Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-12
i. 5. TROOPS WIPE
OUT HUN REGIMENT
IN BATTLE At vAUX
Yanks Capture Village and Re-
pulse COunter-A Attacks.
500 PRISONERS ARE CAPTURED
Americans Hold All Ground Won and
sInflict Heavy Losses on Enemy
in Hot Fight in Front of Hill
2O4-Germans Flee to
Rear When Yanks
Advance.

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With the American Forces on the
Marine Front, July "a cOunter-at-
tack made by the Germans against
the new positions won by the Ameri-
can forces to the west of Chateau
Thierry was completely broken up.
The Americans did not give up foot
of ground which they had captured.
There was hot fighting all day in
front of Hill 204, which is in the hands
of the Germans. At five O'Clock in the
evening the American artillery was
engaged in heavily Smelling the posi-
ton.
The total number of Germans cap
tured by the Americans is now esti-
mated to number about 500. includ-
ing seven officers. Many machine
guns were taken.
In brilliant operation after hard
fighting the American troops on this
front captured the village of Vaux,
together with large slice of the Par
is highway west of Chateau Thierry
and two patches of wooded land.
Germans Flee to Rear.
1t was exactly six O'Clock in the eve
ming when the Americans went over
the top under the protection of hail
of machine gun bullets from our ma
chine gun barrages. The infantry &C.
ton was preceded by short but ter
rifle artillery preparation. When the
Germans saw that a formidable at
tack was developing many of those in
outposts yelled and ran toward the
rear to nests from which a hot fire
began pouring.
The Americans paused for a mo-
ment while the automatic rifles and
machine guns with the advancing
troops fought duel in front of Vaux
briefly, but effectively, with the en-
envy.
Then the Americans, whose number
was considerable, went on, most of
them running in their eagerness to
get at close quarters with the Ger
mans. At the same time the Boches
began hurting gas shells to the rear
of the American lines.
Fight for Village Streets.
Within a brief time the Americans
had wreSted from the enemy the
Bots dc la Roche and the woods adj
Joining it, Then came word that the
Americans were in VauX and finally,
after sharp fighting there in the
streets and houses, they overcame all
resistance and swept on beyond the
village.
The Americans reached every one
Of their detectives and by this opera
ton they have eliminated q salient
and have Strengthened out their line.
Over an area of several miles the
Americans now have the enemy under
their guns.
1,O1o,115 Yanks Now in France.
Washington, July 3-More than
| 100000 American soldiers have gone
to France.
The exact number, 019,1 15-was
disclosed in correspondence between
President Wilson and Secretary Of
War Baker, dated July L. and made
public late Tuesday.
OF this number, approximately 7OO,-
900 are fighting troops.
| Shortly before the announcement
the house appropriations committee
made public testimony before that
body in connection with the army
budget.
In it Gen. r. E. Wood, acting quar-
| termaster general of the army, dis
closed that by January ! the United
! States will have in uniform an army
of 100000 men.
Yanks Help Haig Win Town.
| London. July 5.-Detachments of
American infantry assisted the Aus
tralians in capturing Hamel. This an
nouncement was made officially.
y Attacking on front of nearly four
miles, between Villers-Bretonneaux
and the Somme. the British advanced
an average depth of nearly mile and
a half, capturing the village of Hamel,
Field Marshal Haig reported.
The British also have captured
Vaire wood, it was learned authOrita-
| lively.
yaire wood is located about one
mile south of Hamel.
The British have taken more than
1 800 prisoners in their attack on Ha-
mel.
| The Australians went over the top
in the early morning behind a fleet of
tanks which led the way into the hos
tile territory.
AS tribute to America the Austria
lians had designated their drive a
Fourth of July attack, and yesterday
was set as the time for the operation
because it was the American anniver-
sary.
French Gain Ground.
Paris, July 5.-The French delivered
q strong thrust near Moulin-Sous-
Touvent. northwest of scissors on
the so-called Marine front, which threw
the Germans back several hundred
yards. The French captured 1865 pris-
oners, including Is officers.