Canning Germans.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 4 July 1918, Page 3

Canning Germans.

"DOUGHBOYS* " BRILLIANT EXPLOIT. Received this day, 11.25 a.m. , London, July ■!. lho Daily Chronicle's correspondent at American headquarters Bays the Americans scored again in an operation in the Marne Valley, capturing 1 Yaux and 400 prisoners m forty minutes. The attack was the logical development of the earlier successes in the Chateau Thierry sector and entailed clearing the La Roche wood and the occupation of the knod-like crest callcd Hill 192. Vans was heavily garrisoned and the defenders had machineguns, hut the Americans found a French jnason builder who knew the interior of almost every house. Scouting "parties were sent out night. after night, thus craftily drawing the machine gun fire and when everything was known the attack was launched. There were 4000 Huns in Vaux when the American bombardment commenced and all but TOO fled before the "doughboys" went over the top. The Americans closely hugged an almost perfect barrage,- advancing on a two-mile front. In 23 minutes they wore inside Vaux and had taken Hill 192 in 2G minutes. The American machinery was too perfect for the Germans. There, is no doubt now that the United States is in the war.