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IS NEEDED
TO PROVIDE FUEL
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-ordinated Effort Among
PAllies Necessary in Pro
sl riiirtinn of Coal
SOLDIERS MAY SUFFER
Atfisdom of a "Generalissimo"
iv a rj.rc:j. t w To
VU VJ1VI1 U1UU Ul T HI 10
Pointed Out
'American Negroes Put
. ""izinr
By CHARLES H. GRASTY
Special Cable to Evening Public
Ledger
Caplrloht. J9M. bv -Vfio York Timet Co,
London, Aug. 7. Officers from
jthe front brlnp astonishing reports
of work done by American rolored
troops, brigaded with Gouraud's
army east of Itheims. Their spe
cialty Is the bajonet, In the use of
Which they excel nil others. Their
proverbial partiality for the razor
as a weapon makes them prefer
the cold steel and they have piled
up a score In kllllns Germans
Which breaks all previous lecords.
The French officers are delighted
with their prowess, and will wel
come fresh colored contingents to
work alongside their own Africans.
By CHARLES H. GRASTY
Special Cable to Evening Public ledger
Copyright, I9JB, by yew York Times to.
Tendon, Aug. 7.
The Americans here are all solid In
their faith In the military success In
France. They expect some kind of a
4. apectacular enterprise from the Ger-
' . man navy as a last card, and they are
R V nronnrert for further blows In France. I
& . hut the military men don't believe that j
fci. 'i Wtndenburir can ever hit as hard In
. . i
1 "" Iha futura n In the nast. while the
Allies grow constantly stronger.
While this optimism on tne military
side Is general, one hears many warn
ings respecting conditions hitherto
"pointed out In these cables. The coal
t outlook In particular Is giving concern
, to those who deal with subjects of
I supply and transport One who speaks
" with knowledge said today:
"There must be Immediate co-ordl-
!' nated effort for the production and
distribution of fuel for future months.
The main supplies for England,
France and Italy must be drawn from
IWBrltlsh mines. The labor Is necessar
ily British. And yet inevitably the
"hasty methods of recruiting the Brit-
ESLfe Vlsh army In the field has depleted the
12 'ranks of Industrial labor to an extent
which Imperils the fuel supply for the
next winter.
Troops May Suffer
r "The conditions do not eoncern the
f'.rlvllan nnnnlfltlon alone, thouch thev
PjJjrEi are serious In that quarter, where good
T 't morale Is so closely related to military
t yoperauons. ine armies also are ui-
ectiy affected.
J? "Unless InteJllcentlv nlanned action
&!V .""i a large scale Is carried out prompt-
r-2, , w'lv. nnr trnnns will nrnh.ih?' h iih.
St: 'iected to great suffering next winter
"' The climate of Europe Is extremely
;" ' trying. Even now In midsummer
i? many of us find it difficult to keep
jo 'warm. When winter comes, naturally
p , ins conumons win oe mucn naruer.
W "American soldiers are accustomed
. to warmth, and while otherwise heartv
R1 and rugged, cannot stand extreme
H cola.
rr- I am sure that America will 1m-
mcaiateiy respond to tne neea oi provid
ing our army with the means of keeping
warm and healthy To accomplish this
there should be an infusion of the
n, cncrgeiiu Bpiru ciiarucierisui; ui stnieii-
Igj to cans when the emergency presents Itself
P r-The recent trouble is lahor scarcity.
Br,' . ii, , "The urgent necessity exists to fit It
w ,Pp without a moment's delay, and most
B?- 1 ( mvbw turn DAnnvo.a n 1av Xnmtt, A rt
. " . v KM txa Drjimaic il'- IU1IO inairAU UI
tinder unified supervision involves a
. i? . - . .
