Show rAM r ERIC AN DRIVE CARRIES 4 1 i I ARMY TO GERMAN BORDER PERSHING'S MEN REACH ON MOSELLE RIVERt RIVER t Entire St St. Mihiel Salient Captured and More Than Prisoners Are Taken by Victorious I U. U S. S Soldiers Soliers in Two Days Da Ts l 1 1 Universal Service With the tho First American Army Sept 13 We We We have captured more mor than thirty towns and villages since the St. St Mihiel attack began hegan The battle continues We are advancing Universal Service Washington Sept 13 American n Amerin forces are in possession of or the entire St St. Mihiel salient to points twelve miles northeast of that town and have captured upwards of prisoners General Pershing reports in s 's of official official of of- tonight made public by the war department The text of the In the St. St Mihiel sector we have acquired further successes Junction of our troops advancing from the south of the sector with those advancing from the west has Jias given us possession of the tho whole salient to points twelve miles northeast of St St. Mihiel and has resulted in the capture of many prisoners Forced back by our steady advance the enemy is retiring and is der destroying de straying large quantities of material as he goes The number of prisoners counted has risen to Our line now includes Herbeuville Hattonville St St. Benot Xammes ammes Jaulny and Universal S Service P ARIS Sept 13 The Thc The St. St Mihiel salient is no more Where before da dawn n yesterday a German wedge fifteen miles deep and twenty wide poked its I ugly h ad with arrogant challenge far into French Lorraine between Verdun and TonI TOLd the last German menace on the entire western front I first American arm army is squatting squarely in front of Germanys Germany's I frontier tonight resting up after the har hardest and fastest tussle of the war consolidating the thc gained ground counting prisoners and bool booty and singing Where here Do We VC Go Fr From m Here i Clear across closs what wha was as the neck of the the cG German rm hernia from r m. m Cheminot eJ t t cast of tf the he Moselle via on the German frontier to north north- I past of St runs the first line of n trenches and the tho great rp below bel that Hue 5 with Yankee troops Thousands 40 of Germans are still within tit th pocket but they arc in great danger of l being ing g captured 2 I It t took the Americans just about thirty tours to fo smash the great grent salient to lo bits bits- bus and and half n n. dozen moro more for mopping up France marvels anew at atthe atI atthe I the l lightning speed and unquenchable thirst for action acHon the doughboys displayed displayed displayed dis dis- played in in this their own battle battler as they did when the they fought b breast to breast with the thc on the Marue Marne The yeoman knocked th the terror ter terror terror ter- ter into a cocked hat t j tTo To begin with with with-It It was a Friday the The Thc number of prisoners is estimated at On the right they ad 13 miles from Fey Saye to TANKS AND AVIATORS AID INFANTRY Associated Press With the thc American Army in France Sept 13 Prisoners 13 13 Prisoners continue to arrive in the back areas from the front One corps headquarters was choked with Germans this morning the prisoners including a major of the regiment who had been captured with his entire staff His cheeks checks were still wet with tears shed over hi his s capture Eleven en enemy ammunition dumps are aro kno known n to have been blown up by bythe bythe bythe the artillery of one corps alone The fine work done by the tanks in the beginning of the offensive is illustrated by the thc execution of one machine in command of Sergeant Graham Graham Gra Gra- ham Thus This tank ran far ahead of the infantry and captured a n battery of or German 17 Ii heavy machine guns gums 5 light machine guns gums and 75 prisoners When hen the tank went into action the sergeant crawled to the top of the turret and directed the operations from there Another tank unaided took thirty prisoners The losses to the thc tanks have been very small Only two of ot the machines machines machines ma ma- chines have lu been destroyed entirely and in in the tho tank corps the Americans have ha suffered only four casualties Not a man has been killed in connection con can with the thc operation of the thc tanks American aviators have been taking the most active part possible MH in inthe the present fighting fighting- and notwithstanding not the bad weather have been flying fly fly- fling flying W ing over German t territory without opposition There seemingly seeming can cnn be bc no more talk of German mastery in the air It is asserted that German balloons baBoons ha e been shot down near name name deleted One darn daring flyer swooped low to attack a 8 retreating battery an and d shot one of the officers dead 1 from his s horse I r i Foe Makes Stand StandOn StandOn StandOn On Old Wotan Line ny Dr Press Prise With the American Arm Army In Lorraine Lorraine Lorraine Lor Lor- raine Sept 13 The The St St. Mihiel salient has hns been wl wiped ed out and tho the enemy forces are aro now virtually with their backs on the famous amous Wotan otan burg line with the tho Americans Am and French paralleling par them closely from Verdun to the he Moselle The line now extends past Norroy Jaulny Xammes Xammes St St. Benoit Hattonville Hatton Hatton- ville rifle and Important hll octant Rail Lines Wrested From Br fly AK Associated cress London Sept 13 T l Twelve Twelve lve thousand prisoners havo been taken tal en by the Americans American In hr their offensive at St St. Mihiel The entire salient now ha has been captured Tho The railway from Verdun to Com Corn Commercy mercy mere Toul and Nancy now is open to the entente allies All AU the Iho villages In the S St Mihiel sa salient sa- sa were captured b by tho the Americans and the tho front In this sector was re re- re reduced reduced from Crom some forty miles to a 3 little under twenty miles Tho The latest news from tho the St St. Mihiel sector shows s that tho the battle line IIno now runs directly front on the theMo Moselle Moselle Mo 0 selle river to Hattonville and along alone th the front of the heights of tho dense Moselle rl river Pany a n town on the or border of or Germany Is on tho NV extern In addition to the prisoner Continued on Page pase 2 PERSHING'S MEN ARE AREAT AREAT AT GERMAN BORDER Continued From Page pase 1 who have h been en counted large uge numbers of ot Germans are aro still coming In Most lost of ot the villages captured h b by the Americans in the St. St Mihiel salient were left leet In good condition by the G Germans The Tho town of ot St St. Mihiel was practical practically i l ly undamaged Tho Germans left leet the x railroad nil road from Verdun to Commercy Tout Toul and Nancy Nanc Intact and this tills road will win prove a a. great help to the ent entente allies nUles Another valuable rail line from Paucourt Paucourt Pau- Pau court ourt to St St. h by which the Germans Germans Ger Ocr mans frd d their troops In their salient was also aho S JeTt Intact Th The op operation of ot tho the Americans must be regarded ardell as a bi big local success success- C Rw The made mare by tw the tho Germans Germans' In 4 the official communication that tho they thoy foresaw the evacuation of nf tho the St St. Ml- Ml Ii- Ii hid salient and prepared for It for as asman man many years years' n the war var has baa lasted hard hard- I l ly Is borne out In view ot r f th the number of ot prisoners and guns uns tak n n. n At the same time tho the fact act that very cry few stores etore were left leet b behind appears to Indicate that the Germans had pr prepared to quit tho ground |