The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-06-03
ALLIES CHECK
GERMAN DRIVE
TOWARD PARIS
Huns Make Slight Gain Along
Marne-French Regain
Towns.
FOCH GAINING UPPER HAND
Head-Long Rush Of Crown Princes
Hordes Along Marne Is Slow
ed Up-French Drive Foe
Back at Point of the
Bayonet.

London, June 3.-The first week of
the German drive on Paris between
scissors and Reims ended with the
armies of the crown prince checked.
The Germans have advanced slight
ly and captured that part of Chateau
Thierry which lies on the north bank
Of the Marne, but the French have
made greater gains in smashing coun-
ter-attacks.
On the allied left flank, the French,
by splendid hand-to-hand fighting, have
recaptured four towns.
Three of these, Longpont, Corey, and
Troesnes, lie in the River OurcQ sec
tor. west of Fereen-Tardenois The
fourth, Mont de Choissy, is between
scissors and Noyon. The Germans
have also been driven from Hill 163.
Regain Six Positions.
On the allied right progress has
been made by the French, particular
ly in the neighborhood of Vile en- Tar
denois, where the village of Champlat
has been retaken from the Germans,
making total of six positions re-
sitfons regained in one day.
The Berlin official report claims that
more than 100000 artillery shells and
'incalculable" supplies, as well as
more than 1000 vehicles, were cap
tured at the ''Franco-American" depot
near Fere-en-Tardenois.
All reports from the front are hap
PLY different from those of the last
six days. The allies are holding firm
all along the Marne salient from
Noyon to Reims, While the gains they
have made in counter-assaults are of
the first Importance.
Take Town by Bayonet.
An example of the bitter character
of the fighting is furnished by the
scores of desperate battles which re-
suited in the restoration of Mont de
Choissy to the allies. The Germans
stormed and carried the town four
times before the final French assault
which threw the enemy back at the
point of the bayonet
In the same sector, between Sois-
sons and Noyon, German attacks of
extreme violence against Carlepont
wood and around Moulin n-Sous-Touvent
were repelled, according to the official
French statement.
The German report, however, claims
progress there, asserting the heights
east of Moulin n-Ssous-Touvent were
taken and that gains were scored west
of NOuvrOn
Occupation of Chateau Thierry by
the enemy has been expected at any
moment for the last three days. The
enemy has forced his way into the
part of the city north of the Marne,
but the French still hold the section
south of the river.
In the most crucial sector of the
line, between Noyon and scissors,
the allies have more than held their
own, despite the repeated and furious
assault the crown prince has direct
ed there, with the hope of breaking
down the allied defenses so that the
German armies on the Marne and on
the Ourcq may dash westward for
Paris.
Americans at Pivot
Military men believe that if the
Germans succeed in breaking down
the allied defenses around Soissons
that the next blow for Paris would
be made on the line from Chateau
Thierry northwestWard to Cantigny
on the end of the Montddier salient
in Picardy.
This would mean that American
troops would hold the northern pivot
of the line assailed-that is. at Can
tigny, and the French the southern
pivot on the right bank of the Marne.
However, in view of the increas-
ingly strong blows the French are
delivering south of Soissons, and
their magnificent defense of the line
between scissors and Noyon it seems
that the westward tendency of the
German drive is checked for the mo-
ment at least.
Rems Line Holds
The allied right wing, from the
Marne TO Reims is holding firm, and
the FrancoBritish defense there has
been materially strengthened by the
French gains around Ville-en-Tarde-
nOis, one of the storm centers. The
German efforts to get in behind Reims
and to then crush the Cathedral city
with simultaneous assaults from the
front, the north and the rear all have
been frustrated
Field Marshal Haig reported three
highly successful raids on the German