The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-01
FURIOUS GERMAN
ONSLAUGHT NEAR
S0ISS0NS IN Vain
French Regain Ground and
Take Many Prisoners.
Enemy Efforts To Advance on
New Front Broken.
MASSES ARE SLAUGHTERED
Attempts To Cross Marne Are
Broken Up.
Main Effort Now Seems to the
Westward.
$4,000 PRISONERS To HUNS?
Rheims Still Holds Out, but
May Be Given Up.
Greeks Have Advanced Seven
Miles in Brilliant Action.
45, 900 PRISONERS TO HUNS?
Rheims Still Holds Out, but
May Be Given Up.
Greeks Have Advanced Seven
Miles in Brilliant Action.
(By the Associated Press)

With the French Army in France
June Attempts of the Germans 10
cross the river Marine have met with
vigorous resistance and failed Inc
troops which made the effort retired
from the river bank.
Paris. June 1.-Along the northern
bank of the Marine the Germans
pushed forward advance parties from
the north and east borders of Chateau
Thierry as far Verneuil.
On the French right there was sharp
fighting on the road between Dormans
and Rheims. The situation is un-
changed northwest and north of
Rheims
Striking westward Now.
Having reached the Marine, the Ger
man crown prince is now striking
westward with all the force of the
great armies at his command with the
apparent purpose of forcing the elm
ination of the Montdidier salient and
ultimately pushing in below Amiens to
cut off Paris from the north. SO 1ar,
according to the French official re-
port, his progress has been small.
Between scissors and Chateau
Thierry on the Marne, indeed, the
French have impetuously counter at
only has failed to advance but has
been forced to give ground.
This was notably the case imme-
diately to the south of scissors, where
the enemy was thrown back upon the
Crise river. Further south, the Ger
mans had worked some three miles
west of the Soissons- Chateau Thierry
road and had taken the village of
Chaudun. The French drove in here
determinedly, reca ptured the place
hall al
from the Germans near Vierzy.
Advance Nearly Halted.
Still further south, the German ad =
vance had progressed somewhat fur
ther from the main road, about four
miles. Paris reports, however, that
new German attacks here, in the re-
gion of Chouy and Neuilly, were brok-
en- up. the French maintaining their
lines east of these towns.
The Germans have not yet taken
the important railway junction at
Chateau Thierry. Elements of their
advance, however, have spread out
slightly further eastward along the
north bank of the river, and they are
now occupying this bank approxi-
mately twelve miles in an airline be-
tween Chateau Thierry and Verneuil.
Rheims is still in allied hands and
in general, there seems to have been
but little change along the eastern
side of the new German salient The
line runs northeastward from Yer
neuil along the Dormans- Rheims road
and curves protectingly northward
around Rheims.
Attacks Most Violent.
Paris, June 1.-The German attack
continued during the night with re-
doubled violence on the western side
OF the new salient, between Scissors
and Chateau Thierry.
da
and drove back the masses of Ger
man troops in the region of Scissors
and on the line of Chaudun- Vierzy
gaining ground everywhere and tax
Ing several hundred prisoners, the wal
office announces
Against the western wing of the bat
tie field from the Disc to Chateau
Thierry the strongest German efforts
were directed Friday.
Between the Disc and scissors the
French hold broad salient between
the two points made by the German
offensive of March % and May 81
The plateaus forming this salient offel
excellent opportunity for massing
troops.
The salient held by the French con.
stitutes a grave danger to the German
flank and the enemy is striving to re.
move it, but with Indifferent success
The ground won in earlier offensive
operations serves as the point of de-
Iiic PIcSchl
which is operated from two bases; the
Noyon- Mont Didier line on the right
and the Soissons-Chateau Thierry line
on the left
Hurl Masses in Vain.
Hurting the weight of great mum
bers against the stubbornly resisting
French defense north and south O.
scissors, the German crown prime,
has been unable to make progress OF
this vital sector of the battle line from
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