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: machine gun, seized q rifle, rushe,
! around he enemy's position, bayon
. letted two OF the gunners and sho
! the third and 80 enabled the infantr.
, to advance. A barrage was laid Of
, the Bots de Jomblets behind which
l the 125th Infantry moved forward ant
shortly after noon again occupied
: that woodland under heavy shell IRE
Between and o'clock the 18TH
Infantry worked ahead and engulfed
, Bellevue Farm and Hill $50, leaving
Reddy Farm, with its terrible circle
of fire, still in the enemy's possess
ion but in a steadily closing salient
Not long after, the 125th Infantry
again lunged foreward on the left
and took the Bots Planchette and the
Bots Pelger, of which they held the
former but were obliged to relinquish
the latter before nightfall. 1t was in
the Bots Pelger that Pvt. H. j, Dew
ereaux, Co. M, angered because a
German machine gun, after wounding
ibis corporal, continued firing on the
latter, strobe forward with his rife
and put gun and gunners out of bust
ness
The situation was now such that the
command of the 9Th French Army
deemed it probable that a concerted
advance could break through, and
such an advance on the part of the
LIST United States and the 3sth and
3rd French Corps was ordered, to be-
gin at AIS o'clock on the morning
General Attack Begun
August 2.
General Attack Begun
During the night the 4th French
Division, right of the 32nd, United
States, which was slightly behind,
cleared out the strongest position in
its front, the hill crest of the Court
eaux Farm, and, thanking from there
toward the left, strangled out the
woods of the Pats de Charmery and |
came up in the line with the Ameri- |
cans on Hill 23O.
At the hour set, the attack began,
the advance battalion of the Sind |
Brigade being supported by the batter
les of the 18th Field Artillery and
thos of the 64th Brigade by the 18th
on also had a machine gun company
and a number of 37mm. guns and
2t0rkoc nortaro for cIaorin1 o,,t
Machine gun nests.
The movement progressed rapidly, Ii
Ind it soon became evident that the ]
,nemy despairing of furthur effective Ii
assistance on that line, was retreating i
am. the attack had became pursuit, {
which pressed with all possible Wig
,r and delayed only occasionally
md for short period by bursts of 3
machine gun fire, pushed northward n
through Chamery, Coulonges, Villome I
nd Cohan, over great stretches of t
he smoke and flames and explosions t.
f burning supplies, ammunition |,
jumps and bridges indicated the haste
the German retreat. By midnight F
ne front line was of Dravegny, more h
IAN six kilometers beyond its start P
lg point, and French cavalry patrols n
ere still beyond. "
Artillery Ordered Forward a.
So rapid was the advance that O.
1ring the night two batteries Of the d.
Eth Field Artillery, each accomani-
by two trucks of the 10th AmmunL- OF
on Train, were ordered up to join al
e Infantry advance guards and give W
rapid fire with open sights s.
machine gun opposition was en- b,
'untered, while battalions of the 119 Il
J, 121st and 147th Field Artillery Ell
'sition so that the Infantry, in 60 O
6 forward, would at no time be es
thout prompt artillery support. til
Directing its march upon the town
Fismes, on the south bank of the fl;
isle, about halfway between Soiss- CT
IS and Reims, the 32nd pushed on, d.
ID at 10 am. the advance of the al
til Infantry, leading the cath til
'igade, was nearly into st. GILES, tn
ID the 63nd Brigade was at Resson 30
Irm. at which points both were over W,
ming machine gun resistance, while A,
e men of the attached battalions Di
the 10th Engineers were working te
top speed to repair the broken lly
idges and roads and permit the or
pplies to come up. n,
But the congestion Of the tranic of wi
veral divisions advancing in close 81
oximity to one another and the Di
ndition of the roads after days of
avy rains made the supply problem
very hard one, and often the tired
'ops had to 60 hungry.
Overlooking the vesie I'll
Before pm. the front line was on
J bluffs overlooking the vesle, hav-
) advanced nearly eight kilometers ex
4 1t was ordered to reach the river u