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Show ARGOfKlE IS DOIIIIATEO BYAU.IES Grandpre Past Falls Before Be-fore Great 1 Onrush of Yankees and Poilus Through Dense Forest : - By Fred 5. Fergu$on United Prate Staff Correapondent. WITH THE AMERICAN KIKST ARMY, Oct. 11. French troop, cooperating with the Americans in the Argonne, have reached the ontnkirta of ( rand pre. Further to the left the Krem h have died tha railway atatlnn at tha wni -ern approach to th fimndpre pan. Tha Important cut through tha Ar-gonna Ar-gonna maaaif ti thua In control of the all lea and tha moat Important drfenaea In tha great format hava boap wiped out. Tha Americana. In tha eastward, hava reached Hommeranra, and occupied occu-pied another large aectlon of tha Krelrtihllde Una. GREATEST AIR ATTACK. 8t. Juvln (three milea eaat of Orand-pra Orand-pra la a maaa of rulna. Ita varloua depots and railway aatabllahmenta amaahed and burning Chleera (between (be-tween Ht, Juvln and Oranopre) la ahlaaa and practically every t Important centrr In tha ermn rear la partially burned or amaahed aa a reatilt uf tSjP higgeM aerial atlark In hlatory. 1000 PLANES BUSY. Mora than 460 planea participated, under tha direction of tha American Tlrat army. American. French and Hrltlah bombing; planea dropped thirty-two tone if high exploalves. Tha entire fleet. Including convoya, awing-Ing awing-Ing over tha llnea. blackened Ihe aky. In aadltion, other machmea enguged In iflhelr regular mlaalona. More than 1000 allied planea .were operating over the front In the t'hampagne and Moselle areas, simultaneously. ROLLS 4000 FEET. They went as far aa Meslerea and fledan (forty mllea beyond the HneaK Damvlllera (north of Verdun) waa aet oa fire. Twelve Oerman planea attacked at-tacked the allied squadrons near Item-vHlera. Item-vHlera. Lieutenant I'hrlan'a machine caught fire and plunged U"0 feet. Me righted It Just before It struck the ground and received only slight tirulaea and burns. He walked aeroas No Man's land Into the American llnea. PAR 1 8, (Vt. II-WHhln twenty fet of a huge crater made by a (iernuin bomb, enlrtistre found a. lark's nest with four esra) In It uninjured. Tha mother hint had Juet left tha eggs and the eolrilera placed protecting hrmha about tha naai. Ker yaroe alioiit trees had been redbvMieforre nf th exp'owlnti. |