Ti trminrinli ins of mn1npv It f un.
trmennnli Ins of pfflnlAnpv
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thinkable that Cneland will still he
combing men out of mines for military
.-. ... ..... -
"s outy in rrance instead or drawing on
i ".America for soldiers and keemmr the
i IiJrulsn miners at wont vwiere
!S? ."effort counts at the maximum.
their
'There is no limit lo the mischief
& which may result from allowing mat
i ters to drift along until It Is too late to
'f Make and carry out a well-ordered and
KFjiJj j far-reaching plan
ft Definite Measure Needed
' at. ,fWlnter Is near and everv dnv Ir
K -jwecipus. Everybody knows In a vague
, .. .. - .... ,.., u..u
especially In France and Italy, but there
.Is still wanting concentrated attention
and definite measures to provide a-alnst
the Impending danger.
"Perhaps when America understands
that our troops now- playing such a
brave part In battle are facing the in
clemencies of a European winter, with
out proper provision for their health and
comfort, the Government will move for
... milrVr effective action
sii, ''With the example of the sutcess of
fhcur eyes,
Wb.y the.
- uic iiuiii.i J w..... iui,,iii.i,u unuir
t Is difficult to understand
me sound principle is not
the Allies had some one
gsattapplledj,
non-military side corre-
i " enondlt .
Foch on the military, one
write down the German
11, but the Allies may whip
tvilW prspe
i .
in tne neiu and still give
iSA Ih.n.
ce for some sort of com-
'wi sromlse4!
gh the Allied scatteratlon
R,i7i.4and procrastination
lac-S"! Perhaps Lord Reading, who now un-
r& .orstanas American conditions, is brlng-
rvVOe In. mmii nlnnf Ir, Ret the Allteri hnn.
cl; r . "..'.. - -. : : ----
oty in oraer in tne respects rererrea to.
HA Wfllll Ik Unin AMUDIPAUC
-ffl nUUliU HULL nillEJMlyHllJ
KLiirS1 - "
BjfiHamburg Newspaper Argues
f -& Acainst Exchance of Prisoners
i'tt.? Amsterdam. Aug. 7. Discussing the
r !i't'Ero',os'd "Change of American and
i Vi'irJ-Oerman war prisoners, the Nachrlchten,
;fcB.ror Hamburg, takes It upon ItBelf to ad-
r'-Vj-oriae the German Government to reject
, ,,-y.. aw&.i v.wtM.va v,. ine ivnuniltfa
Y; Grounds,:
caII Bllrth nv.-lll.c. n 1,a Fnlln..tr.
Hf.jirpii ,wie nuici liana. 117 mis agrer-
. B.a... .am, .1.1 .,..,.. ..WW..., In., n I -B.n.
.wtv..... nuum -ujw. ; Auviiiviiiai irmi-
jrient, which, besides being unfair to
aw other prisoners, would enormously
facilitate recruiting In America; second.
Winning mat ine Americans nave taken
wer orlBoners than the Germans, it
ould be natural for the Allies ot Amer-
,;! to make up the requisite number
nbanca America's reputed achieve-
-.:;.' The newspaper further demands that,
"a' a. retaliation for America's dla-
' jBfaceful entry Into Aha war," the Idea
- M n exchange should be entertained
Mly. after all other prisoners are re-
A1 further condition of this exchance.
L aay, should ,be'-'that the American
ramcRr,reieaa? me. omciais or ine
nerjeun weanwnip company
ana .niunin
r 1 -iii -
1 U. S. TROOPS START FIERCE DRIVE
Continued from rate One
through the villages and farmhouses he
left Infernal machines.
The whole countryside is pocked
marked with shell holes by tens of
thousands, many formerly fair fields
having so many shell holes that one
can literally step from one to nnother.
Some of these fields are bloody
fields. One I saw I can never forget.
To east, to west and north of the road
lay a wheat field, from which the
enemy had harvested tho grain before
tho battle camo. A hundred ynrds
away lay a stretch of woods. North
of the wheat field was n large wood.
In a small field south of the road
lav a row of bodies of Americans
where German machine guns on the
south side of the road had opened on
them. What could cause a greater
thrill than to walk forward to the
road and see the bodies of the Ger
man machine gunners In their nests
dead from bayonet wounds?
On the north side of the road were
dugouts with American spades lying
about, which told that our men had
made them, and then fifty yards away
and stretching back lay dead Germans.
Scene Tells 'Rattle Story
That scene along the road told an
eloquent story. The Americans had
charged toward the road, only to be
met by German machine gunflie.
