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Show ' j ! Americans Threaten Greatest German Com- nranication Line. i TROOPS ADVANCING i Mews' Front Wont ExcellentGreat Excel-lentGreat Forward Movement. WASHINGTON, Oct 5 The American Amer-ican advance northwest of Verdun threatens the greatest single line of communication between Germany and the west front, General March said today, and General Pershing's forces have now reached a point, within IS miles of this great artery. The progress of General Pershing's forces caused the German general staff to throw into this sector many divisions divis-ions of reinforcements, the chief of staff said, but despite this the Americans Ameri-cans not only have maintained the positions won but have pushed forward for-ward until they now face the German Kriemhilde line of defense. Summarizing the news for the past week as excellent, General March said offensives conducted by the Allies on three major sectors had resulted in a forward movement of the battle front for practically the entire stretch from the North sea to Verdun. General Gouraud's army just west of the Argonne Ar-gonne forest has fought its way forward for-ward to a point where it also threatens threat-ens German communication lines. Americans at St. Quentin The British drive on Chambrai and St Quentin which was aided by the 27th (New York troops) and Thirtieth (Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and District of Columbia troops) American divisions developed into a battle for the entire Hinden-burg Hinden-burg line. The British, General March said, have broken entirely across the enemy's zone .of defense, making breaches in the line which were. closed clos-ed by the Germans only with great difficulty. Rapid Embarking of Troops I Despite the epidemic of Spanish in- fluonza, embarkation of American troops is being continued at the rate of more than 250,000 per month, General Gen-eral March announced today. The total to-tal embarked to date now having passed tho 1,850,000 mark. The September Sep-tember shipments exceeded 250,000 although al-though cases of influenza in camps at home exceeded 100,000. Tho policy of the war department in sending overseas only men who have not had the disease and have not been exposed to it, has necessitated material re-adjustments of the shipping ship-ping schedule, but, has not interferred with tho total number embarked. 75 Miles Reconquered In Flanders the drive of the Allies has re-conquered 75 square miles of Belgian territory and has formed a semi -circle salient ten miles deep. The British are within five miles of Lille. Referring to the Balkan situation General March said the Italian advance ad-vance in Albania is closely following the Austrian army, retiring along the coast. He added that the recent naval attack upon Durazzo, behind the Austrian Aus-trian front, was extremely important in connection with the Allied strategy. American troops at Archangel are commanded by Colonel George E. Stewart and include the 339th Infantry, Infan-try, part of the 310th engineers (Michigan (Mich-igan and east Wisconsin troops) and the necessary hospital and medical |