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Show AMERICANS PROGRESS DESPITE DETERMINED EFFORTS OF GERMANS Orders to Huns Between Aisne and Aeuse Show-That Show-That Positions Were Believed to Be Impregnable. I By EYIN L. JAMES. York 'tViu s-i."s.i.-tuo Tribune Cih. I'i'i'tc'.it WITH Til K A M y. VAC A " A K M Y . i.v't. I.- One fi'MMJii for the luor a:id expensive- s.ime t he l'i e r m.i n s rt n pla i : : i i v. (rout of the first Anwiuan a. :u between the Aine the Mense r:er. and indeed all alo:ur the western 'roi.:. is receded m the follow 'hi; order; '"Troors are reuv.rdcd that onr present portion is o..r winter position. There will be a leet'.:ie and eon Ore nee of all e-serves e-serves at the earliest possible date, with the objeet of pointing out how important K is that tbe troops should t now hold their p-vund more than ever, and that there can be no question of i;o:n-; back a s:r'.e step f.:r;her. We want to show the p-it'.-h and hYne!: a-.h Americans that another a;:ae.k of theirs on the t-iei;-: rie J line will be completely broken and that this line 13 an impr"gr.ah ramp.irt. w tn th.e result that t' e entente row ers ill con descend to consider peace le: nis "which are absolutely necessary' to us be- f'-re we can end this w-jr. In other words, ea.-'a step backward row means the ierthenir.c of the ar. A sticceisful staii 1. on t re ot!ier hand. i -U give us the project of an early peaee. Kvery man has got to be clearly convinced of t'"ee facts, ard co'np:ir.y o'::cer must he o:i-stantly o:i-stantly telling their iT-.en tins. All command com-mand in at offu-e ri shojld take e.mihHr rters." Tiii? o: di?r was -ic-.l 5"c p:em'er ! I to a bft ttaison s't ua ted jus: belo Ca m-brni. m-brni. Vn.Io 'hted'- iimiicr orders alr.ad have N?en issued to troops aionr the w.i- em front. Th.e Siert'rit-d lin is the last I series of the T linden hj re, d e'en res. ! PEACE DRIVE I IS FORESEEN. j The same line i5 called the "Wotan 1 farther north a'd th. Albrejht ;"artv-er south. In the C'bampagrno and the Ar-nne Ar-nne tt ha no designation by name, hut corresponds to the last line of trenches, four kilometers deep, of the Hindeiiburp: line, which is entirely in our own hands on the front of our attack. The sentiment in this order corresponds t o tha t I liave had f roi n a number of German prisoners In the last week, who say that while the German 3 Intended henceforth to fight only a defensive warfare, war-fare, t hey will make it so costly aud tiresome for the allies that u c wilt come to their term;-. It may b noticed that between the lines of this order one may read that the Hermans will make a peace drive this winter. Hitter iMck-aad-forlh frjluiiie continued con-tinued on the .rnonnc-Meuse front today, to-day, the tlcrtuans oxprndinK re;imcnu lavishly to prevent our further advance. !n the last twrut -four hour we ha-pushed ha-pushed our hue somewhat ahead In the Aronne forest, but in the main we haf devoted our energies to consolidating our positions and re.-tifviuc tile line. whhh. because of the sucecs of some dei-man counter-attacks, was rather suw-tootli In shape. Against this work the boohe Is sending heavy counter-work and concentrated con-centrated shclllnK with both lik-li c-plosives c-plosives mid jess. Yesterday afternoon they set. I a larite number of itas shells into the Milages well behind our front. COUNTER-BLOWS' COSTS ARE VAIN. Very lun y and costly f iKhtir.jc ha5 taken pUo in tl- v trinity of llxer-mont llxer-mont and north of Montfaucn, In both vicinities the boehe h;iins the best terra ter-ra m. These eunler -a Mark w ere made with vim and force. As a rule the result was only caualt for. a:'iT thf boclu .has pushed The America m bark. ur 1 troop,- ahiKt lnvavfabl.v k a for re-! re-! intorcnients and put the hrhe bai,k 1 i. liere h w'aitcd fr-nu ! Their pn; c.in i' be riea't w.:i as 1 1 " s pi ei.il cases." Wh lie t lie Amoneans I are pushing ap.(in-.t. the Clormans west ( 'the i'fus1, some of our tfps hae ben keeping up the pressure arainst the b-n-he li ne, without, how e er. d aneing thMr lltifvs to any aiprc hable extent. hile the rainy weather f the pa3t two days has greatly hampered aerial nork, our observers have been doinK yeoman work. To make observations and phMoirrnpri.t, they have had to fly very low. subjecting themselves to fire from all sorts of en- envy weapon-. One observer came baeh : yestr rday w ith fourteen wounds. but made his rprt before plnir to the hospital. hos-pital. Another pilot, who went out in a single-sea ted machine, to report on a suspected boche concentration camp, came baek with the Information and with a bullet through his hip. Terha ps the nerv("t of all drM? f (Contiuued on Face Elqht.) " - JUUERIGUB ' PROGRESS DESPITE GERMANS (Continued from Page One.) oar aviators was that of an observer in a two-seated De Havilahd Four, who was wounded when two Fokkers attacked his plane and sent an incendiary bullet into his gasoline tank. Despite his plight, tfce pilot, wounded also, held the plane on the glide to the ground, while the observer, to escape the flames from the tank, crawled out on one of the wings of the machine. When the machine hit the ground, just back of our lines.' the observer tumbled, and, under heavy rifle fire, went to the assistance -of the pilot, lying beneath the wrecked plane. He freed, the pilot, who died on the way to. the hospital. v The boehe; has some excellent fighters in this sector, men with iron nerves. Yesterday morning a company of about a hundred men found an unguarded path through the woods and actually went through the American line and attacked our advanced troops from behind. About I the same time advancing troops came up behind the boche, trapping them. As a result of the scrap we brought back sixty ; of the hundred as prisoners, most of the others being killed. j The fighting in the Argonne forest continues to be the most weary and ex- acting sort of effort.' Added to the difficulties dif-ficulties of the natural jungles are wire and traps set by the boche. Then the rain, everlasting rain. I spent four hours today in the big woods and saw some of ' the things our boys are up against. Coated with mud, wet to the skin, and i cold, they had dispositions a little ragged : in places, but generally they bore up : well. One big lad said: "Well. I gue?s he j - is as wet as I am and that helps some." ! The getting up of supplies is a heart- j rending problem here and much has to be carried on the backs of the soldiers be- j - cause the supply trains cannot get through the boche-infested jungle. Today, late, eighteen Ixx-hes walked to a certain American headquarters in the southern part of the forest and asked permission per-mission to surrendtr. |