Rushing on and suffering losses, the
had bayoneted some of the gunners
and put others to night. Thev had
then taken positions on the north side
nf the road and met n counterattack.
I killing the Germans I saw lying be
I yond. The whole story of the battle
lay there plainly.
, One of his especially devilish ar-
rangements was placing an amount of
i high explosive In a conspicuous spot,
I connected with an ordinal y telephone
1 wire, reaching ahead Into his line.
I When he believed Americans weie
! near the trap he would set off the
explosive by electricity.
Numerous infernal machines were
I arinnged In dugouts so that any one
1 stepping Inside set them off Monday
a nile of ammunition exploded two
days after the enemy had left the spot.
it is believed It was set off by a time
bomb arrangement. Such mantraps
were found In many places and warn
ings against them were Issued to all
troops.
Million Good Shells Captured
The Americans made piompt use of
some of the captured boche material
Because of our rapid advance we had
need of extra engineers to work on
the badly shelled roads. A whole res -
manr rr mnnnnrt ., niniii lien witn
a stock of tools left behind by the Ger
mans. incidentally, in me i.erman
muterials left, 1,000,000 good 77 shells
have been counted.
Ludendoiff, in a statement Monday,
said that If they were German villages
which were being left behind It would
be dolorous, but fortunately the vil
lages left were not German. Accord
lng to the view In this armv a civil
ized person would have said that any
villages behind a German retreat were
dolorous villages. What the German
invaders did not do to the French
villages south of the Vesle the Amer
ican and French shells completed. It
I seehied almost a sacrilege to level so
many pretty little places, but Foch
I knew It was a greater sacrilege to
allow the enemy to stop in them and
la plans to attack Paris
AMERICANS BUILDING
BRIDGES UNDER FIRE
Lieutenant Braves German
Shelling Himself, but Keeps
Men Under Cover j
By the Associated Press I
With the American Arm; on the Vesle.
Aug 7.
The Germans appear to be determined ,
not to permit American engineers to I
throw bridges acrors the Vesle and as i
a result several American officers haxei
had thrilling experiences. The bridge i
builders had been eager to proceed with I
their work despite the German fire and
their officers have had to hold them
back.
Lieutenant V. F Mall, of California.
on Tuesday was under cover with sit
i men on tn0 south 1,ank awaiting a lull
I .V.A ".. V.llt . ... i ..it J
" uf winirtii -uciiiiik hi orr.er 10 mjuu
a orirtge.
. . ,
It Win tntPrMd tn lmllrl n I
footbridge
on the foundations of a
. 1.-1.3 J . 1 . . .. .-. ,
i"'uki: ui-iiojpu dj- ine i.ermans ami
' 'hen to put up a larger structure. Rather
than expose his :nen. Lieutenant Mail,
carrying two planks, started out on an
uploratlon trip b himself
The lieutenant r .u'hed the southern
pier just as the German machine gun
ners commenced a heavy fire l'his did
not stop him. He tossed one plank into
a tempoary position and then put the
othef In place from the south pier to the
pier in the mi I'll" rf tho river 'Ine
enemy Are becoming warmer. I.leutenr.nt
Mail jumped lino the river and toi,'
cover on the north bank Afterwards
.it recrossed to the t-outh bank and rt
ii ined his cornnu.no amid cheers Jmm
Mic soldiers
At another voir farther west "f
Ili-meg, Major Frj.rcls R New comber
sr.d Captain James P Grow den, duru.g
uii. light, felled a Uet across the Ve-le
ano crossed to the north bam. , wie
'i chopped dowr another trecwhlch
fell toward the southern bank Soon
afterwards they had completed a foot
bridge with the tree trunks af .Uri.ig-
tis. New-comber ana iinmun nan gono
a1"""5 ot ,he bridge-building gang to
th position and when the gang arrived
, 'y found tne work wur "an-i. ma
, enemy discovered tne rooiDrrage soon
afterward and sine? has tu'iiv.u.l it tj
. a "le'J ""
"LITTLE MAJOR" BRINGS LUCK
Chicago Salvation Army Man Has
Been "Over the Top"
Parli, Aug 7 John T Atkins who
-, a Snlvntlnn Armv mntnr In Phi
- '
I caE0, but who now Is serving with a
, famous battalion of the United States
I army as a Salvation Army worker, has
been mentioned in battalion and regi-
menl
' ..
