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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1918
Page
6
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Bulletins from the American army report continued Franco American gains on the Aisne Marne front near Chateau Thierry and Soissons. Prisoners taken describe German efforts to slow progress as heavy allied artillery hammers targets and cuts rail lines north of Soissons.
Geneva reports heavy railway disruption as wounded from the French front arrive by hospital trains. German trains reach the Swiss frontier hours late, delaying traffic between Rhine towns.
Advices from London report French forces under General Gouraud have retaken all their former front line positions in Champagne between the River Suippes and Massiges. The sector is the one commanded by Gouraud, hailed as the hero of the Dardanelles.
Paris July 22 British divisions moved from the northern front to the battle sector southwest of Rheims. The force, composed of picked troops, took a place in the battle order similar to that held during the May offensive. Transport was executed with notable skill.
General Gouraud praises Fourth Army for halting the German offensive east of Rheims on July 14. He commends infantry machine gunners aviators battalions and staffs for disrupting the attack and delivering a hard blow to the enemy while signaling France’s victory.
Special cable from Paris reports examination of wounded German prisoners shows Austrian troops among them. Slavic Austrians, sent from Austria into the German army, are in Paris hospitals. their presence suggests fears of disaffection if they remained in Austria.
Paris report states July 21 air operations dropped fifty tons of projectiles on enemy railways cantonments and bivouacs in the Vesle and Ardre valleys. Laon Fismes Berry au Bac and Fere en Tardenois bombarded as fires and explosions followed. Nine German aircraft downed. other actions noted on the Struma and Vardar fronts with prisoner captures and bombardments by Allied aviators.
Displaced POWs arriving near Soissons were dirty and worn, the escape from a surprise German counterattack marked by desertions among Slav troops. Tony Kosovic, a Pennsylvania miner, details being conscripted into the German army, his wife’s letter about famine in Austria, and the relief from Americans and French after capture. Polish regiments face German resistance to Polish troops.
London July 22 The British destroyer Marne has sunk a German submarine, according to an official British Admiralty statement issued today. The submarine was sunk the same day German troops were driven back across the Marne by Allied armies.
Washington reports Honduras has declared war after severing diplomatic relations with Germany on May 18 and acting again last Friday to formalize the conflict.
Indian scouts joined American troops to cross the Marne and observe German movements. The article notes their quick adaptation to local conditions and their enduring cunning from native Western haunts.
Germans discover footprints at a Marne crossing and confront three improvised raft training Indians. The natives dive and swim under water using clay camouflage, then reach the south bank aided by current. Germans shoot the raft, misjudge the attackers, and retreat in frustration.
A German airplane failed to reach the Paris region today as anti aircraft fire drove it off. The incident occurred near Paris on July 22.
German high command fights to hold the Soissons salient near Rheims as French American forces push from the west and French British Italian troops attack the east flank. Uncertainty remains whether retreat can occur without heavy losses.
The lines along the flanks of the salient show progress as both sides strive to pinch the enemy retirement around Oulchy le Chateau. The enemy defends a railway hub near Fismes and concentrates forces to resist the Franco American push toward Soissons and Rheims. Secretary Baker commented on the general tenor of today’s news.
Dispatches report substantial territorial gains last night and today in the Chateau Thierry area with favorable line shifts. Estimates vary on prisoners and material but indicate large quantities captured though exact figures are unclear. The railroad from Soissons to Chateau Thierry is cut, disrupting German supply lines as reserves move to hold the salient.
Lord Lee of Fareham resigns as director general of food production in London citing disagreement with the ministry of agriculture policy. He contests the submarine threat, food security for the war's end, and the 1919 policy shift away from the ploughing program and reduced agricultural enforcement. Lord Lee, formerly Sir Arthur Lee, was recently elevated to the peerage.
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