The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . d Fismes in force, the Americans kept up a steady firewith field-mortars and some 37-mm. guns. Fighting was 294 FOCHS GREAT VICTORIES from house to house, but when night fell again the Germansonly held the northern end of the village, and next daywere driven across the Vesle. The division in six days hadfought its way successfully for 18 kilometers, ending withtaking Fismes by assault. Of fighting on the crossing of theVesle, Colonel Henry Hodge, the Am
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . d Fismes in force, the Americans kept up a steady firewith field-mortars and some 37-mm. guns. Fighting was 294 FOCHS GREAT VICTORIES from house to house, but when night fell again the Germansonly held the northern end of the village, and next daywere driven across the Vesle. The division in six days hadfought its way successfully for 18 kilometers, ending withtaking Fismes by assault. Of fighting on the crossing of theVesle, Colonel Henry Hodge, the American bridge-buildingengineer, returning home after the war, said it was a mostdifficult work for an army to peform because, altho theVesle is a narrow and shallow river, the Germans had filledits bed with barbed wire. Before the Americans had com-pleted the work of crossing 10,000 men had been lost onthis front.*^ 20 Principal Sources: Tlie Military Expert of The New York Times, Gen-eral Ludendorffs report of his retreat, Renter dispatches, William L. McPher-son in The New York Tribune; The Sun, The Evening Post, The Tribune, © PRESS ILLUSTRATING SERVICE. LiEfT. Frank Luke, conspicuous gallantry in action, Luke, an American aviator wholost his life in the war with a score of 18, was accorded the Con-gressional Medal of Honor 295 IV THE ALBERT-MONTDIDIER SALIENT WIPED OUT AND PERONNE, ROYE AND NOYON RECOVERED —FOCHS BLOW WITH HIS LEFT FIST August 3, 1918—August 27, 1918 ON August 8 Foch struck the Germans another staggeringblow, this time using his left fist. Realizing thatthe German Crown Princes forces were still groggy, aspugilists might say, from the blow which knocked themout of the Marne pocket, and that the divisions borrowed byhim from the Bavarian Crown Prince had not been returned,he seized an opportunity to smash into the Albert-Montdidiersalient. British and French troops in one day penetrated toa maximum of seven and one-half miles, and along
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