mental orders and has been several
i """
He r
'ever the top" with the battalion.
has been acclaimed the most popular
man In the battalion and recommended I
for a commission as chaplain by the
regimental commander, I
"Major" Atkins, who Is known to the
officers and men of the battalion as "the
little major," to distinguish him from (
tne real major 01 ine organization, is
said to carry the good luck of the unit
with him. The boys believe that when
he is with them In an engagement their
casualties are light. On one occasion,
when a raid was to be undertaken, th
little major's unit suffered with only
four casualties, while the organization
which followed them Info action suffered
severely.
When payday was a long (Ime coming
recentl the little major gave each man
In the battalion an order for seven
francs on the canteen. Each took ad
vantage of tha "Jawbone," as the army
hnvi aall a. loaii. and when navrtav mm
Far north of tho rond, out of tho
wheat field, could be seen orderly rows
of nhcll holes, where our air artillery
had laid down a creeping barrage,
behind which the troops had moved
to the foe's positions nt tho edge of
the wood. Hero and there lay the
body of n boy In brown who had paid
tho great pi Ice.
On to the edge of the wood I walked,
and there was n picture that will ever
linger. In a pit, perhaps fifty feet
long, twenty feet wide and fifteen feet
deep, the Germans Had established a
strong position, with emplacements In
the sides for machine guns maybe
twenty of them. There In tho bottom
of the pit in utmost confusion lay
fifteen or so dead Germans and per
haps ten Americans. In front of the
pit lay nine dead of our men.
The Amci leans had charged thoe
machine guns even Into the pit. where
they fought hand-to-hand with the
gunners. It seemed that while fight
ing there In the cockpit a shell had
fallen among them.
All nlong the edge of the wood
smaller machine gun nests had been
broken up.
A more cheerful story wns told bv
the seen" Inside the wood, where I saw
fifty or sixty Geimans In u hundred
square yards, who had been killed bv I
high explosive shells where our guns I
had raked them In their flight. There
were virtually no American bodies
In the wood, but theie must have ben '
several hundred dead Germans
miry Americans Kirst
n t uinii: uui in in-; AMIIKI ;i iviry-
Ing detail was hard nt work Ainer
cans were burled first. In n lorn;
grae wc-ie being placed peihaps Mft
bodies of men fiom the I'nlted States
who had charged machine-gun nests
along the edge of the wood, one of the
ugliest fighting positions this war has
presented.
That was the last stand the Ger- j
m.ins made against the Americans be
fore they retired acio the
River.
Vesle
In a skirmish north of Flsms Mon
uaj me Americans tooK seven pi Ison-
era from the bortieth Prussian Quaid
Division, which had beMi put back
into the line after being taken out,
following its defeat by the Americans
nt Serlgy.
The Ameilcan offienrs were sur
prised to find that of these seven
men. who had just been plaied In the
Frfth Grenadier lleglment as replace
ment" six were Poles and smother
an AKatian
It was a surprise that such material
should be used to fill up one of the
Kalsei's crack regiments When asked
about It. the men teplled that the
enemy had no Prussians to fill up the
Prussian lcgimcnts cut up in the re
cent fighting. These Reven. when
asked what thev thought of the war.
replied. "We have had enough "
Talking to an officer who thought
that this repUcement situation was
very signlficint. 1 asked him If tho
ROO.000 soldiers of the new cl iss the
Germans would have this fall would
not make a difference in the situation,
lie replied:
"Germany has SOO.OOO new Geimans.
The Alllf have 5.000 000 new Ameii
cans."
By a dde road about a thnunnd
Amerlcnrs were resting during a hike.
The had not been In France as long
as some other units Down the road
came an American guard with six
FOCH IS AWARDED
MARSHAL'S BATON
Commander - in-Chief and
His Aide. Petain, Honoretl
by French Ministry
PERSHING IS DECORATED
PnrU. Aug. 7.
