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1918-06-08 Clipping: ""To The Trenches"" Page 2
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ily CONTINENT ews Many Hours in Advance of any 1 year 70.00 106.00 Paris, 36, Rue du S MARINES NEW GAINS STRAIGHTENED. ER ACTIVITY AHEAD. From HERBERT BAILEY TH THE AMERICAN ARMY. Friday. ericans have attained yet another day. Yesterday evening the Ger- nter -attacked in an endeavour to territory lost that morning in of Venilly [north-west of weer]. The American Marines, now been fighting for four days, to meet them and an intense nsued, which continued through- ght. Again the Germans counter- only to be shattered by the accu- , machine-gun and artillery fire mericans. he Americans advanced. Con- achine-guns and heavy artillery uding a tremendous barrage that as far as Lucy, greeted them. For he the issue was uncertain. The rounded up gun after gun in a d during the night, but early this they had captured Bussiares and as that runs through it, while their line ran from just south which the enemy is evacuating, elleau Wood, half of which the was also taken ing, while another unit operat- right of the famous Marines ward last night and occupied nd the Cherambauts Wood, eir new positions against all cks by the enemy. has thus been advanced another in one sector and 4,000 in at the Americans have obtained ives in this fighting it would not curate to say, for they have no as one of their officers pointed to-day but an object--the staying ogress of the German advance, they certainly have achieved. IOR FORCES DEFEATED. rines themselves have been forced very superior numbers. In fact, separate days prisoners from inct enemy divisions have been Whether, however, one Ameri- has been fighting three enemy a matter of doubt, but so far ascertained the Marines have Russian and Bavarian Landwehr ned into Ersatz divisions. e these successes have not been without losses, but so far as one in view of the high importance work, the casualties are not dis- ate. Along the roads from the Paris American wounded can be ey are cheerful men, and take nds as all in the great "LET US PEOPL MR. LLOYD APPE CRISIS NOT Mr. Lloyd George rep the toast "Successto at the dinner of the Prin ciation in London, pro Baden-Powell, said that ration of Britishers has sacrifices along with purpose and a high ideal. "I have only just returned he said. "and I met there statesman [presumably M who had been up to the front the battle in which the A part. He was full of ad merely of their superb valo trained skill with which the defeated the foe. "His reports on the American troops and of t had been in action for the one of the most encoura I had heard because they (applause)--they are co There is a great flow." "The fact that we kn continued," "that whn the battle line they w manner worthy of the and its [illegible] traditions support, sustenance and those who with anxious h ing the struggle. It fo Allies were not to succe sorry world to live in. FATE OF THE "At most times people exaggerate the events of t were occasions when ge under-estimated the sign It was impossible to exagg ance or significance of which we were confront of the world, the destin lives of generations w by the failure or trium "The struggle to-day more material, more brutal than any whic impose itself upon Eu tempt for human li contempt for human to succeed it would into the darkest d ("Hear, hear.") "We are paying a a sad price, but it in value what we wer We were passing thr and the crisis was n stout hearts we sho (cheers)--and then w (cheers)--which in the ti nd the human r (Cheers) It
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ily CONTINENT ews Many Hours in Advance of any 1 year 70.00 106.00 Paris, 36, Rue du S MARINES NEW GAINS STRAIGHTENED. ER ACTIVITY AHEAD. From HERBERT BAILEY TH THE AMERICAN ARMY. Friday. ericans have attained yet another day. Yesterday evening the Ger- nter -attacked in an endeavour to territory lost that morning in of Venilly [north-west of weer]. The American Marines, now been fighting for four days, to meet them and an intense nsued, which continued through- ght. Again the Germans counter- only to be shattered by the accu- , machine-gun and artillery fire mericans. he Americans advanced. Con- achine-guns and heavy artillery uding a tremendous barrage that as far as Lucy, greeted them. For he the issue was uncertain. The rounded up gun after gun in a d during the night, but early this they had captured Bussiares and as that runs through it, while their line ran from just south which the enemy is evacuating, elleau Wood, half of which the was also taken ing, while another unit operat- right of the famous Marines ward last night and occupied nd the Cherambauts Wood, eir new positions against all cks by the enemy. has thus been advanced another in one sector and 4,000 in at the Americans have obtained ives in this fighting it would not curate to say, for they have no as one of their officers pointed to-day but an object--the staying ogress of the German advance, they certainly have achieved. IOR FORCES DEFEATED. rines themselves have been forced very superior numbers. In fact, separate days prisoners from inct enemy divisions have been Whether, however, one Ameri- has been fighting three enemy a matter of doubt, but so far ascertained the Marines have Russian and Bavarian Landwehr ned into Ersatz divisions. e these successes have not been without losses, but so far as one in view of the high importance work, the casualties are not dis- ate. Along the roads from the Paris American wounded can be ey are cheerful men, and take nds as all in the great "LET US PEOPL MR. LLOYD APPE CRISIS NOT Mr. Lloyd George rep the toast "Successto at the dinner of the Prin ciation in London, pro Baden-Powell, said that ration of Britishers has sacrifices along with purpose and a high ideal. "I have only just returned he said. "and I met there statesman [presumably M who had been up to the front the battle in which the A part. He was full of ad merely of their superb valo trained skill with which the defeated the foe. "His reports on the American troops and of t had been in action for the one of the most encoura I had heard because they (applause)--they are co There is a great flow." "The fact that we kn continued," "that whn the battle line they w manner worthy of the and its [illegible] traditions support, sustenance and those who with anxious h ing the struggle. It fo Allies were not to succe sorry world to live in. FATE OF THE "At most times people exaggerate the events of t were occasions when ge under-estimated the sign It was impossible to exagg ance or significance of which we were confront of the world, the destin lives of generations w by the failure or trium "The struggle to-day more material, more brutal than any whic impose itself upon Eu tempt for human li contempt for human to succeed it would into the darkest d ("Hear, hear.") "We are paying a a sad price, but it in value what we wer We were passing thr and the crisis was n stout hearts we sho (cheers)--and then w (cheers)--which in the ti nd the human r (Cheers) It
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