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PAYS HIGHEST TRIBUTE.
(Continued from page 2, column 4.)
. forest of Argonne, was taken over,
L the Second Colonial French, holding
^ the tip of the salient opposite St.
Mihiel, and the French Seventeenth
Corps on the heights above Verdun
being transferred to General Pershjng's
command. f
' The combined French, British and
American air forces mobilized for the
battle, the report says, was the largIest
aviation assembly ever engaged
on the western front up to that time
in a single operation.
{ Of the reduction of the St. Mihiel
r salient, General Pershing says:
After foui5 hours artillery preparation
the seven American divisions
in the front line advanced at 5
^ a. m., on September 12, assisted by
a limited number of tanks, manned
partly by Americans and partly by
|H the French. These divisions, accom
panied by groups of wire cutters and
HF others armed with bargalore torpeW
does,' went through, the successive
banks of barbed wire thfet protected
p the enemy's front line and support
r trenches, in irristible waves on
| schedule time, breaking down all
defense of an enemy demoralized by
. the great volume of our artillery fire
\ and our sudden approach out or the
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* "Our. First Corps advanced to
^ Thiaucourt, while our Fourth Corps
Curved back to the southwest
I t through Nonsard. The Second Colonial
French Corps made the slight
advance required of it on very diffi'I
cult ground and the Fifth Corps took
if*"} its three ridges and repulsed a coun'
terattack. A rapid march brought
reserve regiments of a division of the
l . dpifth Corps into Vigneuiles in the
a, early morning, where it linked up
^ I With patrols of our Fourth Corps,
i % closing the salient ond forming a
k ^new line west of Thiacourt to VigBv:
neulles, and beyond Fresmes-en
Woevre.
the cost of only 7,000 casualties,
mostly light, we had taken 16,000
prisoners and 443 guns, a great
^ quantity of material, released the
HH inhabitants of many Tillages from
J^oiemy domination, and established
oar lines in a position to threaten
Metz.. >
H "The signal success of the Amerifev
can First army in its first offensive
was of prime importance. The allies
fbund they had a formidable army
to aid them and the enemy learned
L -V-fiddly that he had one to reckon
with."
; /| The report shows for the first time
officially that with this brilliantly
-executed coup, General Pershing's
naien had cleared the way for the
|Kf ?Pat effort of the allied and AmeriR
can foites to win a conclusive vic|rV-V
tory. The American army moved at
toward the crowning achieveI-'l.
ment, the battle of the Meuse.
|!|X , The general tells a dramatic story
r this mighty battle in three dis^
tinct phrases, beginning on the night
of'September 27, when the Ameriv
<?&ns quickly took the places of the
t % Jfrench on. the thinly held line of
k|' this long quiet sector. The attack
R ;' opened on September 26 and the
* trTi ontnnff'lA
E s&yAinericaiis uiwo wivu5u ?0-_
i ments, across No-Man's-Land to take
? all the enemy's first line positions.
: Closing the chapter, General Persh^
ikg. says:
|?r "On November 6 a division of the
First Corps reached a point on the
?B/. "Meuse/opposite Sedan, 25 miles from
y Tr our line of departure. The strateglcal
goal which was our highest
hope was gained. We had cut the
(? eriemy's main line of communications,
and nothing but surrender
6* ail armistice could save his army
' from complete disaster.
^ 5 'Many Prisoners Taken.
V*"In all 40 enemy divisions had
v|?>;sbeen ysed against us in the MeuseArgonne
battle. Between September
26 and November 6 we took 26,059
B'; prisoners and 468 guns on this front,
p. Our divisions engaged were the
i>V Phcst, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth,
Twenty-sixth, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth,
Thirty-second, Thirty-third,
Thirty-fifth, Thirty-seventh, Fortysecond,
Seventy-seventh, Seventy**
4 ^ Piorlltioth
eigntn, oeveuij-uium,
?.% Eighty-second, Eighty-ninth, NineI
. tieth and Ninety-first. Many of our
? ^divisions remained in line for a
Ifc? length of time that required nerves
Kpt of steel, while others were sent in
TT again after only a few days of rest,
k The First, Twenty-sixth, Forty-sec'
ond, Seventy-seventh, Eightieth,
Eighty-ninth, and Ninetieth were in
the line twice. Although some of
the divisions were fighting their first
battle, they soon became equal to
the best."
The commander in chief does not
lose sight of the divisions operating
with French or British armies during
this time. He tells of the work
of the Second Corps, comprising the
1 Twenty-seventh and Thirtieth Divisions
in the British assault on the
Hindenburg line where the St. Quentin
canal passes through a 'tunnel;
of how the Second and Thirty-sixth
Divisions got their chance in October
by being assigned to aid the French
in the drive from Rheims and of the
splendid fighting of the Twenty-sev&
F
enth and Ninety-first Divisions sent
to join the French army in Belgium.
