Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-09-06
General Planning OTen-
sive That May Push Hinden-
burg's Army Across The Riv-
er ishine-1,6OO,O Ameri.
cans Now in France.

, er Rhine-1,6 100000 Ameri-
cans Now in France.
washington, Sept. l.-Announcc-
ment today by General March. chief
oi stnit, that more than 600 ,OOO
american troops nave been embarked
lor nil fronts up to August 81, fur
i,Sned new measure of forces Mar
shall foch has ut his disposal with
winch to follow up the victories nj
'e',uy won ON the western front.
Included in the American shin
,hen's are men sent to Italy and ST.
nerln, the arrival of Major General
Graves, American commander. nj
Vladivostock with nearly 400 mon
OF The forces dispatched direct from
lhc United States having boen nm
no n""hccd today by General March.
lne total number of men sent else
'whcrc Than to France, however. !,
lesS Than 10000. leaving more than n
milton and half American troops
available for the use of the supreme
commander in the great bnttle.
The size of the American force
bccomcsc increasingly important ns ihn
scope of the new British assault MT
me very center of the German line
ON the Douai- Cambria front becomes
apparent. In the opinion of army Of
l,riala here. the breakdown of the
German defense lines ON this front
hG,y prove the entering wedge for
ai'lcd success of sweeping nature,
since the fact that General Pcrshinr's
army has not yet been cmploycd is
proof that Marshal l'och has ample
reserves with which to press his nd
vantage.
In lis midwcck conference with
newspaper men, General March re-
viewed briefly the battle situation Of
the last three or four days, noting
particularly that the British in tho
most Imprcsaing phrase of the battle
east of Arras, had smashed their
way across the llindcnburg line on
nm eight mile front with Cambria M
llc'r objective. The major enemy re-
aiStcnce along the whole sixty mile
battle front from the Scurpc to the
oiSe, he said, had been encountered
ana overcome by the British, and the
SWIFT advance Of the French troops
last week, when they gained five or
SIX miles ON twenty-five mile front
~ II SINGLE day, was due largely to
withdrawal forced upon the enemy in
HE north.
General March pointed out also M
indicating the rapdity with which tho
battle front is shifting under the
steady drive of the allied armies. that
hc British have pressed ahead four
teen miles since they launched tho
attack on August q.
Even ns General March talked,
word came from the battle front that
the enemy had been hurled still fur
thcr back along the Douia- Cambria
line and indicating that the British
early today stood within four miles
OF the Cambria pivot to the German
defense position. Later reports, both
from Flanders and on the Vcslc, far
to the south, Indicate that new re-
tlrcmcnts were in progress i'm both
places, due TO the combination of tho
british thrust in the center and Gen
cral Mnngin's thanking movement to-
wards the Chcmin- dcs- DANES. The
advance of Franco American forces
across the Veslc Indicate that the
German line at this end of the battle
front is being forced back toward the
Aisnc by the pressure from the flank.
All the dispatches abroad noted
vcilcd Indications that some new and
important phase of the battle is to
be expected shortly. There was an
mir Of expectancy among both unor-
fetal and semi official commentators,
which produces the impression that
Marshal Foch is prepared for new
blow. If this is the case, il is believed
here that the employment of Cen
raj Pershing's army may well be in
cluded in the plaps, the object being
TO hit with the full force of the Amer
lean and allied armies, now that the
German dis0rganization appears TO
be spreading and his line wavcring.
The reports tonight indicated to
many observers that the enemy was
now withstanding along his whole
front from Flanders to Rheims. This
was the deduction made from the
new French advances i'm the pocket
formed by the Disc line around Ham
Cuiscard- Chauny triangle and also
from the movement across the Vesle.
If it develops that the Germans have
been forced by the rupture of their
center to attempt such Wholesale
retreat, it is urged that Marshal
I'och might well believe that the
moment to attempt decisive stroke
has come, since the confusion resul-
ting from the last strokes has been
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