The Little River news., 1918-06-22
GERMANS LOSE THEIR
 NERVE WAIVER, HALT
Repeated Failures Cause Lack of Old DO-Or-De Spirit-40,OOO of Enemy Almost Cut to Pieces in Drive
 on Rheims.

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 Almost Cut to Pieces in Drive
 Sn Rheims.
 The Teutonic allies apparently have lost their spirit of do-or-die Their | attacks everywhere lately have lack ed the tenaciousness of days gone by.
 Instead of ploughing through allied | lines with stubborn indifference to casualties so long as an objective was gained they now waver and then halt in the face of the artillery and rifle fire of the men barring the way, | and with the points they were trying to gain still far beyond their reach
 Ambitious attempts by the troops of the Central powers in the past few weeks have proven this. The open ing of gateway to Paris through the Western front, running from Montdidier to the Marne, have fail ed completely, the offensive on the Italian battle line launched by the Austcisns seemingly has failed mis- erably in the mountain regions and apparently has almost been stopped along the Piaye, while 8 stroke start< ed by the Germans against lftheims broke down in it's inception without the enemy taking yard of terri tory.
 And in these various attempted en- terprises the high commands of the German and Austro- Hungarian armies have seen their men literally mown Gown until the battlefelds have be- come clogged With dead and wounded as a recompense to the allied troops for the small bits of terrain they yielded.
 Austrian Attack Eags. The Austrian offensive in the It2l- ian theater is still in progress along the Piaye river, but in the mountain region. after a sharp reaction by the Italian, British and French troops, wlo, in counter-attacks, pushed back the invader from the points he had attained in his initial rush, the enemy evidently is fearful of again trying out the mettle of the defenders. On the Piave, numerous attempts have been made by the AGstrians to gain further tridgeheads on the western bank of the stream, but the Italians everywhere are holding them with their gunfire and also doing sanguin- 2ry execution within the ranks of the enemy across the river with bombs and machine gun fire.
 The Austrian War Office asserts that the Austro-Hungarian troops h,ve crossed the Fossetta canal at some points where Tuesday it was claimed they had made advances and also that several Italian lines at the southern foot of the Montello plateau the key to the Venetian plains, have been pierced.
 Italians Take 5000 Prisoners.
 Rome, on the other hand, declared that all the weak attempts made in the Montello region were completely repulsed
 More than 5000 men have been talk en by the Italians since the offensive began and many guns and several hundred machine guns have been cap- tured That intensive air fighting has also taken place is shown by the tact that 50 enemy planes have been shot down. Only two of the allied machines have failed to return to their base.
 Rheims Attack Fails.
 The attack of the Germans near ] Rheims resulted disastrously to them Hardly had they left their trenches after one ot the most terrific bonn bardments with shells of all calibers, including gas projectiles, ever expe- rienced on the western front, nearly 10000 men were faced by the rein forced French armies and literally cut to pieces and forced to fall back precipitately. Only at one point, to the east of Rheims, did the enemy succeed in penetrating the French immediately. The German official communication describes the attack as demonstration of artillery and mine throwers.