Republican farmer., 1918-10-04
Pressing Forward Through lilly Country North of
 Verdun. WEATHER THICK
 WITH LIGHT RAIN Advance Over Difficult Ground Regarded as Fine
 Feat of Arms. ...

I OII1 GA1O 1l0W llll0 ICoClleu Thursday night, the American forces between the Argonne and the Mouse continue to press northward through the hilly wooded country northwest of Verdun. The Americans are we'll beyond the original Ger man lines and hold important observation points along the front.
 American Army on the verdun Front, Sept. 27, 10 a. m.-(By the Associated Press)-The American ad- vance continued during last night on | the front of the offensive launched yesterday. The American patrols push ed forward, maintaining contact with | the enemy. Stout machine gun re- sistance met during the late night at one point was quickly, overcome with tanks and artillery.
 The weather today was thick, light rains having begun in the early morn- ing in the field of the American op- eration obscuring observation. Late information tends to confirm | the belief that the German heavy ar tillery was caught in the act of with drawal and was unable to operate o1 reply satisfactorily. It is not known at this hour whether any of the enemy big guns were captured. The machine gun opposition met by the Americans was in the Bois Cuises (This may be the Cierges wood, three miles northwest of Montfaucon, the reported yesterday.)
 Paris, Sept. 27-Offensive-Ame ican troops in their attack northwes of Verdun appear to have attained al and more than all they attempted. | The Americans were confronted b, the German Fifth Army. This fore had been diluted, which explains tn, relatively small number of prisoner taken.
 The American advance over mos difficult ground amidst woods, is look ed upon here as a fine feat of arms Montfaucon whose heavy silhouett dominates the horizon, was passed b, the Americans and now is we'll within the newly conquered. ground. Tn, Argonne forest itself is dead ground between the two attacking fronts, bu the capture by the mericans of Mont blainville Con the eastern outskirts o the forest) bottles up the German
 holding the positions in front of Fou de Paris.
 Germans there now have tn French in front of them and tn Americans at their backs.
 The Germans, it is believed here have only one division in the Argonn This force now has no other mean of retreat but over the rough road
 leading northward through the woods l By taking Varennes and Montfau l con with series of positions tha l General von Gallwitz considered S y impregnabIe that he could not hay : taken indispensable precautions" say s Marcel Hutin in the Echo de Pari.
 "the Americans have given a mag > niicent new edition of their victor e in the St. Mihiel salient
 Washington, Sept. 27-First detail T of the new victory of the America
 forces, reported last night by Gen : eral Pershing in his daily com
 munique, caused elation in Washing
 ton today.
 Capture of the strong position c
 Montefaucon appeared to observers 8
 the most striking feature in the re A port of the American commander. Identification by General PershIn x of the troops operating around Val
 ennes, Montblancville, Vaquoes an A Cheppy as units from Pennasylvani; A Kansas and Missouri also was re 7 garded as significant, making as
 did the first time the American con
 mander has seen fit to make publ le the divisions taking part in the fir! -n stages of large operation.