Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1918 — U. S. ARTILLERY STOPS NEW DRIVE ON MARNE RIVER [ARTICLE]

U. S. ARTILLERY STOPS NEW DRIVE ON MARNE RIVER

Terrific Counter-Bombardment " Smothers Attempted Attack Hear Chateau Thierry.. TOWN OF VAUX IN RUINS Alt Buildings in Village Are Leveled— Indiana Officer Credited With Capture of First Five Huns in Last Battle. With the Americans on the Marne, I July 5. —American artillery continues to demonstrate its complete control of the new front west of Chateau Thierry. Once or twice the German guns opened up, suggesting another counterattack, but the <ftr was soon seething with American shells, smothering .the enemy fire, and no infantry demonstrations resulted. The Americans are steadily strengthening their new positions and are prepared for any eventuality. I found them in the afternoon in the midst of the wrecking of Vaux, which is. a per- ; feet monument to the efficiency of American artillery fire. Town Is Laid Level. t Not a single building escaped. Not a second «tory remains and only a [few of rhe first floors are intact. Whole blo- fr- were flattened out into heaps of bricks, stones and tiles, r I met Lieut. H. A. Mongray of Laporte. Ind., who is credited with, cap- : taring the first five Germans in Vaux. f “When the barrage ended, we rushed in.” he said. “Five Germans climbed [oar i.f a hole. They and I yelled i‘Handehohe* (bands up) simultaneously. I guess I yelled the loudest and they put theirs up. That’s all there is to it.” Fogs Flyers Defeated. Nine German airmen started over at I night to avenge the defeat early ! Wednesday of another Boche squadI run. Four and possibly six of the sec’otni bunch failed to return. An American balloon gave the warn- • tag and nine Americans met the Ger- ' mans inside the latter’s lines. In the .brief battle that ensued, the Germans fetang together, spiraling upward and ©ring downward. One at a time, four • .f the German machines collapsed and |feG. Two others almost certainly crashed. Lleuts. Ralph A. O’Neil of Arizona, f john H. Stevens of Albany, N. Y.; Kenneth Parker of Dowagiac, Mich.; Tyler O. Bronson of New York city, :ind Indianapolis and Cleveland Me- ■ iennott of Syracuse, N. Y., each be.lieve they got one Boche. One of the wings of McDermott’s mai -htae was shot off, but he fell* within the American lines. The German communique, describ'tag the loss of four American planes, in this fizht, is an untruth. I r ’■