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GERMANS BACK
Smashing Blow Helps French
Win Back Towns.
GET MORE PRISONERS
American Planes and Artillery Wreck
Hun Bridges Over Marne-Enemy
is Driven Across River

is Driven Across River
With the American Army on the
Marine, July 17.-French and Ameri-
can forces, fighting together, have re-
captured the village Of st. Agnan, Hill
223 to. the northwest and LaChapelle-
Montbodon.
In cooperation with the French the
Americans launched a heavy counter
attack between these two villages,
driving the enemy steadily back
On the American right the French
made rapid progress and all through
the section the Germans We're tiercely
attacked by the allies, with the result
that they have withdrawn for a con-
siderable distance.
Comparatively large forces of
Americans have been engaged, espe-
cially In the region of DESERVED,
where they were brought up to sup
port the attacking French. Within a
short period the Americans were hot
ly engaged in the fighting
American troops, reinforcing the
French, counter attacked the Germans
from the region of St. Agnon-la- Cha
pelle (south Of the Marine below Dor
mans) hurting the enemy lack two
kilometers Zone and a quarter miles,
A large number of prisoners was
taken in this new action.
Between Fossoy and Jaulgonne Gin
the Marine bend) the south bank of the
Marine has been cleared Of Germans.
The resistance Of enemy elements
holding the railway embankment some
yards south of the river was broken
when American airplanes and artil-
lery destroyed the German bridges.
The American attacks continued
throughout the night, all Germans in
this region being either killed or cap
tured.
The number of prisoners taken by
the Americans here totals more than
1900. Trench mortars and many ma
chine guns were captured.
East of Rheims Americans helped
the French meet the shock of tn
German attacks between Prunay and
! Marquises farm, the Americans going
into battle as reinforcements when
the weight of the German attack had
! bent back the French line slightly.
; The counter attack helped to stabilize
the situation
Fighting of desperate character is
proceeding on this front.
American units holding the line
east of Rheims had not given an inch
before the German drive Forming the
allied right flank, they stood like a
stone wall against the great enemy
! push, inflicting huge losses on the Ger
mans and taking large numbers of
prisoners.
The American troops are in battle
with the Germans on an eight-mile
front, from Vaux to Chevy and near
La Chappelle on the Marine front.
Reports from one end of the battle
| line to the other say that except for
a few minor localities the great Ger
J man offensive so far has been a COM
plete failure. Additional German pris-
oners taken say they are convinced
| that their commanders have been
! beaten.
American troops shot down Il cou.
/ rier pigeon belonging to the enemy
, east of Chateau Thierry. 1t was car
/ rying message from German di
! visional headquarters, saying that the
! s., alton was serious. that the Ger
: mans saw no chance of making far
! Their progress in the locality of that
division.
b.irng one of dozen combats T.
, J. AherSphy. of Maine. shot down al
! enemy machine fifteen miles north OF
! Dnrmans.
! Soon afterward George ROher. son
of Kansas City, broughr down Il Ger
man plane within the American lines
! in the same sector.
| Weird received from the battlefront
| to the east of Rheims shows that the
! allied defense is not only still holding
| up the German attempts to advance
! but appears to have broken the enc
! mys spirit.
The American troops fighting in this
! section occupied intermediate posi-
tions in the rear of the first lines. The
J Germans were allowed to come
through, but when they tried to cross
| the open fields up a slight grade the
American machine gunners and infant
ry occupying excellent positions, NOW
ed down the advancing ranks, the enc
my breaking and retiring at many
places. This operation was conduct
| ed on a portion of the front to thu
east of Rheims.