Of the total strength of the expeditionary
force, General Pershing
reports:
"There are in Europe altogether
j including a regiment and some sanij
tary uits with the Italian army and
j the organization at Murmansk, also
including those en route from the
States, approximately 2,053,347 j
men, less our losses. Of this total
j there are in France 1,338,169 com-J
batant troops. Forty divisions have
arrived, of which the infantry personnel
of 10 have been used as replacements,
leaving 30 divisions now
in France organized into three armies
of three corps each."
Of their equipment he says:
"Our entry into the war found us
with few of the auxiliaries necessary
for its conduct in the modern sense.
Among: our most important deficien
cies in material were artillery, aviation
and tanks. In order to meet our
requirements as rapidly as possible,
we accepted the offer of the French
government to provide us with the
necessary artillery equipment of seventy-fives,
one fifty-five millimeter
howitzers and one fifty-five G P F,
guns from their own factories for
thirty divisions. The wisdom of this
course is fully demonstrated by the
fact that, although we soon began
the manufacture of these classes of
guns at home, there were no guns
of the calibre mentioned manufactured
in America on our front at
the date the armistice was signed.
The only guns of these types produced
at home thus far recived in
France are 109 seventy-five millimeter
guns.
Help From French.
"In aviation we were in the same
situation and here again the French
government came to our aid until
our own aviation programme should
be under way. We obtained from
tne rrencn me necessary yiaues iui
training our personnel and they
have provided us with a total of
2,676 pursuit, observation and bombing
planes. The first airplanes received
from home arrived in May,
and altogether we have received 1,379.
The first American sq.uadron
completely equipped by American
\production, including airplanes,
crossed the German lines on August
7, 1918. As to tanks, we were also
compelled to rely upon the French.
Here, however, we were less fortunate,
for the reason that the French
production could barely meet the requirements
of their own armies.
"It should be fully 'realized that
the French government has always
taken a most liberal' attitude and
has been most anxious to give us
every possible assistance in meeting
our deficiencies in these as well as
in other respects. Our dependence
upon France for artillery, aviation
and tanks, was of course, due to the
fact that our industries had not been
exclusively devoted to military production.
All credit is due our own
manufacturers for their efforts to
meet our requirements as at the time
the armistice was signed we were
able to look forward to the early supply
of practically all our necessities
from our own factories."
to look forward to the early supply
of practically all our necessities from
our own factories."
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Everybody is Requested to Mail
Xmas Parcels Early.
Christmas shoppers are speeding
up as the great world holiday and
sacred yuletide season draws nearer,
according to most merchants and
shopkeepers. Postmaster A. W.
Knight says packages for distant
points are moving more rapidly every
day and that the people appear to be
taking advantage of the warning
to shop and mail early.
This week packages should be
mailed to all points between the Atlantic
and the Mississippi river. Owing
to the vast amount of postal
business incidental to the demobilization
of soldiers and sailors in the
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burden to the already heavy mails
and for that reason the first class
mails, the second class mails and all
merchandise are moving slower than
in normal times.
Shops of the city are displaying
their most attractive lines of gifts
suitable for the Christmas season
this week and a record business is
expected to be done between now
and next Saturday night. Money appears
to be plentiful and the spirit
of buying is more bouyant now than
in many years, it is said.
Postmaster Knight and his assistants
have worked hard to keep the
Christmas business moving along at
regular paces and he says that if
the people keep on buying and mailing
their gifts and of sending many
smaller presents in the Bamberg
zone by members of the family, much
as they did last year as a war measure,
that there will be no sort of
jumble at the postoffice and that
mail will be moving as freely and
regularly on Christmas eve as. it
does on any other days.
MANY REQUESTS TO GET OUT.
Senator Smith Publishes Letter of
Interest to Soldiers.
Washington, Dec. 1.?Senator E.
D. Smith is receiving many requests
from realtives of soldiers and sailors
for assistance in having the men discharged,
especially where good reasons
exist for trying to have them released
from further service.
In reply to an inquiry regarding the
policy of the War Department in i
such matters, the Senator has just
received the following letter from
Adjt. Gen. Harris, giving information
of value to all who are interested:
"With respect to soldiers now serving
in the United States, department
commanders, commanders of ports of
embarkation and commanders of
camps not under the jurisdiction of
department commanders or of chiefs
of bureau of the War Department,
have been authorized to discharge en-1
listed men, excepting those who vol- j
untarily enlisted prior to April 1?|
1917, on their own application where j
there is sickness or other distress in j
the soldier's family, or where he is j
needed to resume employment in an .
industry or occupation where there is |
urgent need of his services, provided
such discharge will not disrupt or
cripple an existing organization, and
if the soldier's services can be spared.
"With respect to soldiers now overseas,
no definite policy with regard j
to their return to their home stations i
has been formulated. When a state !
of order has been restored overseas
and the military situation has improved
to such an extent as to justify
the withdrawal of American troops,
the War Department will adopt the
most effective and speedy means to
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