Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

American troops, brigaded with Foch’s French, reserves, “stonewalled” the crown prince’s drive on Paris and as a sort of “side show” hurled a venturesome German battalion back across the Marne. This was for America—and for the world, for that matter —the biggest piece of news that came from the blood-drenched fields of combat along and north of the Marne on the ninth day of the “battle for Paris.” “Half a million men of the type that 'captured Cantigny helped, us make a stand on the Marne sufficient in my opinion, to swing the balance of victory in our favor.” So spoke a French colonel to a staff correspondent of the International News Service at the front. Whether he meant that half .a million Americans are now fighting on that historic battle ground northeast of Paris, or whether ho included Frenchmen in the figure is not clear. His remark confirms what the Paris war office report had indicated earlie* in the day: that Pershing’s boys played the decisive role in the crucial phase of this German monster offensive. In the critical moment of that critical battle —the Germans were getting ominously doser to the rail keys of the French capital, Compiegne and Villers-Cotterets—-“Black Jack” Pershing was Blnocher to the allies.

Cherry as the day’s nows was, however, it does not mean that the crisis is over and that henceforth there will be easy sailing. On the contrary, the allied supreme war council, in reporting on its sixth session, explicity warns that grave days are s till ahead and that every ounce of resistance must be mustered to parry the blows that ape still to come. The French on their part gained ground in counter attacks north of Moulin-Sous-Touvent, northwest of Soissons. They threw the Germans back out of the forest of Villors-Cot-terets, which is the eastern bastion protecting the town of the same name, and field he invaders in the wood’s eastern outskirts.