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Show YANKS HEADED TOWAM SEDAN Americans Continue Their Sensational Advance for the Third Day. By EDWIN L. JAMES. (New York Times-Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.! WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, Nov. 3, 8 p. m. For the third day tho First American army has continued its sensational sensa-tional advance north of Verdun against the demoralized Third and Fifth German Ger-man armies. Some sections have been pursuing the enemy since dawn without with-out catching up with them. The German Ger-man retreat is approaching a rout. The Fourth Frencli army, on our left, is pushing ahead with fine speed. It is impossibie yet to give the exact line, because of the rapidity of our rush, which prevents the best communication, but at this hour it may be said that from the left to the right we join with the French near Xoirval. Our troops near Brieulles-sur-Bar have taken Authe. In the center cen-ter we. have swept on behind Quatre-champs Quatre-champs and are nearing Bois Belvol to take that woods. We have taken Mau-court Mau-court farm and Beauclaire. On the right we have pushed beyond Halles and Montigny. East of the Meuse great activity is " reported behind the German lines. It appears that almost all the German resistance has been broken by the rush of the First American army after its (Continued on Page Eiglit.) artillery is being brought "P nd,"s f and little are shooting at the Germans, although for the most part the range-finders range-finders can only guess where they shoot The First American army Is neaaea toward Sedan and is going fast. able the flanks to catch up. In this sector sec-tor we had little contact with the enemy all day. Incidentally in this one sector we have taken some 4000 prisoners. The count for the whole army Is not complete at this hour. On the right cur success is surprising because the Germans had orders or-ders to hold there no matter what happened hap-pened elsewhere. But the Germans here, having the deep and swollen Meuse behind be-hind them, seemed to think discretion the better part of valor and got out, leaving leav-ing only some victimized weak rear "guards. Halles, specially blessed by nature na-ture as a stronghold, was taken before noon. Skirting the Bois Halles and the Bois Sassey, the infantry went up the west bank of the river and took Mon-tigny. Mon-tigny. in the vicinity of Brieulles some of our men crossed the river under fire from the east bank. The German retreat was not made in accordance with the plans of the German staff nor even of the armies. The Germans Ger-mans simply are not fighting and are getting get-ting out of the way. Order after order has been captured of recent dates ordering order-ing to hold no matter what happened. This aftwnoon we captured a German runner sent post haste from army headquarters head-quarters to find why the line had broken. We took three other runners who entered our lines looking fcr German posts of command. This gives an Idea of the demoralization de-moralization of the enemy. This demoralization, demor-alization, of course, is resulting in great amounts of material falling into our hands. Something seems to have happened to most of the German artillery. Last night they threw some high explosive and gas shells into our lines, but their fire is not even comparable to what they have been doing almost daily for the past four weeks. Despite the difficulties of mud our IKS HEADED TOWARD SEDi (Continued from Faro Ona.) four weekH r pitrht'd battle with th EXuN. At dawn this montlng 'e went out patrOll till alOQg thfl line, which Pound practically no resistance, and our Infantry dulokly movad Forward In Co roc ovor a flrtaan-nrlto ftant w Barrloourl n RRrrlnon 'Of t'rniaiiM BtlOWtd It! leelh, hut iif n sharp, swtfi bayonet charge we cleared the town and tnen the resistance semsd to melt away on most ot the CronL 'Mir advance today was limited only by transportation difficulties nd dlfficultleH In f-ettllil" Up gUnS, At ! o'olock t hiM morning thie report cams from the right of our rente?' corps: "We have taken I larrlcourl heights, doing like hell.1 Thai about tells the etorj of the day's advance, ('com m strategical standpoint the days work nlv'H US B QeCSnt front, win-reus yesterday 11 was Jagged and appeared somewhat dangerous, because the Germans Ger-mans holding along the west bank of the Meuse oil the rlgnl still had b salteni In i he forest on i he left . in the fi we started from BrlQuenay with troops whirl, reached there yesterday, After the advance the motor trucks started ahead b i the same time Ins PYsnch wore on ihe went Hide r the fftrnnl The (Irr-mnna (Irr-mnna had departed In ths night, leaving onls b thin covering of rein- guards, watch could no more si em our advance than the fiimod broom could lioid' back ths ocean wnven. By noon we hsd reached Boutt. sweep I ng through It, The doughboys ats their ii i kmi oho t " Osrmon. After noon we olned with the PVenoh lust north of bollevllle, which ineani the Qormun sn ii, in the fores I of Boull was gone. Bj o'olw h we reached Authe, nnd luat re porl gave the location or Mm troops jmt noiith of BrlBUlles-eur-Baj tn ths center i leaving Buaanoy fur- i hlndi we swept nhe id between four and nl x kilometer n. In kl nit, our Mine 1" en |