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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1918
Page
7
British forces secure Meteren with Scots, Royal Scots, and South Africans encircling the village. Allied troops encounter exhausted German reserve divisions living in shell pits and dugouts as influenza and constant bombardment wear down defenders. Surrendering groups form after surprise attack with limited German counter action.
The Arbeiter Zeitung of Vienna reports Americans have changed the war in a military sense, praising American organization and noting Germany faces three powers with a combined population three times larger. The article asserts one million Americans stand ready to aid.
Paris reports Lt Kutrayagus of Temps describes American troops in the opening counter offensive. He recalls tunics off and sleeves rolled as they wade rivers, bulldog charges on Beebe and German troops fleeing or surrendering. laments for French mothers with sons in the war.
Washington shows numbers for the army casualty list with totals by category including killed in action wounded severely and missing in action. The Sunday Marine Corps list adds 12 killed or wounded and notes Southern personnel among the totals with named localities and individuals.
San Antonio and vicinity show tonight and Tuesday partly cloudy with warmest day near the high 80s. East Texas and St Louis report partly cloudy skies and mild temperatures with light southeast winds. Chicago Kansas City and New York register upper 70s to mid 70s with mainly clear or partly cloudy conditions and moderate winds.
Reuters dispatch from French headquarters details an American battery on the Marne repelling German bombardment for 72 hours. Lieutenant volunteers to restore communications after telephones are severed and rides sixteen times through heavy fire, eight horses shot, knees wounded, as troops sustain opposing artillery with remarkable resolve.
From heights overlooking the Marne the correspondent described the German retreat after their defeat by French American British and Italian forces. American artillery pressed the advance fire for 72 hours hindering river crossings as allied troops harried German infantry maneuvering toward the Marne valley.
News dispatches report Crown Prince Frederick William asked his Bavarian cousin Crown Prince Rupprecht for help against advancing Allied forces at the Rheims Sas salient. Rupprecht, commander of German armies in Belgium, has sent several divisions to bolster his cousin’s troops.
Rome reports Italian troops push along the Devoli River bend in Albania capturing seven machine guns and taking 100 prisoners as the advance continues. The war office announced the gains today.
A German prisoner on the Aisne Marne front said German rumor held there may be ten million Americans in France, despite Allied claims of a million. The prisoner, once a New York banker, shared that Germans doubt the million figure and spread further speculation.
Paris reports July 22 that French and American forces push along the Soissons front, crossing near Villemontoire and pressing toward Buzancy. Germans cling to lines south of Soissons as Allied enveloping movements gain momentum with French American cooperation and rising prisoner counts.
In France July 22 Frederick William German crown prince asks Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria for aid as German divisions rushed south to shield the western flank after retreat from the Marne and Chateau-Thierry. Fighting thickens near Soissons as French American forces push the tide forward.
American troops crossed the Marne between Charteres and Gland east of Chateau-Thierry and captured Barbillon wood. French forces pushed five to eight miles along the Marne Ourcq and Aisne lines with 400 prisoners taken between the Ourcq and Marne. British units entered the sector between Rheims and the Marne after a night deployment.
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