Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-26
ALLIED TROOPS
PUSH FORWARD q.
At ALL POINTS
Western Jaw of Pincers
Moves Steadily Eastward
Along Ourcq River.
FORCES OF BRITISH REACH
merry PREMECY AND GUEUX
Crown Princes Army Between
Aisne and Marne Almost
Encircled.
FERE-EN- N-TARDENOIS IN DANGER
Gap in Ring Surrounding Germans
Only Twenty-One Miles
Wide.
FERE-EN-TARDENoIs IN DANGER
Gap in Ring Surrounding Germans
Only Twenty-One Miles
Wide. v3h
tny Associated pressl


General Foch has taken a leaf out
| Of the book of German military strait
egy and ordained the use by the allied
armies of the pincers system Of offen-
sive in the Sossons- Rheims salient.
Both jaws of the pncers are moving
smoothly. with the pivot along the
Marine working in unison, and the pro-
cess of attempting to capture many OF
the nearly 100000 Germans in the big
pocket is we'll on the way to what at
present seems like poasible\ success
The Germans, however evidently do
not intend to permit themselves to be-
entrapped without fighting. Having
thrown thousands of e-euforcemeuts
into the already conscsted salient, they
have started counterattack of great
violence all along the semicircular
front from the Ourcq River to the re-
gion Immediately southwest of Rheims.
and their men are said to have orders
/ to stem the allied tide of advance at
all costs.
| Nevertheless, at last accounts the
! Americans, French. British and Italian
troops, themselves we'll re-enforced to
meet the new turn in affairs. were
steadily pressing forward at nearly all
points on the battle line to Rheims.
| "A
Polish contiuSent-the first OF the Poles
| to enter the combat--s declared to
have carried out successfully an enter
prise against the enemy. in which
more than eco Germans were made
| prisoner.
FRANCo-AaIERICA TROOPS ss
| ALMOST AT FERE-E:N-TARDENo
! The western jaw Of the pincers con-
tinues to move eastward along the
Ourcq River on both sides OF the
stream. and the Franco American
| troops now are virtually knocking at
the gates OF Fere-en- -Tardenois, the inn
portant railway junction and storehouss
Tor Germany's war supplies. Further
south TO the Marne new advances. In
Keeping with those in the north have
been attained. r-S3
At the pivot of the pincers north of
the Marne, midway between Chateau-
Thierry and Rhe inns. the French have
extended their line northward in the
forest OF Fere. in the Riz forest and
north OF Dormans while the eastern
jaw OF the pincers. under the pressure
of the British. has noticcabiy moved
| forward in northwesterly direction
for about mile and half over a
GueuN.s the last-named village five
miles west OF Rheims and a scant mile
ard half from the Rheims -Fismes
road. At Merry premccy the allied line
now stands about ten and a half miles
southeast of Fismes. which is the CEN
trail station on the railway running be-
! tween scissors and Rheims
OPENING IN POCKET REDIrcED
~
| For week and day the allied
troops have hammered against the SoIs-
sons-Rheims salient until its width
across between the cities has been
narrowed TO about twenty-one miles
from an original width of thirty ven
miles. while the triangular salient bas
been welded into semicircular Guide
sac over the entire pocket the allied
artillery continues to rain shells from
all sides. and airmen are keepinr IN
their intensive bombing OF troops for
nations and military works
AS yet, Notwithstanding the i,-o,a.
or the allied troops, there has been
no sign of an Impending general r..
treat on Tho part OF the Germans. ,ud.
II lie elects to stand AMI fight Il nu,,
and the allied gains continue vim
inc same succcss as heretofore it seem,
that, with the daily narrowing of IN.
neck "i the pocket. the creny necv..
S2r'ly viii lose many of his men when
me time comes to make his way nor.h-
eastward
Some perturbation Is being caused I'm
England through Il strike in seycroi
cites or munition workers. The work
men threaten Il further extension IF
the strike unless their demands arc
met.