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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1918
Page
1
Washington reports Soissons has fallen to American and French forces. Allied high command says about 30,000 Germans captured in the Franco American drive, the war’s largest single prisoner bag on the western front. French Gaulois notes over 10,000 more prisoners taken nearby.
July 19. The battle across the Aisne to the Marne intensifies as American and French forces drive toward the Soissons to Chateau Thierry highway. German counter attacks near Soissons are repelled and the Allies push eastward, with cavalry on the Soissons Chateau Thierry road and rapid transport sustaining the front. Prisoners, guns, and materiel accumulate as trucks shuttle troops and supplies to the front.
United Press reports on Ai sne Marne front advances by American and French forces amid German resistance. Franco American drive pushes 25 miles toward Chateau Thierry and Soissons. German counterattacks repulsed and supplies destroyed in Soissons. Simultaneous Champagne front incursions push 15 miles toward Rheims with gains. Ke front raids yield 100 plus prisoners in Woevre. Vibier Bretonneux Morlancourt raids repulsed. Austria-Hungary notes a 54 aircraft Italian raid on Pola dropping five tons of bombs.
Paris reports a French naval minister Georges Leygues stating in an interview that France is sinking submarines faster than Germany can construct them. He noted that in several months France destroyed three times Germany's submarine output.
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All Seattle plans a 4 pm Saturday victory demonstration to celebrate the Franco American advance between the Marne and Aisne. Citizens, shipyard workers, bands and sailors will parade from Skinner & Idly to Virginia Street with flags. widespread décor and a monster, formal procession.
London reports the British steamer Carpathia of 13 000 tons has been torpedoed and sunk. Passengers and crew were landed. Built in 1908 at Newcastle and registered in Liverpool, she served under Cunard and had previously aided Titanic survivors after the voyage disaster.
A World War II era morale anecdote shows a general insisting the objective is reachable, a wounded soldier cursing pain while returning to the line, and another wounded fighter optimistic the war will end soon as troops rapidly press the offensive.
American and French forces advance at over a kilometer per hour near Soissons, reaching 12th hour objectives in seven hours. Regimental leaders struggle to restrain units as an airplane delivers the halt message. Germans panic and abandon artillery as Americans close in along the Aisne to the Oureq, capturing 150 plus guns. Doughboys celebrate at the front while awaiting the next orders.
American and French troops renew the attack between the Aisne and Marne at dawn after overnight gains. Allied columns advance behind a rolling barrage driving German lines. Air reports show large fires at Soissons as the enemy destroys ammo and supplies before evacuation. An American unit rapidly advanced yesterday and overtook captured French workers along roads, seizing arms from their captors.
Allied forces widen the pocket in the Aisne Marne salient trapping German troops under Von Hindenburg. Renewed Franco American offensives threaten to squeeze the pocket toward Soissons Rheims and the Marne. Escape routes narrow as Allied grip tightens and larger German captur es loom.
Capt Salamann writing in the Vossische Zeitung warns of an oncoming thunderstorm as American participation is noted. An official Rome dispatch states Italian mountain troops have contributed heavily in defending Rheims.
Paris dispatches report that fifty thousand bottles of champagne were sent to the poilus defending Rheims by the grateful inhabitants of the city. The note from the French front today confirms the tribute amid wartime exchanges.
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