Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10

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war is at hand should be discourage
ed, the chief of staff said, but the
time has come to keep the enemy
running and to hit him hard. The
81 eatest advantage to the allies is
that they have taken the offensive
and can keep the enemy guessing in
stead of guessing themselves.
. YankS Not in Drive
Although the British war office
has announced it. General March
had no official information that
American troops are participating in
the drive in Picardy. which already
has enabled the allied forces to bring
the enemy's main line of communi-
cation under gun fire.
The chief of staff read a confiden-
tial report showing the British had
taken in the first days of the drive
more prisoners than they could
handle, and also had captured all
enemy artillery in their immediate
front The report added that Ger
man general sand his staff had been
captured.
Turning to the situation on the
Nesle General March said French and
and American troops had been nib
Eling' along that line but had made
no attempt as yet to advance up the
slopes north of the river where the
German lines of chief resistance are
supposed to stand.
May Duplicate Marne Battle
The temporary stabilization of the
fighting on the Vesle front had been
promptly met by Marshal Foch, he
added by the blow at Picardy where
events of the Marne battle seem like
iy TO be duplicated.
The importance of the allied ad-
vance on Chaulnes, a junction on the
only railway line the enemy has
over which to withdraw from the
Depths of his Picardy position, was
pointed out. Pressure against this
point is placing the Germans in a
difficult situation.
Laying emphasis on the necessity
of pressing on vigorously and giving
the enemy no chance to rest or read
just himself, General March said
this was the object of the war de-
partment in seeking to raise the age
limits of the draft and to hurry to
France ever-increasing American
forces.
Rainbow Division East of Rheims
In answer to questions, General
March said the Forty-second Grain
bowl division, after receiving its
combat training in Lorraine, had
joined the French east of Rheims on
July 15 and helped to break the
enemy drive at that place. Reading
from a record of the divisions move
ments, he said that in eight days of
battle, it had forced passage of the
Durcq, met six different enemy divi-
Bions and had advanced sixteen
l<ilometers and taken prisoners from
each of the opposing enemy divisions
The 29th Division is in Alsace
southeast of Epinal the 10Th still is
in the American training areas and
the S5th now is arriving in France,
It's infantry having landed and its
artillery being about to land The
27th Division, under Major General
Organ and composed of New York
National Guard, was last reported
with the British in Flanders.
General March made no reference
TO the number of American troops
now overseas or on the way. Last
week he told the correspondents that
the number had passed the 1,30O,-
600 mark. ....
Washington, Aug. 10.-The Brit
ish War Office official statement TO-
Aday on the drive in Picardy reveals
for the first time the fact that Amer
lean troops are taking part in this
smashing blow there against the enc
my. There had been no information
here to show that men from this
country were in the drive and the
identity of the unit or units is not