Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-07-31

counters west IF Reims late last night.
Fighting Grows Savage.
Both sides of the pocket in the Ger
man line have been scenes of most
violent attacks and counters during
last night and morning Few f1uctua-
lions of the line have occurred, but
these have favored the allies, who
keep incessant pressure on the retir-
ing Germans. who are endeavoring TO
cover the withdrawal of the bulk OF
their troops from imminent danger.
Southwest of Reims the Germans
have shown the disappointment over
their inability to hold with their
crack divisions their positions around
Nrisny and have turned all their
available artillery on British and
French who drove them out but the
enemy could not prevent a still fur
Their advance.
Some of the hardest fighting on the
whole battlefield is now raging on
the new British front, astride the
Ardre in Montague de Reims.
Enemy Cut to Pieces.
They were opposed by four German
divisions-the Eighty-fourth, One Hun
dred and Third, One Hundred and
Twenty-third and the Twenty-second
engaged since July Is, and the Ger
mans suffered heavily in an attempt
to pierce the Italian front with view
of reaching the Marine and turning the
French position at Montague de Reims.
The One Hundred and Twenty-third
division was badly punished and was
replaced by the Fiftieth, which was
ordered to hold at all costs.
The Highlanders attacking south of
the Arder against Courton wood,
fought their way two miles across the
wood and established themselves on
the western border. They took st. Eu-
phrase and Bouilly on Monday and
then attacked south of the Ardre.
There was fierce fighting between
the Americans and the Germans on
the crests north of the Marine.
With the American Armies in
France, July 25.-American troops.
advancing north of Chateau Thierry,
captured the village of Epieds five
miles northeast of Chateau Thierry)
for the third time. after violent fight
ing in the streets.
Epieds previously had been taken
twice by the Americans, only to be
lost in German counter-attacks. The
village is completely in ruins.
In the Bots de Chartelet (six miles
directly north of Chateau Thierry)
the Americans encountered stiff re-
sistance from German machine guns.
They took the wood at the point of
bayonet and are now progressing be-
yond its northern borders.
U. S. Cavalry in Action.
American cavalry is in full action
for the first time.
Mounted men are accommodating
north of Chateau Thierry, harassing
the enemy. They have introduced a
new departure in warfare, acting as
grenadiers on horseback.
Several enemy detachments have
been broken up by grenades hurled
by the cavalrymen.
American units were delayed tenn
porarily in Bots de Barbillon south
of Epieds by an array of German ma
chine guns posts, which were estab-
lished at intervals of only ten yards.
Feinting in frontal attack, the Amer
leans fianked the Boches, taking
numerous prisoners.
Between the Ourcq and the Marine,
French and American troops are
pressing forward with the Germans
contesting every foot. Prisoners de-
clare the enemy posts along the
Ourcq are being sacrificed, to the last
man, to delay the allied advance suf-
ficiently for establishment of new
German defense lines in the rear.
Despite orders to hold to the death.
the crown princes rear guard is be-
ing forced to give way before the al
lied attack along practically the whole
battle front.
Prisoners declare the units of the
rear guard were ordered to remain at
their posts and hold off the Americans
to the last. Before the violence of
the American assault they are being
wiped out or taken prisoner.
Coming through certain woods an
American unit found the Germans had
established machine guns every ten
yards. They were seemingly impreg-
nable.
The Americans massed as though
for a frontal attack.
While the Germans attention was
centered on these forces other Ameri-
cans made a wide, encircling move
ment and suddenly charged the en-
envy from both TANKS.
The Germans were taken complete
Iy by surprise and surrendered to es-
cape slaughter.
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