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Show CIVILlii HI) I THE People of Sedan Regard Doughboys as Deliverers Deliv-erers From Four Years of Rule by the Hun. . Teuton Army Is Bottled Bot-tled Up, Only Avenue Ave-nue of Escape Being by Way of Liege . By EDWIN L. JAMES. (Kew York Times-Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, Nov. 7, G p. in. When the German emissaries came across the front today to receive the armistice terms, the German army was bottled up with only one avenue of escape, through Iiege. This bottling up was done by the first American army, who were driving the last remaining boche out of Sedan. Thus, men fighting under the .Stars and Stripes have achieved what, perhaps, is the most brilliant victory of the whole war, certainly the most important offensive of-fensive victory. In our remarkable six-day six-day advance of forty kilorneters we have not only liberated hundreds of French villages vil-lages and several thousand civilians,,-but have captured the city of Sedan, liberating liberat-ing 5(H)0 French people, and we have cut the German main railroad system of communication com-munication from the western front through Luxemburg. Not only that, we have put the German fifth and third armies, holding the pivot of the whole front, in full retreat. In the last twenty-four twenty-four hours of our forward sweep we have liberated these among other towns: Beau-court, Beau-court, Autrecourt, Haracourt, Anglecourt, Thelanne, Roycrs, Madlincourt, Frencis, Chevenges and Dignan. AMERICAN TROOPS MOVED RAPIDLY. Our victorious troop's move so fast that they break ail communication with the rear, and the weather has made airplane observation impossible. That is why not until i this morning did our commanders know that the doughboys had reached historic his-toric Sedan yesterday afternoon at -3 I o'clock and had drawn their line along the river, which cuts off a small portion of the city. Early this morning the work of putting across the bridges started. I have just returned in a vain attempt to get to Sedan. The roads are mined and torn and so filled with traffic that it is impossible to get there. But reports from there say the Germans are getting back north of Sedan. The l'ircs they started last night when quitting are still burning. There is no firing on the city by the other side and the civilians are seen in the streets cheering the Americans. Amer-icans. Our troops have been hailed as the deliverers by the French under the Hun force for more than lour years. You may picture the great celebration when the Americans control alt the city, which is a matter of hours., SWEET REWARD FOR BOYS TO ACHIEVE. It is a sweet reward for Americans to achieve this brilliant success after five weeks of bloody, disheartening fighting which made possible our victory. They know they broke the best German resistance re-sistance the kaiser could put against them, and now they have changed the memory of Sedan from a sorrowful recol-tection recol-tection to one of joy: they have change-! Sedan from a name of defeat to a name of victory. November 6 will go down in history his-tory along with July IS as the two great dates. On July 18 the Americans and French started the offensive of the Marne and on November 0 the Americans cut one of the two German communications and withdrawal lines and made the German Ger-man military situation impossible. The German retreat was made with' great difficulty. Our guns were hammer- ( ing them as they ran and in haste leaving 1 behind hem uncounted millions of war material. They have been swept clear of horse?, and oxen have heen hitched to the (Continued on ia?e Two.; Gill OF FRANCE Ml THE YANKEES (Continued from Fae One.) German guns. One report has it that French cows are hitched to German 77's, toiling far ahead from the pursuing Americans. Amer-icans. Food, lumber, clothing, coal, ammunition, am-munition, rifles, cannon everything used in war is left behind by the Hun In the retreat, which has become precipitate. This haste is well illustrated by the fact that the Germans were not able to completq the task of getting away the , civilians from Sedan, which started three i days ago, when the German command de- I spaired of stopping the Americans south i of the Meuse and planned to defend Sedan, which was abandoned because of the demonstration of the forces. Deserters tell us of a hundred Germans from one division leaving and fleeing home, convinced con-vinced it was useless to fight the Americans Amer-icans any longer. An idea of the elaborate plan the Germans made to keep us back is given by the fact that at Sedan were pome Incomplete clams for flooding the Meuse below the city. This was only slightly successful, and is no longer a menace to France. We dynamited the dams this morning. The Germans, however, found time to strip the French towns of all valuables. valu-ables. This, of course, was being done some weeks ago. Vegetables were dug up from the gardens and shipped to Germany, beasts of burden were stolen, food was carted back and houses stripped of copper cop-per and cooking utensils. The German war works, built in occupied occu-pied territory, were stripped weeks ago, ! according to civilians, who said In the past i two weeks both boche officers and pri- ; vates freely admitted the impending mill- : tary disaster for the fatherland. Yet the Germans did not forget to mine the houses, dugouts and roads. Devilish Contrivances. Devilish contrivances were found in towns where the civflians still lived and showed the boche disregard for consequences, conse-quences, If they could do the least bit of. hurt to their opponents. Special attention at-tention was paid to the more important houses, where the Americans might well have headquarters. Many civilians are in a sorry plight because the ordinary supply of foods from the Americnn relief sources was cut off by the war's turn. The American army Is rushing up food for them and taking them away from towns likely to bo shelled by the Hun. The speed of the advance means, of course, great difficulties of transportation and great difficulties also of getting up guns over t he torn highways. We have made out by leaving half their guns and doubling the trams for the rest, thus getting get-ting up bur 75'8. Our gunners are avoiding avoid-ing shooting the towns and are confining confin-ing their fire to the crossroads and highways high-ways used by the fleeing boche. A heavy fog all day made It Impossible for our aviators to keep any tab onthe flying enemy. It is impossible to see more t ha n a hundred yards ahead. This is ' aiding the boche withdrawal. Gorman resistance is weakening cast of the Meuse, where our advance continues with unceasing pressure. The German po<lbns are Imperiled by our ndvanop east of the river, which we have crossed at a dozen places. Not only this, hut reports re-ports say that the Germans are pulling back before the second American army south of Metz. Deserters say the Germans have begun lo dismantle the mines and iron mills of i the Prley basin, which have furnished four-fifths of their war steel since they stole the mines In 1914. News of great events had spread through our ranks. Ton hours on the roads today, I passed hundreds of trucks of doughboys humping along in the twin and yelling and cheering that they had whipped the boche. if anything remains to be done we have ninny divisions which will never feel satisfied until they get at least one blow at the Huns ' A |