Arizona republican., 1918-08-03
AMERICANS AND
 FRENCH AGAIN
 JUMP FORWARD
With Almost No Fighting Several Miles are Gained. Plans to Strike Hard Blow are Made.
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE AISNE- MARINE FRONT, Aug. ,. -(By The Associated Press, D. m.)- Another jump forward was made today by the French and Americans on the Aisne- Marne front. From one to two miles were gained. and with almost no fighting.
 Plans had been made to strike hard blows against the resisting German rear, but the German war council evi- dently had decided that the time was inopportune to fight, for when the all lies moved forward it was only to fol- low upon the trail of the retreating enemy.
 At few places there were sharp en- counters but they were nothing as compared with the terrible engage ments that previously had been fought or what was expected.
 French Cavalry Co-cperates The French cavalry operated near Dravegny about two and a half miles north of Coulognes. with the Ameri- can infantry close behind while an other detachment of mounted French | troops opened the way a short distance | to the west, with French infantry and American foot troops close up.
 The penetration by the French and Americans to the region of Dravegny would place them only scant eight miles southeast of Fishes, on the rail- road line between Soissons and Reims.
 To the westward the French reached the southern borders of the Loupeigne Mareuil and Aihuizy woods. and the French cavalry to the southern bor- | ders of the Moines wood
 Fight Over Quentin's Grave Occasional bursts of machine gur fire challenged the advancing line, but it was apparent early in the movement that the Germans had gone. The stiff est fighting encountered by the Amer jeans was in a little piece of ground east of Chamery, where, according to the German newspapers, the body of Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt was bur jed after his airplane had been brought down early in the present operations
 Through wheat fields and over wooded trails soaked with the rain that fell almost all day, the Americans moved slowly and cautiously, but all most continuously, over farms and past villages, among them Coulonges and Couhan. To the westward anoth- CT force of Americans also was nov ing steadily through and around the Nesles woods and the rolling country east of the woods To both the east and west of that part of the line held by the Americans and French were meeting with similar successes.
 Next Hun Stand at Vesle
 Prisoners were taken during the day. One. a captain. admitted the German artillery had been withdrawn. His story confirmed tales of other prison CTS that the Germans were determined to make their next big stand on the Vesle, and not the Ardre; and that their movements under way indicated the fortifying of Fishes as the center of the next fixed line of battle.
 It is not anticipated that the Ger mans will withdraw to the Vesle line } without renewing their rear guard re- stance and it is expected that the esent unopposed advance will end quickly. perhaps with stiff fighting on the high ground just south of the Ar dre in order to give the Germans more } time for getting their artillery and l stores across.
 } Make Germans Very Uncomfortable With only a slight advance in addi- ton to that of today the heavy guns
 of the allies will be in position to shell Fishes and any part of the line l the Germans may determine to stand } on could immediately be made uncom- 7 fortable.
 Although the enemy's retreat on the MilOle Has DteT SutCeSS1ul anu He ldS ? been able to get out the greater DOT
 tions of his armies, observers have
 witnessed conditions which they be-
 lieve indicates that the Germans are
 moving more hastily than they desire
 Huge clouds of smoke and dull explo.
 sions have come from St. Gille, on thu
 Ardre a short distance south of Fis . mes. and other places near the alliet front. These told of the destruction O
 big ammunition dumps. Fires also ar visible at eight to ten places. even a
 far as Fishes. That they had beer
 started by the Germans seems obvious
 since no allied shells had reache
 these places during the day. S Advance Practically Unopposed O The Americans expected to find tn l. enemy prepared for a bitter fight, bu d when they swung northward fror l. their positions in the line after brie e artillery preparation. to which ther r. was no reply, all was silence in iron If of them. The skirmish line even wa l. abandoned, and the men were enable
 to proceed single file through suo IS wheat fields and clumps of woods a
 they had known at home. During tn e rarest of intervals there was spatter .- ing of rifle or machine gun fire, whic ': served to check the line for the fe' o minutes that was required to silenc
 the enemy gunners.
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