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Show PERSHING PUTS BOCHE TROOPS TO QUICK FLIGHT U. S. Aviators Report A 1 1 Roads Running North Packed With Troops and Trucks. Prisoners, Guns and Material Ma-terial Taken by Yankees Yan-kees Are Increasing in Number and Quantity. WITH THE AMERICAN;" FORCES NORTHWEST OF VER j DUN, Saturday, Nov. 2. There it a possibility that the ' German t tirement west of tho Meuse maj cany the enemy back so far that the whole German lines cast 01 Rethel will be endangered. Tho Americans advanced today to--nv average depth of about two and a half miles over a fourteen-mile front. By Universal Service. COPENHAGEN, via London, Nov. 3. A Kieff dispatch received here via Berlin says 20,000 Russian marines have revolted against the Bolshevist rule at Petrograd. By Universal Service. LONDON, Nov. 3 At the very hot! Marshal Foch was receiving ' the new that Austria has signed his terms, marl j ing the third belligerent power to va ish, beaten, from the field of bat I 1 within a few weeks, he was flashu L directions to the vital front in Franpe, west between the Meuse and tho Aisne, where Pershing's American and (iou-raud's (iou-raud's French armies were sweeping ahead in a victorious advance along a line of thirty miles. By late this afternoon they had progressed between seven and eight miles along tho whole of this attacking front. The pivot around which tho Germans planned to swing their great . retreat out of northern i-'rance and Belgium Bel-gium is cracking under the Franco-American Franco-American hammer blows. For the first time since America entered en-tered tho war tho still proud German war office was forced tonight to admit defeat at the hands of the Yankees. Even that fatal word whjch war offices use only in hours of a great triumph or a grent disaster tho word "breakthrough'' "break-through'' appeared in the official Berlin Ber-lin admission. And no longer can tho kaiser's communique designer conceal-, from the German people exactly which foe it is that is treating tho picked divisions di-visions roughly. Instead of the former pet generalization "the enemy' tho truth is told tonight. Says the Berlin war office: "An American breakthrough break-through west of the Meuse caused a German withdrawal between the Aisno and Champigneullc (a front of eight miles). ' ' And this is followed by the grave admission: "American troops gained ground at Tailly and beyond Villers-Dcvant-Dun." Tailly lies only six miles southwest of Htenny, on the Hedan-Mezicrcs railway, rail-way, which is Pershing's immediate objective. ob-jective. This vital railway has been under American range bombardment for thirty-six hours. EVERY AMERICAN DIVISION REACHED DESIRED OBJECTIVE W ITU THE AMKKI C AN FORCES NORTHWEST OK VERDUN, Nov. 3, TiT.'i p. m. (By the Associated lJreBR. ) A merlcan aviators laic today repori cd t tint the Germans to the cast of the Meuee appeared to be in full retreat. Theaviators' messages said that all roads (Continued on Page Three.) GERMANS RETREAT EAST OF TIE IKE (Continued from Page One.) running northward were packed, with troops, artillery and trucks. General Pershing's forces continued to make satisfactory progress during the night and this morning, but they met With isolated opposition here and there, indicating that the German retreat has slightly slowed up. Virtually every American division had not only reached Its objectives this morning, morn-ing, but was far ahead of them. Prisoners, Pris-oners, guns and material are reported to be increasing in number and quantity. The enemy opposition took the form of intermittent artillery fire, and at a few points with the use of gas and Infantry. This resistance, however, generally vanished van-ished when the Americans exerted themselves. them-selves. The general character of the enemy's defense was almost exclusively that of rear guard actions, instead of the usual bitter, direct opposition, and generally it was overcome without .difficulty. American aviators late today reported that the Germans to the east of the Meuse appeared to be in full retreat. The aviators' messages said that all roads running northward were packed With troops, artillery and trucks. The American aviators went as far as Remoiviile. They reported that the roads southwest of Remoiviile were choked with traffic. The retreating German troops and convoys con-voys and enemy ammunition dumps and various villages within the Teuton lines were attacked today by American bombing bomb-ing airplanes. Gerat damage is reported to have been done to property and consternation caused among the retreating troops. The American bombing machines made two attacks, the first in the morning and the other in the afternoon, reaching reach-ing as far as St. Tenay and Beaumont. Fires are reported in both places. Eight squadrons participated in the air raids today. The bombers attacked Beaumont, where they destroy ed a warehouse ware-house and exploded an ammunition dump. In Stenay another ammunition dump was exploded. The bombers also attacked Martin-court, Martin-court, Mouseay, Beauclair and Beau-,fort. Beau-,fort. The last two towns simultaneously "were under the fire of American heavy guns. In the region of Vaux and Sommauthe pursuit planes harassed the troops along the roadways with machine guns and small bombs. The weather was cloudy, but it was the first really clear day on the ground since the offensive of the Americans was resumed. re-sumed. There were various combats in the air. Two German machines were reported re-ported brought down. Three American planes are missing. The aviation report, regarding the retreat re-treat of the enemy east of the Meuse, is as follows: "At Remoiviile a troop train of nineteen nine-teen cars was leaving, northward bound. We saw great crowds of enemy troops along the railway siding. We fired upon them and they fired back with incendiary bullets. All northbound roads out of Remoiviile were filled with troops." According to previous reports, at least four Austro-Hungarlan divisions were opposing the French and Americans east of the Meuse in this sector. |