The Council of Ministers ha elevated
General Ferdinand Foch, commander-in-
chl-f of the Allied forces on the western
frr.nt. to a marshal of France
I The ministers also have conferred the
1 mllltar medal on General Tetaln com
i mander-in-chlef of the French armies on
I the western front.
President Polncare presided at the
' meeting of the council. Inprerenting
u - r i T.--.-U n ,- -m.
I uir iianie ii utiiciui ruLii, i iiini'! iC"
i ,,,,"-r,u "M,u
I . t- .,.. 1 . ...I !-- ,
; -w ine nuur ncii me enemy, uy a
formidable offensive on a front nf inn
kilometers, counted on snatching the
decision and Imposing a German peace
upon u. General Foch and his admira
ble troops vanquished him
"Paris is not In danger, Soissons and
Chateau-Thierry have ben reconquered
and more than 200 villages have baen
delivered Thirty-five thousand prison
ers and 700 cannon have been captured,
and the enemy's high hopes before the
attack have been crushed The glorious
Mlled armies have thrown him from the
binks of the Marne to the Aisne Such
are the results of the high command's
strategy, BUperbly executed by ineom-
I parable ' commanders The
iac.ea by the republic and
connaence
placed by the republic and by all the
allies in the conqueror of St Gond. the
Ysr and the Somme has been fully Jus
tified
The awarding of the Medalile Milltalre
to General Petain lsa distinction rarely
given to officers, the decoration gen
erally beinc reserved for enlisted men.
Marshal Joffre Is one of the few officers
who have received this honor
President Polncare visited American
headquarters yesterday afternoon and
presented to General John J. Pershing,
commander-in-chief of the American ex
peditionary forces, the Grand Cross of
the Legion of Honor
The ceremony took place in the
presence of General Pershing's staff and
detachments of French and American
tioops.
During the presentation President
Polncare expressed his compliments to
General Pershing for what he termed
the grand success of the Americans In
the recent fighting
Seeley's Adjusto Rupture Pad
Increaitt efficiency of a truts S0a
Thumb g
Kifuttor
GREATEST RUPTURE RETAINER
The teM-adJuitlnt feature of this Tad
make It -' to wear, and the Ihamb-M-rew
lUiulator atiawa of alterlnc prei.
ure ut will. Moat rupture, crow alowlr
wenie braur truie that neeinetl rltlit
In the lircinnlnc were not. Our Improved
apnllanrra and adraiMod metbooa buura
ImproTeweo for every caao ana cure
manr.
rsafia k?C
'G35EK23 s- i
prisoners. When the new Americans
saw who they were they sprang up
as one man und gaied nt them. Then
one of them, a lad from North Caro
lina. Rpnke:
"So them's bodies! May God lead
us to them."
That Is tho spirit of all the Amer
icans who have had no share thus far
In tho victorious fighting. Tho men
are eager for their chance, and art
sure that they can do Just a little
better than their comrades who have
been lucky enough to get Into the
fighting. Perhaps many of them will
soon get their chance, for If the policy
of Foch continues to be what it has
been since the enemy quit Chateau
Thlerry.constant pressure will be kept
on his rear for divs to come.
Tho mure the Allies press the harder
It will be for the- enemy to establish
u strong line of i esNtanfo. for despite
Hlndenburg nnd IidndorlT and "Hard
I.uclc Willie," as the British call the
Crown Prince a reti eating army, It Is
held, cannot be iitopped In Its trncks
bv waving n German Mag In Us face.
Our gunners are now keeping the
(tpimans husy, and our Infnntry
stands waiting Its turn to advance
again.
