The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-04
OLD GOTH MADE
PRUSSIA GUARD
TAKE TO HEELS
L. S. Has 100000 Beating
Crack Germans in Aisne-
Marine Salient.
NEW OVERSEAS RECORD
American Has 100000 Men
Across-3O0,00O Shipped
in July.
sp,riai Despatch to TIE STU.

w,sutsGroN, Aug 3.-Gen. March.
Chief OF STAFF announced at his confer
snce with the newspaper correspondents
today that 1t was the Forty-second
Rainbow Division, including the fighting
s,,tvninth, which had met and de-
fs,,sj the Kaiser's crack Prussian
Guards earlier in the week. Cable ad-
vices have now come from Gen. Per-
shing Identifying the American division.
Eight divisions Of American troops are
rou actively engaged in the battle on
tina Aisne- Marine salient. Gen. March
stated, on a basis OF $4,000 combatant
,roops in division this makes the
American forces engaged in the fighting
c,s.oOO As each division includes
$4,000 troops in all $4,000 are involved
in this area alone. Gen. Pershing as
result Of recent transfers of American
div,sions which had been brigaded with
the british now has 100000 men under
his direct command, Gen. March said.
New Record for July.
The number Of American troops now
shippcd overseas has passed the l.3OO.-
900 mark. The total embarkation Of
troops during July was more than 3o0.-
900. and broke all records. The previous
high record was for June. when 276,0OO
we're shipped overseas.
American divisions now fighting in
the Marine salient have been formed into
an army corps on the centre of the
allied forces driving forward Major
Gen. Liggett is in active command Of
that corps.
Discussing the progress OF the battle
in the Marne salient Gen. March said
the objective of the American and allied
armies still Is the destruction Of the
enemy's army. The collapse of the Ger
man resistance on August l and the fall
OF scissors had been caused, he said, by
the successful attacks OF the British and
French at both TANKS of the salient.
Gen. March said that the complete
success of the Allies is indicated by a
confidential message reaching him from
an officer who at the time of writing.
rad Just returned from Fere-en Tarde-
nois THE officer reported that II was
seemingly impossible for any army to
gather the number of guns and shells
that were abandoned by the Germans in
their retirement. This is the first OFF,
cal statement SO far made concerning
th4 great amounts OF war booty cap
tured by the American and Allied forces.
Germans Forced to Hurry.
The message added that the Germans
had been driven back without burying
their dead and the German bodies lay so
thickly that it was impossible to ad-
vance without walking on them.
Gen. March announced the Brigadier
Generals who had been recalled from
France for duty in this country as fol-
lows: James j. Holbrook. to the South
ern Department: Charles w. kutz
command the Engineering camp at
camp Humphreys Douglas Macarthur
command the Twenty-hrst Brigade OF
the Eleventh Division at Camp Meade
Maryland Howard r. Hickok, command
brigade in the Tenth Division at Camp
Funston, Kansas and Cornelius Wander
pilt, command a briS ade at Camp Lewis
Washington, George c. Sassarrans
Seventeenth Brigade. Ninth Division
camp Sheridan. Alabama. and John y.
lodges, Twenty-third Brigade, Twelfth
Division, Camp Devens, Massachusetts
Analysis of Retreat.
Gen. March's statement said in part
When ! spoke to you last on We'd
nesday the two opposing lines had been
nearly stationary and engaged In more
or less desperate fighting during July
20 and 81 Since that time blows on
both Hanks were resisted by the Ger
mans until on August l heavy attacks
by the British and French on the Chau-
dun Plateau. south Of scissors and fur
Their southeast around Deuceneux. bent
back the enemy's line at this point for
distance something like two miles
The result of these blows on the tanks
forced retirement along the entire
German front on August 2.
"On the west flank the enemy had to
retire across the Crise River, and the
French walked into scissors. In the
centre during the day of August the
retirement covered an average distance
Of from three to four miles on a front
Of thirty miles.
"On the east flank on the heights
west Of Rheims our advance was finally
on A four mile front for a distance OF
about one mile.
our line last evening ran nearly
parallel to the valley of the combined
Nese and Andre rivers, and the dis
lance from wnere we are to their posi-
lion. which Is more or less natural