The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-22
YANKEES PRESS
CLOSE ON HEELS
OF FLEEING FOE
Enemy Oyertaken Before
He Is Able to Destroy His
Guns and Shells.
ARE USED AGAINST HIM
Entire Line Cheers When
News Comes That Marne
Has Been Cleared.
ARE USED AGAINST HIM
Special Gable Despdtch TO The sus.
Copyright. 1915; all rights reserved.


WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, July 21.-Gen. Foch, Com
mander in Chief Of the armies Of the
Allies, has ordered that all the
Franco-American troops pressing for
ward from scissors to Chateau
Thierry to Rheims in the worlds
greatest battle be notified that the
Germans have been driven back
across the Marne. The retreat Of
the Germans has not been unhindered,
for the Americans are advancing and
pressing them southwest and east Of
Chateau Thierry.
In extricating himself from the no
longer tenable positions on the south
bank Of the Marne the enemy paid
dearly. for the French, Americans
and Italians attacked all the way
from Chateau Thierry to Rheims,
Fastening the general retirement.
The first move Of the Germans to re-
trace their way over the Marne was
made on Friday under the cover Of n
heavy smoke screen. Smoke screens,
however. will not stop shells and
bullets, and the American batteries
unloosed storm Of steel, which
wrought unprecedented slaughter
among the gray clad troops as they
crossed to the north bank. along the
roads on either side and in the vii
lagos through which the Germans
were forced to pass.
Enemy Caught I'm Trap.
When daylight came the lines Of
olive drab and blue moved forward
through green field and woods to the
river which they had so bravely de-
Tended. For a time a small force of
Germans were caught in a trap on the
south side Of the river, with the bridge
they had intended to cross smashed in
the maelstrom of bursting shells. They
grew fewer and fewer until at last
they were all gone. Thus was broken
the hold Of the Germans on the south
bank Of the most famous river in
Europe, and the river over which the
kaiser's men have been forced to re-
treat twice in the four years of war.
1t is wonderful thing for the
American people to know that their
soldiers had a hand in this fighting.
Along the Marne and on the whole
front from Scissors to Rheims and
then on east almost to Verdun Is un-
rolling what may become one of the
worlds most decisive battles-a strug-
gle for the greatest stakes men ever
fought for, and in which the guiding
genius of Gen. Foch is showing at
every turn, and in which our own flesh
and blood from New York, from New
England from the South, the West
and the central States are playing a
heroic, splendid part.
objectfVes Always Reached.
Nowhere have they failed to carry
their objectives. II Foch ordered them to
capture certain wood il was captured
if he told them to advance two kilo-
meters IN two hours they were at the
appointed place at the appointed time
Many OF these soldiers never had fired
shot in anger in their lives, nor lived
through the agony of seeing a comrade
ian beside them, yet they fought with
the superhuman courage and endurance
OF war tried veterans aflame with the
spirit of freemen and proving to all the
world that they are worthy OF Americas s
best traditions No honor that those
at home can do them will be too great.
They fight like heroes" said an en-
thusiast.c American General to-day, to
which a French General added They