Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-10 | Page 1 | Utah Troops in Flanders Fight

UTAH TROOPS IN PLUNDERS FIGHT Americans to Remain in France After Peace, March Says. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. Capture of Maubeuge by the British. General March said today, marks the definite severance of the last German artery to that sector of the west front, and will make it impossible for the enemy to shift his forces to meet a new attack. Summarizing the allied successes since tbe inauguration of the forward movement, move-ment, General March pointed out that the GermaDs have been driven sixty-four sixty-four miles further from Paris, and the territory they occupy in France has beer reduced from 10,000 square miles to less than 2300. Tbe American first army, under General Gen-eral Perching, has advanced thirty miles in the last eight days. Bad for Military. General March characterised tbe publication pub-lication of the erroneous announcement of tbe armistice as 'very bad for the military program of the United States." For instance, he said, in New York, the stevedores who were engaged in loading load-ing very essential supplies lor the expeditionary expe-ditionary forces stopped work and did not return at all on that. day or the next . day, and army food shipments were thus delayed. In commenting on this incident tbe chief of staff made tbe statement that i the American army will be in France for some time, even when peace is declared. de-clared. The reorganization of tbe American (Continued on Page Four.) Hanson E. Ely; Sixth, Major General Walter H. Gordon; Seventh, -Major General Gen-eral Edmund Wittemyer; Twenty-sixth, Brigadier General F. E. Bam ford ; Twenty-seventh, Major General John F. O'Rvan; Twenty-eighth, Major General William Hay; Twenty-ninth, Major General Gen-eral C. E. Morton; Thirtieth, Major General Gen-eral William M. Lewis; Thirty-first, Major General LeRoy S. Lyon ; Thirty-second, Thirty-second, Tiot reported; Thirty-third, Major General George Bell, Jr.; Thirty-fourth, not reported; Thirty-fifth, Major General Peter E. Traub; Thirty-sixth, Major General Gen-eral William R. Smith; Thirty-seventh, Major General Charles S. Farns worth; Thirty-eighth. Major General Robert L. Howze; Thirty-ninth, Major General Henry C. Hodges; Fortieth, Major General Gen-eral P. S. Strong; Forty-first, not reported; report-ed; Forty-second, Major General Charles D. Rhodes; Seventy-sixth, Major General Harry F. Hodges; Seventy-seventh, Major General Robert Alexander; Seventy-eighth, Seventy-eighth, Major General James H. McCrae; Seventy-ninth, Major General Joseph E. Kuhn; Eightieth. Major General Adel-bert Adel-bert Cronkhite; Eighty-first, Major General Gen-eral Charles L. Bailey; Eighty-second, Major General George B, Duncan; Eighty-third, Eighty-third, Major General E. F. Glenn; Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fourth, Major General Harry C. Hale; Eighty-fifth. Major General Charles W. Kennedy; Eighty-sixth, Major General Charles H. Martin; Eighty-seventh, Major General S. p. Sturgis; Eighty-eighth. Eighty-eighth. Major General William Welgel ; Eighty-ninth. Major General Frank L. Winn; Ninetieth, Major General Henry T. Allen; Ninety-first, Major General William Wil-liam H. Johnston: Ninety-second, Major General C. C. Ballou. 111 TROOPS 1 FLANDERS FIGHT (Continued from Page One.) N expeditionary forces into two field armies has resulted in several changes in corps commanders. These include the following: First corps, Major General Joseph IHekman; Second corps, Major General George W. Reed; Third corps, Major General L. J. Hines; Fourth corps, Major General Charles H. Muir; Fifth corps, Major General C. P. Summeral; Sixth corps, Major General William M. Wright; Seventh corps, Major General . Charles H. Mcnohcr. Yanks With British. American divisions now operating with the British in Flanders were identified iden-tified as the Thirty-seventh (Ohio), under Major General C. S. Farnsworth, and the Ninety-first (Pacific coast, Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada and Utah), under Major General W. II. Johnson. The Ninety-first was, on last reports, on the heights of .Ar.dennrdc, on the Scheldt river. In reply to questions concerning individual in-dividual units, the chief of stall announced an-nounced that the 3"jlst aero squadron was at an artillery observing school in France; the 346th machine gun battalion bat-talion was attached to the Ninety-first division in Flanders; the 303rd field artillery brigade was at (,'lermont-sur-Aisno at last reports; the lC-lth field artillery brigade, originally with the ERhty-nintb division, has been in action ac-tion in Flanders; the Forty-first division (Pacific coast, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming), still is acting as a replacement replace-ment unit, and tho Thirty-eighth division divi-sion (Kentucky and West Virginia), has not been reported since October 23, wben it was in action west of the Mouse. In connection with the reorganization of lhe American expeditionary forces, which also caused .sunn- changes In corps commanders, General March gave the lames of division commanders at the front. They are: Plxst, Brigadier General Fnink Parker; Second, Major General John I. -.! r. 8. M. C.; Third, Brigadier General Proston Brown; Fourth, Major Geneial Mark L. fLttW Fifth, Major General