BACK FROM THE MARNE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16925, 10 August 1918, Page 8

BACK FROM THE MARNE.

• AMERICANS PURSUE ENEMY. ' J LONDON, July » !' Tffil Paris correspondent of the New York . Herald says that the enemy's rearguards left to stop the American advance were killed and captured everywhere. Prisoners indicato that the Germans intend to fall back to the Ourcq, where they intend strongly to resist. The Marne offensive was evidently prepared on a gigantic scale, as tons of provisions, and masses of shells have been Bent back. Prisoners state that they were ordered. to retreat four kilometres daily., The Times correspondent at I American headquarters says that the Americans advanced four miles on Thursday, swept through the forest of Fere, ana entered Ris l'orest. , , En route they skilfully outflanked isolated machine-gunners concealed in wheat fields, holes, and tree tops, who were coveri' 1 - tho main retreat. After preliminary rifle fire, tho Americans crept up to the machine-gunners and rushed them with the bayonets. The Germans usually cried " Kamerad" instantly the Americans were seen. Aeroplanes were employed as airbombers to assist in the retreat, but were seldom effective. The Germans carried numbers of captured American- wounded from village to village, and > then abandoned them. Their comrades later picked them up.«