Show AMERICANS TAKE DOZEN r 1 ADJAN ADVANCE E SEVEN EVEN MILES MILES' IN ONE DAY AND AriD TAKE OVER FI E THOU THOUSAND AND PRISONERS Pennsylvania PennsYlva-nia Kans Kansas Kansas' Missouri s and nd Missouri Troops Break Through German Lines Despite Desperate Resistance i i Making Great reat pains Gains l' l Washington Attacking Thursday morning on a a front of twenty miles west vest of Verdun in operation co-operation with the he French the American first army arm advanced ad to ah ail average depth of seven miles an and 1 captured tj twelve lve towns and more prisoners Four Four Four-df of f the towns were carried b by storm by Pennsylvania Kansas and url troops of Major General gett gett's corps General Pershing said In his official statement on the battle re received l- l received re- re at the war department The enemy offered stubborn resistance of other corps forced their forced their way across the the- Forges brook took tool the Bois de l Forges orges and wrested eight towns owns from a rom the enem enemy The Pennsylvania troops referred to toby toby toby by General Pershing evidently are are noser forming the th Twenty-eighth Twenty rational oa- oa while the Kan Kan- ional guard division and Missouri troops make mul up the I Twenty fifth national guard div lon sian siou At last last accounts accounts the Twenty Twenty- eighth division n was vas vas' under Major General General General Gen Gen- and the Twenty fifth eral C. C H. H Muir under M Major jor General W. W R R. Smith The Twenty eighth or c rj 11 on J on had been een In hard fighting here- here heretofore heretofore having held the center of then the American merican n line line- lineIn In the advance across the he July 26 to 31 during the allied offensive of- of beginning of the general when the Marne Aisne-Marne salient sallent was wiped out They The remained in theline the theine line ine until August I G 6 advancing to FIsmes where they were relieved bythe by bythe the he Thirty-second Thirty national guard division division division- landed in The Tl Thirty fifth France last June 9 3 and went on the firing line eleven cleven da days s 's later Inter The They were last reported on the front September 4 i. I |