Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

The Crown Prince’s drive for Paris, a week and a day old, has entered into the deadlock phase. At some vital points of the new attacking line between Noyon and Chateau Thierry, a front of eighty miles, the eighth day of the great battle saw the French again victoriously on the aggressive. On their left, northwest of Soissons, they recaptured Montchoisy for the fifth time and beat down all German attempts to push . forward between the Oise and the Aisne. In the center, between the Aisne and Ourcq rivers, they held the forest of Villers Cotterets against fur-' ioUS German attempts to penetrate it. “Bloody losses” were inflicted on the enemy here, Paris announces officially. Two miles to the southeast, the poilus recaptured Faverolles, wrested fro mthem the day before. On their right, between the Ourcq and Marne rivers, the French held their own. At Rheiins, which is still firmly held by the allies, the Germans made no progress whatever. The Franco-British held their gains around Champlan, southeast of the Cathedral City. Perhaps the most important success was scored in holding the Teutons at bay west of Soissons, .where the Crown Prince is bending might and main to link the Soissons-Cha-teau Thierry front with the southern leg of the Genqan Picardy wedge. Today there were strong indications that neither side is willing to let things rest with the deadlock,but are determined to fight “this battle for Paris” here and now. The French official night communique reports fresh German forces on the scene of battle. The German war office speaks at length of French reserves arriving from “far distant fronts.” It looks, therefore, as if the “battle of the reserves” was about to begin, if, indeed, it is not already under way. Terrific air fighting marked the last two days’ fighting. Between them the French and British put sev-enty-nine German machines out of action, while Berlin reports the “bagging” -of thirty-one entente planes.