Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-27
Allied Armies on RHEIMS
Front Closing in on Forces
of Grown Prince in At
tempt to Make Big Cap
ture.
MORE THAN 305,000
ON MENACED FRONT
Strategy, if Successful, Will
be Turning Point Of War.
Yanks are in Center of
Great Fight.

Violent German counter attacks
and rear actions in great strength
still fail to serve as barriers to the
advance on the Soissons-Rhims
salient.
They have aided in slowing down
the fast pace, but on the three sides
of the U-shaped battlefront import
ant gains have been made
Driving slowly but urely, south
of Scissors, the American and French
troops have pushed their fronts fur
ther eastward toward that part of
the Soissons-C Chateau Thierry rail
way line that is still in the hands
of the enemy, and further south,
along both sides of the Ourcq river
and the road leading to Fere EN- Tar
denois, Germany's great storehouse
for the supply of her troops to the
south, important penetrations into
enemy-held territory have been made
until the maximum point where the
allies are fighting near Coincy is
about 1O1a miles from the point of
their departure last Thursday
In the Marne region north OF
Chateau Thierry the Americans and
French have met with the iercest
kind of resistance, for the Germans
are striving hard to extricate large
numbers of the German forces and
save part of the great numbers of
guns and quantities of war materials.
The advantage in the fighting has
rested with the allied troops, who
have pushed on northward past the
village of Epiedes and ousted the
Germans from the greater part of the
Chatelet forest. In this region the al
lies now hold the villages of Epieds
and Trugny-Epieds, which were cap
tured by the Germans and were re-
captured Wednesday in counter
attack by the Americans Pressing
on northward, the allies have driven
their front beyond Courpoul, which
lies about 61a miles northeast of
Chateau Trierry.
Along the Marne at several points,
notably in the region of Charteves
and Jaulgonne and further east at
Treloup the allies have put the
northern bank of the Marne further
behind them in advances and cap
tured large number of cannon and
machine guns and considerable war
materials.
In the region between the Marne
and Rhims, where the German crown
prince has brought forward large
numbers of picked reinforcements,
his warriors are meeting with hard
usage Following up the advances of
the French and Italians of Tuesday,
the British Immediately to the south
west of Rhims apparently have be-
gun movement which possibly por-
tends good results.
Here the British have overcome
strong counter attack and, following
it, a violent bombardment and struck
the German line at Vrigny for a
goodly gain This maneuver, II pres
sed to further advantage, will ser
iously menace the Rheims-Fismes
railway, scant three miles to the
north and also will tend materially
to lessen the. width of the pocket
through which the Germans are en-
deavoring to retreat from the Sois
sons-Rhims salient.
Gauged by the war maps, the new
inroads of the allied troops into the
German-held territory necessarily
add further to the extreme gravity of
the situation of the Germans inside
the huge pocket and with the long
range guns on both sides of the U
heavily shelling them far behind the
actual fighting fronts, with airmen
bombing them assiduously, and with
the infantry attacking them on all
sides with rife and light gunfire,
their situation seemingly is a hazard
GUS one.
American and British aviators are
aiding the French airmen in their
raids and bombing expeditions.