
Marine. July 17-French and American
forces fighting together have recap
tured the village of st. Agnan, Hill 223
to the northwest, and La ChapeIle-
MontAodon.
In cooperation with the French the
Americans launched a heavy counter
attack during the morning between
these two villages, driving the enemy
steadily back.
The Americans have also recaptured
Fossoy and Crezancy, which were
taken by the Germans when they first
crossed the Marine.
tiany Americans in Battle.
The American troops in the bend of
the Marine, the Fossoy region, improved
their positions during the night. At
one place they drove the enemy across
the river. The number of prisoners
taken by the Americans was increased.
On the American right the French
made rapid progress, and all through
the section the Germans were fiercely
attacked by the allies, with the result
that they have withdrawn for a con-
siderable distance.
Many Americans in Fight.
Comparatively large forces of Amer
leans have been engaged, especially in
the region of Descrivec, where they
were brought up to support the attach
ing French. Within short period the
Americans were holly engaged in the
fighting.
Terrific Fight on Marine.
With the French Army in France,
July 17.-Mareuil-le-Port on the
Marine, was the scene during the morn
ing of terrific fighting, in which French
and American troops were resisting
most valiantly against heavy odds.
Yanks and French Win.
Paris, July 17.-French and Ameri-
can troops again hold the heights domi-
mating the Marine valley. These were
regained by dashing counter-attacks,
which carried the allied troops back
into st. Agnan and La Chapelle-Mon-
thOdOn.
The driving power of the new Ger
man offensive having been broken on
the first day by the remarkable defense
of the French and American troops.
the kaiser sought by violent thrusts to
increase their local successes, the war
office announced tonight.
Fight for Every Foot.
Desperate fighting is reported in sew
eral sectors of the new battle front,
particularly south of the Marine, where
ground was given only foot by foot,
when the allied line was obliged TO
bend back.
The German offensive has taken on
great scale, equal to that launched
on March q, says dispatch filed from
the Marine battle front by the CORE
spondent of the Temps. Fighting con-
tinued, the dispatch says, in violent
storm of thunder and lightning. The
weather was clearing at noon.
Allies Are Confident.
An impression of confidence through
out the armies is indicated by the
latest dispatches from various parts of
the battle front.
Elite German armies are engaged
along the 60 miles of fighting front. the
correspondent adds, they including
three divisions of the imperial corps
guards, with picked regiments from
Bavaria. Wurttemburg, Saxony and ST.
lesian Prussia.
Paris Statement.
Paris, July 1.-THE war office is
sued this statement:
The Germans, who have not been
able TO resume their general attack,
broken by us, made violent efforts TO
increase their local successes. Both
in the morning and afternoon the bat
tie was particularly desperate south
of the Marine. Enemy forces attempt-
cd To ascend the river Our troops re-
tarded' the advance of the enemy. de-
Tending the ground foot by foot: they
have maintained their positions on the
line of Oeuilly-Leuvrigny.
''On our part we counter-attacked
The enemy on the front of st. Agnan-
Ia,Chapelle- Monthoden. Our troons
caTtured these two places and carried
their line on to the heights which DOM
mate the Marine valley in the region
of Bourdonnerie' and Closmilon.
Between the Marine and Reims the
Franco-Italan troops repulsed several
lcnemy attempts to conserve their DO
iSitions.
"Eas' of Reims the Germans began
again violent artillery preparations,
followed by attacks at several points
on the front. A powerful effort in the
direction of Beaumont-sur-Wes este
Ifailed to debouch from Prunay. In
the sector of Suippes two attacks
made to the west of the river came
TO nauSht under our fire.
"'The struggle was not less spirited
in the regions north of Crosnes and
"9st Of TahUre, where the enemy also
80 frvNrywhere his efforts were
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