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r .CSlOMI 1 3 JtV lIMLL.
tvt rri tirrn vttv ir'Ki
UN iKAYLR WHtM
nurnio i nn j-s-kiii-
AMJLKICANS CUMfcj
f
Hid
!m Cave for Five Week'
Under Gorman Guard Thank
ful for Kclcnc
fty the Associated 'rrs
Vi Itll the .iurrlcnn Army on tile Alnne
Mnrnp Front, Aug 7
Ninety French peasants, who had been
fixing iti a large cave near Ville-Savoye,
southwest of Flsmes, were rescued by
tho Americans, after having passed
through to battles and remaining prls-
oners to the Germans for live weeks
When discovered by the Americans the
peasants wen- nearly starved, theirscant
supplies of food haxlng been almost ex
hausted he fore the last battle of the
Vesle began
The eae loimerly was a quarry, and
when the Germans arrlxed In the neigh
bor hood, In the latter part of May, the
peasants round about Vllle-Saoje as
sembled In the cae rather than le.ue
the lcinlty of their homes The en
trance to the cave was at the foot of a
hill, great layers of rock and earth act
ing as h encrlng.
Many shells had struck close to the
roof, several t ploding dircctlv oxer
the place where the peasants had taken
refugee, but the thick rock and earth
i oof was not damaged.
The peasants took all the supplies
possible from their farms, but finally
were compelled to appeal tn the Gei
mans for additional food. They were
glxen an allowance so scanty that they
were compelled to forage for sustenance,
but this procedure was difficult owing
lo the "fact th.it the Invaders allowed
them to seek food only within a pre
FLrlbed area.
The refugees mainly were elder ly men
and women, with a few children. When
the Americans arrived many of the
peasants knelt In prayer at their de
liverance. German press views
WAR pessimistically
T .itct rn, . f T '
1-idICsl Wmment Ot Kerent
Events Shows Tone of
D
espondency
By the Associated Press
London, Aug 7
The despondent tone of the latest Ger
man press comments is emphasized daily
in special dispatches from Holland A
dispttch to the Pally Mail from The
( Hague today includes an editorial by the
nnM,.rf v,.w.K... ...ui.,
I"..,, ,"," 7"l""y"u,at
nohody looking nto the future can see
.,
an end to Hie war
"For though it is true that the end
might come quicklv " It adds. "It could
onlv be an end of terror, ns tn Russia."
The Vorwaerts. of Berlin, says that
events of recent days at last have shat-
tered the illuion. cr-ated by inspired o'p -
tlmism that Gcrmanv is invincible It from the line of Ambleny, Courvere
says- I and Montgobert and the eastern fringe
"The German people at last realize the of the, forest of Villers-Cotterets In a
rolr.ssal gravity of the situation. Let us ' series of successful local actions, and
have courage to admit that as long as finally In getting 11 footing across the
the war is not ended It Is not won nnd Saviere Valley, which afforded an ad
can be lost " j imliacle "Jumplng-oft place." Attack-
i n !... f-s-,tn h (a na. -A 1.1. 1
Community Store
We Serve ds Tfou Save
w:
'ITH1N the
above sign'
windows of
stores throughout Philadelphia, eastern
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Dela
ware. It is placed there to tell you that
your neighborhood grocer has united his
store and his personal efforts in a move
ment .that keeps down buying costs of
standard products, to themselves and to
you it tells you that there you can
ALWAYS be assured of real price
economies of a real and complete
store service and the owner's personal
interest and desire to serve you honestly
and well.
The sign is a standard to "go buy"
where buying is made easy.
There's a Store
m
GEN. MANGIN DESCRIBES
GREAT ALLIED VICTORY
Carefully Planned and Executed, He Characterizes Of
fensive As a Regular Classic Battle of Maneu
ver Sudden Attack Shocks Foe
Dy WALTER
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
Copyright, in8, bu Xtw York Time) Co,
Willi the Krenoli Annies, Aug, 7.
In n dainty study, the gilded furni
ture nnd delicate ornaments of which
contrasted strangely with tho staff
maps, marked with colored chalk lines,
nnd shell fuses, paper weight and field
telephone on the desk, General Man
gin gave your correspondent a de
scription of the battle which one of
tho highest of France's war chiefs told
me ,i few days ngo marked tho turning
point of the war.
The general stood squarely before
the maps, motionless, save for a quick
glance at my face now and then as If
to emphasize tho salient point of his
narrative
I.Ike nil the distinguished Flench
soldiers I have met. he wns devoid of
gestures. These are popularly sup
posed to be essential to IVenchmcn.
