The Sentinel=record., 1918-07-21
ONLY DEAD GERMANS AND PRISONERS SOUTH OF MARINE


 sector in France. Last Monday, the 9th, the Germans began an attack which covered a sixty mile front. one half of which covered the very hilly ground between Chateau Thierry and Rheims, the other half the plain of the Champaign between Rheims and the forest Of Argonne.
 'In the Champaigne district the po- sition which was held largely by French troops with the assistance of one American division and regiment of United States colored troops, was penetrated only q short distance at few points. The Champaigne district is under the command of General Gouraud of the French army. Gou- raud is one of the most striking per comanders. He is a man about fifty years of age, as he seemed to me, erect and soldierly He has been in actioa all over the world and has on his sleeve the five blesse' stripes, wound chevron. which means that he has been wounded five times; several Of the wounds were of such a character that he was absolutely shot up; he has lost one arm, and man of less de- termination and force could never haver have survived. The French call him Tres Soldat'-'every inch a sol dier'. He Is a man of such determine tion and force that in any German drive against his troops his men would be inspired by his presence to die where they are.
 "Along the Marne between Chateau Thierry and Rheims, the Germans made an advance of from four to five miles on a twenty three mile front The terrain at that point is very diff ficult, wooded hills rising up to a height of from 400 to 800 feet per- haps. This general movement has been i t, ought to a stand still. The object ol entire German attack was not Ia strategic object like an ad- vance vlll Pi v any advance on tho
 English ports 't plainly had for it's objective simply the applying of the nut cracker process on the city of Rheims. If 1t were possible for them 1 to come in there and squeeze Rheims Rheims, however as has been shown, l is very we'll organized for defense. Without going into details, 1t Is or ganized for house-to-house defense, and that has been the reason why the Germans have not been able to get III, "As soon as the German advance along the line of the Marne east of Chateau Thierry had been brought to a standstill, Foch struck hard along the western side of the salient. The series of lines you see on the map represents the German advancs which produced that salient, day by day, and at the start of this fighting which began last Monday out line was along here Indicating a line running south ward from the Aisne to the Marne.l The blue cord represents the line pointed out to you on the larger de- tailed map, showing former German advances day by day, and our troops held that line when the counter-of- fensive began. The front over which we advanced twenty-two miles and the maximum penetration so far re- ported officially has been to a depth of ten miles, and at the other points indicated there has been penetration of seven miles, so that we have gone forward seven miles on twenty-two mile front. This is the official state ment of how far we harve gone. The last indication we had in the official reports was that fighting was still in progress, and the offivials reports all so indicate the capture of guns and prisoners in very helpful amounts.
 "In this advance. and opposing the advance of the Germans, there are taven American divisions and one regiment of colored troops.
 "The press has carried during the past few days statements about the number of troops we have continued to send over. It was an estimate made by some person who arrived at his conclusion by assuming that we were sending troops over at the same rate we did last month, and, the many guesses. were wrong. The statement published in the papers was that we had sent over about 90,000 men last week, and that the number was now little short of 100000. The fact of the matter Is that we have passed the 100000 mark on the second million. We have over 1.2G0.o0 embarked. f you will wait for these things I will tell you the facts.
 ~They are always better than when yon guess.
 "One question asked me has been:
 "eWill you be good enough to tell us where the Illinois National Guard. which trained at Fort Logan H. Roots, is situated in France? The division is commanded by General Bell. Jr., and is in the English training sector. A CONTINUED ON PAGE TWol