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Show American Army I Moves Forward in Verdun Territory WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, Oct. 10. 7:40 p. m. (By the Associated Press.) Its way blazed over a wide area by aerial bornb'ers, the American army again moved slightly forward today to-day in the .territory held by the Germans. Ger-mans. The aviators who participated in the brilliant offensive that began late yesterday flew over the enemy lines this afternoon and reported dozens doz-ens of towns still smoldering and a significant quiet in extended areas, which, until now have been the scenes of enemy activity. The aerial operations for the past twenty-four hours have been-far the greatest ever attempted. They included a bombing expedition of over "350 planes. The towns bombed included those from the point farthest east in the Franco-American positions beyond the Meuse to Metz. This expedition was carried out with the loss of only one man. Observers told the officers at headquarters head-quarters tonight that they had been unable to see any movement on the roads where ordinarily German transports trans-ports are moving, and in towns where their presence had not even been reported re-ported otherwise, American troops had been seen bivouacing. Here and there an enemy battery was observed but all reports agreed that in the greater part of what ,had been the Germans' ad-, ad-, vanced area the guns had been moved back. |