The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-02
(Ry Associated Press,

(By Associated PreSS1
LONDON, Sept. 2-The Americans,
says the correspondent of Reuters
limited, at American headquarters in
France, have so far never yielded
ground in France and they kept that
proud record inviolate by their sue
cessful advance on Juvigny after three
days and nights of the bitterest fight
ing. The correspondent says that the
Americans encountered a stout-heart-
ed and extremely skillful enemy show
. ing no signs of lowered morale.
Every foot of the way into Juyigny
had to be contested with machine
gunners, who fought until none was
left to fight. The Americans gained
ground, the correspondent adds, the
heaviest shelling with high explosives
failing to loosen their grip and not
even twelve hours later when the Ger
mans flooded the valley with gas.
| The sad heap of what once were
| the homes of Juvigny which is all that
remains of the place, was not even OF
tactical importance, save the cores
! pondent describing the capture of Ju-
vigny by the American forces. Con-
! tinuing the dispatch says:
Good Shooting Wins.
done in Juvigny itself. but in the
neighboring valleys where the fight
! ing resolved itself into general infan-
| try work, wood craft and ground craft
proved invaluable to the Americans.
They were mostly men of the open air
with keen eyes and an appreciation
of the country and in the branching
| tumble of rsvines they outpointed the
Germans. in Worrying their way
through without losing touch with
their own line or being enveloped by
the enemy. 1t was in consequence OF
| their craft and good shooting that the
American captures reached such a
high figure, 500 Germans being clever
| ly rounded up, for the boche was not
| there to surrender. He was there to
| fight and had fought as long at least,
as hope remained.
1T was the 1044th German regiment
1, that tried to bar the way of the Amer
| leans and the men of this regiment
| have nothing for which to reproach
! themselves. They left many dead in
| those dark valleys and only surrend-
| cred when there was no other option.
"The enemy's measures to hold this
| plateau proved how seriously he must
! have regarded its loss. The seventh
and eleventh reserve divisions seemed
| to have been the normal occupants of
| the line but as they began to suffer
| three other divisions were hurried up
! to reinforce them. One regiment, the
| 227th, marched 140 miles The march
started at dawn on August q, and the
| men went straight into the battle on
| their arrival.
Enemy Resistance Broken.
Shortly after dawn Sunday morn
| ing when the Americans advance re-
commanced, it became plain that the
enemy's resistance was broken and
| that he had decided that the plateau
could not be held. Even then it SEEM
| ed for short time as if the Americans
! might have to pay very dear for what
was left of the valley, but the men
! flushed with victory showed even
| greater determination than on the day
| before, and after four hours, during
| which there was no forward movement
| possible, more cheerful news began to
| come to the Americans. Progress had
| been made by the French on the
right and eventually practically i'm
| possible position was created for the
Germans who were still trying to
cling to the scissors st. Quentin road.
| Before noon, the struggle which had
I given the Americans five strenuous
| days, reached point where one could
| breathe freely.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
| FLANDERS, Sept 2.-In their first
! fighting in Belgium the Americans cap
tured VoormeZeele and several strong
German positions in that immediate
vicinity. On their entrance into Vcor-
| mezeele the invaders found that all
| that remained of the town were piles
of debris, for the shell fire had been
so intent that hardly one brick was
left standing upon another.
AS the Americans advanced the Ger
man rear guards from what little coy-
er remained opened up with their
machine guns, but these were quickly
silenced without much trouble Else
where in the same locality the Ameri-
cans also advanced the line, keeping
in contact with the retreating enemy.
Counter attacks by the Germans re-
suited in their gaining little more
than slight foothold, which in every
case was quickly loosened by British