"It wns a regular classic battle of
maneuver." he said. "The hattlo
opened with the driving back of the
enemy's line ten kilometers In the first
two days under the shock of a sudden
attack. Then he brought up reserves
and rallied.
"After that the objective was clear
nnd definite. It was the eastern end
of the long ledge that runs unbroken
snve bv the Ravlere Valley from west
of Vlllers Cotterets Forest to the re.
glnn of Grand Ro7oy nnd Arcy.
"That was the kev position of the
struggle, as It dominated the north
western plateau towmd Soissons,
which wns the bastion of the onemv's
resistance Once the master of thnt
on Aucust 2 the enemv's retreat was
Inevitable He knew It, too, and the
battle was won."
.Situation Before I lie Rattle
Before discussing the details of the
notion, the general situation previous
to July lf can he stated as follows:
"It is hardly doubtful that the
Chemin de'-Dnmes drive of May 27
was not only intended to carry the
Germans beyond the Alsne. Their
puipos" wns tn get a strong defensive
position. In view of a possible flank
attack during later operations against
the center of the French-British lino
In pursuance nf the plan carried out
In the March battle. Rightly enough
finding the resistance less than they
expected the exploited their success
to the ujmost. and finallv reached the
Marne. That formed a deep nnd com
parattvelv narrow pocket, the essen
tial weakness of which (exposure to
an ntttack from (he western flank) no
soldier could Ignore
"Thev nccordlnglv attempted to
widen It wetw.i'-d. without much suc
cess, snve in the north, where th
occupation of Solsons ravp them ill
rect railroad communication from
I.aon tn the lines nlong the Alsne
ind Vesle nnd to Fere-en-Tardenois.
land a hroad high road to Chateau
I Thierry " '
' The drive toward Complegne nbout
ten days later was a pendant to the
former action, the ohiect beinc to fiat-
ten out the salient by a turning move-
ment round the forests of Complegne
nnd Villers-Cotterets. Checked there
hv the June counter-attack which
Mangln commanded on the left of the
hattlefront. tho enemy launched a new
I blow.
This wns made on the following day
against the northeast corner of the
Villers-Cotterets Forest, hut again the
advance waj strictly limited nnd the
angle of the pocket remained acute.
Mnnsln Takes Command
Soon afterward Mangln took com
mand of the armv. holding the front
from the Alsne to the Ourcq. nnd pro-
j s ..I nAa1 tt1 nvAllmlnaim
1 ceeneu vikuiuuii; h i"'i
I operations in view of counter-stroke
' "'"-'"" ,,.., ,. . , . ,
against the flank of the salient which
' , , , . , . , ,
the F''nch nll?h roram'n,! had nl,"eaf,-v
decided to make at the first favorably
opportunltv
Tho work of pieparatlon for Foch's
! creat counter-offensive consisted In
i giaduall driving the enemy back
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lng from the vantage point of heights
broken by ravines, where the concen
tration of troops can be hidden, Is. a
very different thing from being forced
to conquer tho same positions heTorc
the nssaultlng force can bo properly
launched.
The month preceding July IB was
thus occupied, and care was taken to
vary operations by local strokes fur
ther north toward the Alsne In order
to lull the enemy's suspicions
At the same time, the general na
ture of the Allied movements could
not fall to be remarked, and, Indeed,
It Is known from seized German pa
pers, hat tho enemy thought It likely
that a stroke would be attempted
either on the Fourth or July 14. He
strengthened his lino considerably,
against such an eventuality, no less
than eight divisions, with six In re
serve, being assembled facing Man
gin's army.
Germans Underestimated Blow
But the Germans never expected a
blow of such magnitude, nnd their high
command especially seems to have
utterly underestimated ' the Allied
strength and nggresslveness.
What followed Is already history.
