Show u. u S. S MEN TAKE TROOPS CAPTIVE I. I i In Iii Less Than l Mouth Month 1 1 Yanks T auks Free 45 Villages and Gain Ten Miles l Hr ny A S lalNI Trem With the American Arm Army Northwest of ot Verdun Oct od In 27 In In Its first major operation against the Germans considering considering considering con con- the tho clearing out of oC the SL t salient as a local affair the An American army In a few fen days las less than thana thara a month has has liberated more than for for- ly ty villages and advanced to HI an average depth o of term ten miles freeing freeIng- 16 square mlle mile miles of territory In the of offensive offensive or- or the Americans have captured more than oooo prisoners The Americans Ar attacked attack tI on a front front of oC twenty miles from the Argonne t to th the tho Meuse Ieuse and the advance has 8 been beer made In the face of or almost Insurmountable able difficulties due ue particularly 4 to tc the nature of or the ground which Is covered cov cov- covered ered with hills deep ravines and woods In ln a addition the tho Americans had hall frontIng fronting front front- I In ing them four tour organized s systems ol or of trenches trenches the the line the Hagen Ha- Ha hen gen position the Volker position and ant and tho the position The They have hav forced their wa way through h all these lines Alc Ahead ad of them lies the Freya J position which has been reached alone lit al litone at atone one point In the region of the ihie wood Large r. r Gun Captured The advance ad has bus been particularly difficult because the tho have ha stubbornly resisted o every overy r tout toot of or the tho way and have used more more than thi thirty thirty- three divisions 1 the on twenty mile front In n addition n to lo the prisoners General Pershing's men have ha taken more than guns of large calibers numerous machine guns gUn and antitank guns buns a great store of oC ammunition and much war material including locomotives a an and IK railway cars Since SInco September 26 6 tho Americans have fired more moro than shells tho the number at al times reaching as high as daB dally daily The The guns use used in included ln- ln d ft n great reat nu number of or heavy y ones and also some captured from the time en en- en emy orny American aviators aviators' and antiaircraft guns in lh the period since September 27 7 have brought down 30 enem enemy machines machines machines ma ma- chines a anti ami twenty three enem enemy balloon balloons balloons bal bal- loons loon despite a adverse flying con condition and ball bail weather Bombing airplanes dropped more inure more than kilograms of ot explosives on railroad centers center concentrations and other points behind behind be be- behind hind the enemy lines Transport llOrt Is Difficult From the view of oC the engineer the tha most difficult task faced has been the tho repairing of oC roads and the tho mo ot supplies J i ammunition and men inch to the front front- Moro More than engineer troops are employed day and night In rebuild rebuild- ng shell hammered ro rods ds using crush crushed d rock lock from villages destroyed by German shells In the thc Argonne hundreds of or yards ards of oC German wire barbed wire entanglements had lad to bo be bridged as It Jt was vaa impossible ble to cut CUlo them The Thc crossing of oC Forges J. J brook w accomplished in tho first da day of ot the advance ance under a u heavy y lire lre The broel bl runs rubs through marshy marsh lands and in or- or or order order der ler to bridge it lt the tho engineers had holl to toay tolay lay IDY ay faggots on un both sides tI of oC tho ho str stream Tho rho crossing was made maden In n record Ecord time and antI thou then began all the tha battle of ot the Argonne which lasted for tot fornore more nore than two weeks Compilations made by b army arm officers officers- show mow that of oC the th snore more than IG square oro I Continued on Pa Page e C. C UI U. S. S MEN J I T OO Continued From iA miles mies taken from Crom tie lie enemy elect l lember ember 26 6 almost one balf sin yi ii Ily wooded and m machine gun 0 k i I Tho rue Americana had to take ty 1 15 hills and high crests crets most mosto were heavily wooded woo d and del dt henr un strong stron machine Run gun the hills Hl were vere west wet of oft lb th J Jand and 1 his S east cast of oC the thc lie river rIven T he lIe also hall hail to be driven tro from real m ill all defended e b by machine S r nearly nearl 1 as har hard to take a as S th thI hi nearl General Generah but the tae pIck o of U Uman advance against pik I man army tills this front I |