The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-15
AMERICANS MUST
co To LIMIT NOW
Should Increase, Not SIacken,
Effort In Face of Present
Successes, Says Gen.
eraI March.
BY United Press.

Washington, Aug. 12.-The time for
Americas greatest effort in the pres
cnt war has arrived, Chief of Staff
March, declared today in his talk with
correspondents.
This country must hit hard and keep
he foe running. he said, indicating
that there will be no relaxation in
Foch's driving tactics.
He discouraged any talk Of the war
being over.
The greatest advantage of the pres
ent military situation, he declared, is
that the allies now have the enemy
guessing instead Of guessing them
telves. He added that Americas de-
nand for greater man power resources
s caused by the need for striking the
hardest blows possible from this time
IN.
Reading a confidential cable regard
ing the allied offensive in Picardy.
March disclosed the fac that British
prison camps cannot hold the prison.
ers being taken. He confirmed the
capture Of a German general and his
gtaff, and said that In the center of
The line, the allied troops encountered
little opposition.
THE Rainbow division" March said,
iht' VI u l ia NtiS ISA-
raine sector north of Luneville. 1t
left that position to arrive east Of
Rheims, where on July Is 1t helped
break the main German attack, When
the French-American counter offensive
was launched on the Marine salient the
division appeared there shortly in re-
lief Of other units. Dur reports indi-
cate the following:
I'm eight days Of battle the Forty
second division has forced the passage
Of the Ourcq. taken prisoners from six
enemy divisions, met, routed, decimat-
ed a crack division of the Prussian
guards, a Bavarian division and one
other division and driven back the en-
emy's lines for 16 kilometers.'"
Discussing the situation created by
the advance east of Amiens, the general
said ii had caused a new pocket, sim
liar to that on the Scissors Rheims
line. It's chief peril 10 the German lines
is the threat to the railroad linz of
communication running south from
Chaulnes. over this line, the German
troops in the Montdidier section OBJ
tanned their supplies. Capture Of this
railroad by the allies would force a
German retirement along the Montdid-
Ter line.
General March indicates that this
railroad is now under heavy fire from
the allies.
Inc Efln DIVISION tNeW 1Ofk) COM
manded by Major General Organ, has
been with the British in Flanders for
some time, March disclosed. IT was
suggested by other officials that these
forces may be brigaded with the Brit
ish in the present fighting although
March declares he had received no Of
fetal word that Americans were fight
ing in that sector.
On the Vesle river front French and
American troops have been nibbling at
the German positions without attempt
ing to go up the strongly held slopes,
beyond which the German intrench-
ments lie. March said Marshal sFoch
has kept up the pressure on this line
on the sound principle that when you
get the enemy going, keep him going.
March declared hat he thought it
was safe to announce that the S5th di-
vision is now arriving in France. He
also stated that the 18th division is still
in the training areas.