On July 15 tho storm broke east and
west of Rhelms, nnd, thnnks to Gour
aud's magnificent defense, the pilncl-
pal strategic result of the first thteo
days was Just the deepening to a sui
cidal extent of the already dangcious
and overnnrrow pocket. Foch realized
that the moment was ripe for tne exe
cution of the plan for which Mangln
and DeGoutto had prepared under the
direction of Fayolle and Petnln. The
credit belongs not to any one man. but
to the whole French organization,
from tioops and local commanders
who carried out the preliminary spade
work and the corps commanders and
army generals who laid down the
lines on which the plan was executed,
to the headquarteis staff nnd the Al
lied gencralllslmo. who wi-s rcsnonst
ble for Its Inception.
Bv noon of July in Foch's decision
had been taken und the hour of the
counter-offensive had been appointed.
To resume, those three days were
employed In putting finishing touches
on the preparations by the assemblage
of a mass of troops, guns, tanks and
materia) behind the screen of the VII
lors-Cotterets Forest.
The blow took the Germans complete
ly by surprise, not so much by Its
coming when nnd where It did, but by
Its extent and, above all. Its character.
Never did they think the Allies would
dare assault without artillery prepara
tion with Infantry solely supported by
tanks and a creeping barrage.
The first day the Allied success was
greatest In the northern sector where
the Franco-Amerlcnns. debouching
from vantage points In the region of
Coeurves, swept forward eight full
kilometers, gathering rich booty In
guns and ptlsoners nnd In the ravines
around Pcrnann, MIssy-au-Bols and
Longpont.
Ten Kilometers In Two Days
The right wing made slower prog
ress against the strong positions oi
Hautwlson nnd Troesnes Woods, but
once those were passed by the first
evening they. too. advanced rapidly,
nnd by the end of the second day
the whole line had gono forward to
an average depth of ten kilometers
You may Judge the dismay of the
enemv from the fnet that a captured
Ha vat Inn officer of the Eleventh divi
sion, which fought bravely, said bit
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tho 281st Saxons, whom tho Allies
took In their beds near Missy: "They
wero lucky to be prisoners! for they
would reitalnly liavo been shot by a
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Whole Saxon division was disgraceful."
Meanwhile Mangln has safeguarded
his left flank by a limited push north
ward, and at the tarns time De Ooutte
had kept pace with the advance on the
right.
Thnt ended the first phase of the
battle. Its effect was Immediate.
The enemy, realizing the danger, at
once began evacuating the pocket from
tho bottom and the movement of with
drawal was accentunted rapidly In tho
left-hand corner as the Allied menace
developed ngalnst the Chateau-Thierry
highway and Fere railroad.
From the night of tho 10th the Ger
mans began the retreat of which the
Soissons positions opposite tho Allied
left and center were the pivot. That
facilitated the task of Do Goutte, but
rendered Mangln's harder. These re
serves came from three directions
from tho northwest nnd cast by rail
and camion In hot haste without their
artillery, whose work was done by the
guns already In position north of the
Alsne, and from the south, with a
full complement of guns, as the shock
divisions were diverted by the Crown
Prince from the original purpose of
the Marne offensive.
Counler-AttaiUs Withdrawn
Between the 18th nnd 3tst of July
twenty-eight enemy divisions, includ
ing two from Crown Prince Rupprecht,
vv'ere Identified on the front of this
army, but the Allies pushed on despite
them. On the morning of the 28th
Mangln was In position to deliver the I
first nttack on the dominant ridge of i
which I spoke nt the beginning. The i
resistance and counter-attacks were i
desperate,, but the dogged fury of the
French nnd British wore then down. I
At dawn on August 1 the Allies
struck again, and Jhls time got right
up on the crest of the ridge that was
the Vital "cemetery hill" of the bat
tle. Between 9 and 11 the enemy
countered with the utmost determina
tion, but Mangln held his ground. I
Then came a lull, and nt 4 a resump
tion of the struggle, ns the last Ger
man reserves, the fresh Eighteenth '
shock division from Rupprecht's fiont
near Arras, was thrown In. But the
enemy felt his grip slipping. Hardly i
were the advance guards of tho Eight
enth signaled debouching for a mass
nttack from I-aundy Wood, when they
were seen to move hurriedly back
ngaln, nnd when at length the coun-1
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