The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-05

The Americans have advanced four
teen miles since Saturday. Their line
tonight is only a mile from both Beau
mont and Stenay.
With the American Army, Nov. 49,
The scale on which American aviator3
are operating in the present drive north
of the Argonne is shown by to4ays
official announcement that in the firssI
+ three days we destroyed ia enemy
planes. Twenty nine of our planes tire
missing.
Our flyers have been causing terrible
havoc among the enemy troops AMI
transport. A series of highly success
full bombing expeditions were carried
out yesterday. Many ammunitioa
dumps we're blown up by BOMBS
dropped from American machines. The
, Yankee aviators did great execution
among the retreating enemy ranks,
sending volleys OF machine gun fire into
the tield gray masses.
West of the Meuse our operations
again were crowned by smashing sue
cesses We captured Bots De Belvai.
Iois De Port and Gerache. and took by
storm the heights, two kilometers.
south of Beaumont.
Further westward We are approseh-
Ting VTerries.
/ All towns on the west bank Of the
Meusc south Of Hailes are in our hands.
huccG11fuI AOvonee.
The advance all along the front on
this. the fourth day of the great push
was a successful as on TIE previous
days. We resumed the pursuit Of tho
enemy on the Argonne front at dawn.
Heavy rains had fallen during tho
might. and this somewhat slowed up
Operations in the early hours of rho
attack The weather is cloudy today.
I We captured more than dozen
square miles OF territory.
The crushing blow dealt to the pivot
! of the German defense has caused great
confusion among the enemy. His trans
! port is ciogging the avenues OF retreat
and at some points there Is a veritablo
stampede. In certain parts Of the front
/ the Germans are abandoing artillery,
ammunition and equipment
| The loss of the vast Bourgonne for
j effected junction. was = serious re.
verse for the Teutons.
Stenay, the important railway juno
ton toward which we are driving. was
set afire by our aviators yesterday. The
town now Is ALMOST within our grasp
Just ahead of the rapidly moving
centre lies the Ferret de Maxarin. less
than ten kilometers (six and = half
miles) north Of which runs the COW
zieres. key to the only enemy line sup
plying the communication with the
armies in the south.
Hun Line Reels Back.
| London. Nov. 4.--The whole Ger
man line between the Dutch border
and the east OF the Mouse In again
Keeling backwards under the shock Of
terrific blows
Pershings first army swept forward
ON a front of nearly twenty miles
astride the Meuse. battered In the
German retrcating hinge. and tonight
stands less than ten miles south OF g.
| dan.
| French. British and ArnAr3can
troops attacking on a forty-mfle front
south OF the Scheldt toward Mons ana
MaubeuEe, broke down the German
resistance everywhere. took ten thou
sand prisoners and 200 guns ana
reached the Franco Belgian frontier
east OF Valenciennes. They are to-
night only ten miles west OF the for
trcss OF Maubcuge and thirteen miles
southwest OF Mons
| Further north. French and Aneri-
can troops cleaned they west hank Of
the Scheldt above Audenarde ana arc
ready to cross the stream
! On their left British forcae have
forded the Scheldt north OF Journal
Client May BE Taken
| On the extreme left OF the western
line, between the Dutch border ana
Client. the Belgians followed up their
great advance Of yesterday. ana
Client Is unofficially reported u their
hands
/ The new great retreat OF the rau-
tons was forced chiefly BY the smaAA-
ing OF their pivotal front astride tho
Meuse. The main line of German
communication there. ruuAtng
through Sedan and Montmedy, b NM
der continuous American flre.
! More than Ave thousand prisoners
had been taken BY Pershinxs troops rp
to late this afternoon. and since the
inception OF the drive Saturday they
have advanced more than fourteen
miles. freeing forty French villages
| The drive spread to the east bank
of the Mouse today - far as Rsmot-
VILE.
On their left they are greatly a1dAA
by General Gouraud's French fourth
army. which. In turn, IL supported Nv
the northwest By MAugfn's and d.
beney's forces Debeney's army haa
crossed the Sambre- Oise canaI, ana
on his left tho British are thrsa mllao
beyond It. 3ss
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