Show ll o g MEN ME SMASH IN INI I HUN I I ON hi Ii-ie Ii c Trench Lines I Famous i amous System of Defense Are Arc Penetrated Only Af te I Overcoming Stull Stubborn b ore F Foe o c I l n 2 Tk Ti c W 1 i t t w t Jt i S' S t r rl J AR LX LZ 1 L l' l or IE l I Oct d 5 Troops Troops Troops o of ih American first army resuming then their r drive between the Argonne forest and an d the thc Meuse early carly to today ay s smashed forward forward forward for for- ward with irresistible in dash overcoming o overcoming ing strong enemy resistance Time The Americans have gained a a afoot afoot- foothold foothold foot foot- hold on a spur in the famous hilde trench system All reports up to this ho hour r say operations are are proceeding pro proceeding pro pro- g satisfactorily Regulars went over the thc top along alongI I with troops from Illinois Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania Wisconsin and amid Virginia Virg-inia anti and inthe in inthe inthe inI I the first onrush bagged bag GOO prisoners From the positions captured yesterday yesterday yester yester- day overlooking crooking the greater part t of or ortho the tho J the Yankees swept down onto tho the formidable positions positions positions In the face of oe terrific gunfire The desperate e resistance availed the thc Germans nothing They were fought to a standstill Their forces too hat shat shattered terell for tor organized counterattacks s a violent box barrage was all they could oppose to our a advance vanee In the wa way of ot reaction and Ale Immediately tely west of oC the river rl tho the Americans who who yesterday had estah- estah ll JJ hed themselves cs In Cu Cunel el and h Rom nom om- om agne two a half halt miles ides respectively respectively respect respect- Ivel ively west of at DI un s swung around in a turning turning- movement against time the fen l trench system Tanks ranks ant and airplanes a again aln 1 rendered iI Invaluable In aid to our ern Infantry In the time new lIew advance In yesterdays yesterday's successful push the time maximum gain wa scored In the time Aire valley where tho the Yankees pressed prosser t I three miles northeastwards In the di direction of Grand Bre tho the important rail town north of or the Aire bend Our high angle angole guns guns did JIll brilliant execution shooting down four IouI German Gorman airplanes Another machine was sent crashing to earth b by infantry rifle fire A thick ground hazo haze la lay per Aver the Continued on Pa Page e 10 S. S MEN ME SMASH t HUN LINE UE ON MEUSE MESE r A Continued from paga pago 1 1 ils line tho German low In their to fly storing operations V 1 rots D Beaten Benten Qt n I f Son Some of the tho Kaisers Kaiser's finest troops I 2 encountered by our o men in yes yes- es and toda today's s assaults In the s for wo we o came camo Bops Dois des e division pet across th the i d named tho the I Tho They were ore overpowered o b by the tho Tan lan nn- nn i- i kool with tho same enno case and R less leIS glorious Oneas as troops of ti tiL tation L our advancing column columns i 5 liaw saw aw c of tho the frightful toll ped artillery fire reaped by our Tank crows crews outdid themselves os In I and daring Many Ian of tho the stool steel 1 of or monsters rumbled far In advance nd tho Infantry tho the wireless continually flashing messages to tho the rear tolling of r th the tanks Lanka location Many Ian a photo photographs also 1 were n prom rom tank windOws The They d s. s that numberless traps had he been en set Bet foi 01 I our eur Infantry which wern worn crushed hythe by hy the mobile forts Tank our I-our feers erR era also sent sont signals to our artillery directing efficacious S work ork I 4 i IT 1 1 C G. G Gluts Gains A Are Arc rc To Toi f Made l b by hy British av I 9 w Br ne Ap Preps Pere With ith tho the British Army In France Oct 5 Wide G Wide gains of ot great Importance I tance tanco have ha been bean made today b by tho the fighting British armies J S t J In tho the north tho the line lino of ot tho the Haute canal canol has s been boen reached and the t l s Germans are hurriedly evacuating e t i r. r i F French encIl Troops AresS Are rc sS Victors of Ft Brimont J e a ea Parts Paris Oct 5 Fort Fort Brimont Arimont has been een captured b by tho the French French troops the war office announces tonight t Tho massif of ot has been i taken and the tho massif of ot Nogent LAb V. I I besso basso encircled Fight With i l Redoubled Efforts nr Dr 1 With tho the American Arm Army Northwest kf I f t Verdun Oct 6 Fighting with nil all the ferocity of tho early days da of at the J war JAvar nr the Germans did their utmost today toda to- to today day da to bring to a n. halt tho the American offensive c Early this thle morning and In tho the forenoon forenoon fore toro noon tho the Americans Americana pushed 1 forward through a blanket of or fog a yard ard at a aI I and later in tho da day when then tho the lIrt lifted d the they drove forward a a. farther farther tarI far far- I ther distance a against tho the German line Almost no change changra ha hM boon beon made on right near tho the but on tho the the operations of tho French west of of ot tho the Argonne forest and tho the Amerl- Amerl Ir 1 cans on tho the east cast st defined moro more clear clearly Sr tho the salient In which the tho enemy nom I has a n considerable force toreo opposing opposing- the tho Americans who have havo been steadily I clearing tho the forest of machine gun Eun nests Again the th Germans concentrated their greatest efforts on th the center in inan an nn effort to prevent the tho swinging upward up- up ward of f their lino to a n. point which I would endanger yet et further that part of tho the army left In the Iho Argonne woods Although h tho the artillery action of or tho the j Germans lOd today was terrific the terrific the vol- vol was was greater than f. f yesterday yesterday- there thoro was a 1 notable reduction of aerial effort Only occasionally did the German aviators accept the chal- chal 1 ngo of ot tho the Americans today and even en n. n n. n bombing expedition to I et Landres-et- St. St Georges where more than two tons of or bombs bomba were dr dropped dripped did not do- do eloD resistance |