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Show PERSHING'S MEN 01 MOSELLE RIVER FIRST AMERICAN ARMY AT GERMANY'S GER-MANY'S FRONTIER, READY TO GO OVER. Entire St. Mihiel Salient Captured and More Than 13,000 Prisoners Taken by Victorious Americans in Five Days' Fighting. Washington. Americans forces are in possession of the entire St. jMihiel salient to -points twelve miles northeast of that, town anil have cap-'- tured upwards of 13,300 prisoners, General Pershing reports in his of-. of-. ficial communique, made public Fri day by the war department. The American forces' have captured . more than thirty towns and villages since the advance toward Berlin began. be-gan. The St. Mihiel salient is no more. .Where before dawn Friday a German Ger-man wedge, fifteen miles deep and twenty wide, poked its ugly head with arrogant challenge far fnto French Lorraine, between Verdun and Toul, the last German menace on the entire western front, Pershing's first American Ameri-can army was squatting squarely in front of Germany's frontier at night, resting up after the hardest and fastest fast-est tussle of the war, consolidating the gained ground, counting prisoners prison-ers and booty, and singing, "Where Do We Go From Here?" Clear across what was the neck of the German hernia, from Cheminot, east of the Moselle, via Pagny, on the German frontier to Domartin, northeast of St. Mihiel, runs the first line of American trenches and the great pocket below that line swarms with Yankee troops. Thousands of Germans are still within the pocket, but they are in great danger of being captured. It took the Americans just thirty hours to smash the great salient to bits and half a dozen more for "mop-. . ping up." France marvels anew at the lightning speed and unquenchable unquench-able thirst for action the doughboys displayed in this, their own battle, as they did when they fought breast to breast with the 'poilus on the Marne. The yeomen knocked the Teuton terror ter-ror into a cocked hat. To begin with it was Fridav, the 13th. The number of prisoners is estimated esti-mated at 13,000. On the right the1 advanced thirteen miles from Fey-en-Saye to Pagny. And It was General Pershing's birthday. birth-day. No wonder the boys were in a hilarious mood. |