The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-22
B0CHE MANPOWER
FAST CRUMBL|NC
N ARCH SH 0 " s
AMERICAN, FRENCH, BRITISH
HAVE BROKEN OFFENSIVE
STRENGTH OF THE FOE.
LAST SALIENT is co \ {
Desperate Foe Now Faces Straight
Line From North Sea to Swiss
Border, and He Can Make No
More Flank Attacks.

Washington, Sept. 2l.-Striking
proof that the German power is fast
crumbling came today in the an
nouncement by General March,
chief of staff, that the news from all
battle fronts was continuously
good" and that 1,750,o00 American
troops have now been embarked for
overseas service.
lust six months ago today the en-
emy flung his full military power
against the British lines in Picardy,
in the great drive that was to end
the war in a smashing victory. To-
day, he was fighting desperately to
hold the tottering Hindenburg line,
the defensive system from which he
struck that blow and back into which
he has been been hurled.
Side by side. British, French and
American armies have broken del
initelv the German offensive power,
III official opinion here. Already,
the American forces in France are
more than half as strong as the
whole German army and the tide OF
American fighting men toward
France is continuing.
The situation on the British bat
tie fronts was tersely summarized
bv General March today as follows;
News during the week has been
from all fronts continually and
continuously good. On the western
front our new line in Lorraine was
quickly stabilized. The enemy has
been hurriedly strengthening his
line OF defense, the so-called krlem-
hild line, which lies only mile in
front OF our new line on a front OF
about 20 miles from near Maizeray
10 the Moselle river at Nandires.
We are now ten miles away IRON
Conflans and twelve miles away
from Metz"
Take 10000 Boche.
In Picardy the British and
French renewed their advance on
the Cambrai-St Quentin front, to-
ward the old Hndenburg line. In
spite OF the concentration OF the
enemy forces defending this sector,
the allies made progress and the
enemy is reported TO have lost very
heavily. 1t is now officially con
iirmed that 10000 prisoners have
been captured.
On the plateau northeast OF Sois-
IL E,.an..h h1N,a n,1tIntaI N
force back the enemy'S best troops
until they are now within hall a
mile from the junction OF the Mau-
berg road and the Chemin deS
Danes, and within ten miles OF
Laon. which is being shelled
The reports in the press about the
successful operations OF the Serbian
army on the Balkan front are cor
rect. The Serbian army attacked
the Bulgarans on front of 25 miles
and drove them back about 20 miles.
According TO official reports, the
British have re-opened activities i'll
Palestine.
Rebuilt Western Wall.
The western battle wall has been
rebuilt by the allied and American
forces, according to observers in
Washington. When the first Amer
ican army swiftly trampled out the
St. Mihiel salient, the last possibil-
ity of German strategic stroke
passed. The enemy faces now a
straight line from the North sea 10
the Swiss border. There are no
salients to give opportunity Tor flank
operations. Even if the power for
A counter offensive should be found
and military authorities see no
chance OF that-the German high
comman would face the costly busi-
ness of frontal attacks. They have
nothing, it is pointed out. not a sim
gle strategic position, to show for
their great drive.
But it is more thar restored
offensive line that faces them, Off
GERS say. Along the center OF the
great sweep of the front British and
French armies are storming ahead
night and day, harassing the gray