Licking Valley courier., 1918-09-19
GERMANS Give
UP ST. MIHIEL
SALIENT, REPORT
Berlin Officially Admits Retreat
/ to New Lines Which
Were Prepared.
AMERICANS take $500 MEN
sixty Guns Taken From Huns In Big
Drive-Enemy Burns Ammunition
Dumps at Hattonville and DOM
boux-Reported Lille Being
Evacuated.

Evacuated.
Berlin, Sept. Awe now are
standing on our new lines which have
been prepared" says the official state
ment reporting military operations on
the western front, issued by the Ger
man general staff. During the night"
the statement adds, "the evacuation
Of the (st. MihieD salient, which was
liable to encirclement, and which had
been under consideration for some
years, was completed without interfer-
ence."
London, Sept. 14.-Numerous fugi-
tives are reported to be arriving at
Malines and Antwerp, according to a
Central News dispatch from Amster-
dan. Apparently Lille is being evacu-
ated, the dispatch says.
London, Sept. 14.-General Per-
shings troops so far have captured
$500 prisoners and have taken sixty
German guns. The Germans are blow
ing up the ammunition dumps at Hat
tonville and Domboux..
Americans Gain Ten Miles.
London, Sept. 14.-General Per
shings forces In their attack on the
southern side of the st. Mihiel salient
have advanced for distance of ten
miles. The assault was made Oh a
front of fourteen miles.
The Americans were making rapid
progress In their continuation Of their
drive.
German prisoners say the American
attad was expected, but that 1t was
deliv ID so rapidly that they had no
x 4 pSaSd ~-..pan,/-
swnel .ley were ordered to. o.r%hes'
which was energetically defended by
the Germans, was easily captured by
the Americans.
Take Four Towns.
The Americans are reported to have
captured vigneulles, seven and a half
miles north of Xivray; through which
the former line ran.
If these places really have been cap
tured, the neck of the st. Mihiel salien;
has been narrowed TO less than six
miles, and If the two German divisions
3 reported last night to be in the
salient, still are there, II is decidedly
improbable that they will be able to
get away.
On the west side of the st. Mihiel
salient, where the country Is much
more difficult and where the. German
Resistance has been more determined
the Americans have made an advance
of three miles on n twelve-mile front
st. Mihiel Captured?
with the Americans on the Metz
front. Sept. 14.-It is unollicially re
= ported the French have occupied st
MIhiel (at the tip of the salienD. Th'
important town Of Thlaucourt wa
taken by the Americans. They als'
seized Bouillonvllle and Nonsard.
80 Yanks Destroy Hun Nests.
Paris. Sept. 14.-Americans are har
assing the Germans at many point
along the front south Of the 81. MI
hlel salient, where the big battle Is he
ing fought,
In a series of daring raids in Lon
raine and In the Vosges the America
captured numerous enemy positions
penetrated the German line at som
points, meeting resistance, and befOr
retiring destroyed all the material the
y coudnt carry away.
Machine-gun nests, blockhouses an
dumps were blown up and very heav
losses inflicted on the enemy. Artlllei
fire Is quiet on the less active stretcI
es Of the front.
st. Mlhiel Sector Reduced.
Paris, Sept. 14.-It is understood Il
st. Mihel sector has been reduce
The censor will not permit the public
tion of the names Of the towns on Il
present American line.
Where Do We Go From Here2
4 With the American Army In 1t
raine, Sept. 14.-After the Americi
artillery had reached II drumtre
tenslty the American soldiers we
over the top behind n barrage singh
loudly: "Where do we go from he
boysr
American Gun Fire Deadly.
with the American Army in IL
IS raine, Sept. 14-Prlsoners unanlmo1
ly testify to the accuracy and the dei
illness of the American preparatory
tIllery fire. Observers n0d so compile
ly located the principal German wol
in advance that the enemy troops COZ
only take to their dugouts and aw
thaAend OF the bombardment.
Germans Seek to Save Guns.
With the American Army on the L
rlInc Front, Sept l4.-The Germ'
are attempting to remove their ar
lerye.0 the rear of Vigneulles under
stress of the American attack. IT
were meeting with great difficulty, h
ever, and were belng hampered by
planes, as we'll rs artillery fire.
Germans have lost guns, trench II
tars and many machine guns.
Americans Press On, Paris Say
Paris, Sept. 14.-The American
tacks In the region OF St. Mlhlel