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Show i 1 Urges People to Support! Fourth Liberty Loan. I 1,900,000 OVERSEAS) Another 2,000,000 to Go Victory Must Be Made Certain. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. American troops sent overseas have passed the 1,900,000 mark, General March announced an-nounced today, .coupling his statement with an urgent appeal to the country to support the fourth Liberty loan. The present is no time to hang back, General March said, for the maximum resources of the nation and men and money must be "hurled at the Hun." to make victory certain and while the movement of soldiers across the water is continuing the war department is nrnnnrlnir another 2.000.000 men to follow the first 2,000,000. The department has asked congress for ?S,000,000.000 to carry ouj. its program, pro-gram, he added, and the financial support sup-port of that program must not be withheld by the nation. Summing the battle situation on the western front. General March said with the capture of Le Cateau by the British the allied forces were within fourteen miles of the railway junction of Aulnoye. which is a vital strategical point for the enemy. The Liege-Mau-beuge railway and the lateral road through Sedan at which the American army is striking on the Meuse face each other at Aulnoy and theso two lines are the main arteries for German Ger-man supplies and troop movements in France. The Germans are evacuating the Chemin des Dames under the pressure or the converging attacks west and southof it. ' The -line behind Laon, between the rivers Serre . and Sissonne have been . turned, making the German situation in the Laon area most difficult. dif-ficult. In the Champagne the French and Americans joining hands north of ( tho Argonne in the Grandpre gap havejoc-cupied havejoc-cupied the Grandpre station wliile 'patrols 'pa-trols are said to have entered that town itself. j On tho river Mouse northwest pt Verdun tho Americans have cleared out a little pocket in the direction of Slvrv which has held them up a long lime. General March announced the American Am-erican divisions which cleaned, up tho! SL Mhlel salient in the fight which prepared tho way for the present operations op-erations north of Verdun, Pointing from left to right on the map he said the divisions were in line as follows: Fourth (regular); 2Gth (New England Eng-land national guard); First (regular); 42nd (Rainbow); 89th ((Kansas, Mis souri, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colo rado, New Mexico and Arizona national nation-al army); Second (regular). This is the first information made public as to the constitution of the army with which General Pcrsliing achieved a brilliant and swift victory in his first wholly American effort. Locnting various divisions in response re-sponse to questions, General March said the 91st Alnska, Washington, Oregon, Ore-gon, California, Nevada, Idaho, Mon-, Mon-, tana, Wyoming and Utah national I army) was still in the American train -ing "areas; tho 9th (Texas and Oklahoma Okla-homa national army) is on tho St. Mihiel front; the S2nd (Georgia, Ala-j Ala-j bama and Tennessee) is cast of the I Argonne and tho -12nd (Rainbow) is in the Woevre. The first courier from General i Pershing carrying the hospital records of the expeditionary forces for slightly slight-ly wounded men has arrived. General March said the list includes approximately approxi-mately 16,000 'names. This number, he said, was th accumulation for all the period up to the time it was decided to bring the lists by couriers. Many acciderital injuries not con- IH nected with operations at the front IH are included in the first lot of names. The lists are now being checked and soon will be ready for publication. IH Describing the operations at the front during the past few days, Gen-eral Gen-eral March said the Anglo-American drive between St. Quentin and Cam-bral Cam-bral had shaken the enemy's rcsls-lance rcsls-lance and resulted in at least tompor-ary tompor-ary disorganization in the German ranks. A total of 14 miles in tbrec days ha. been gained by the Allied forces, marking tho most rapid advance made since tho counter-offensive began. East of the Meuse the American jH and French forces have pushed for-ward for-ward a mile and a half on a four niilo IH front and are now within ten miles of the Valencionnes-Metz railway sys-tem, sys-tem, the cutting of which would break one of the' Germans' main communica-tion communica-tion lines back to Germany.- |