Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-15
ThoroughneSS and SwiftneSS
With Which the Operation
Was Carried Out Lauded by
Press Of Great Britain,
JUST AS WE EXPECTED
is GlST OF OPINIONS
News and Editorial Columns
of Papers Teen With Com
mandatory Articles Of Per-
shing'S Great Stroke,

10y MoRNino JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASE, wIRE1
London, Sept 14-Chief place is
given again in this mornings London
newspapers TO the American achieve
ments in the St Mihie sector. Both
in the news and the editorial columns
hearty tributes are given 10 the
thoroughness with which the opera.
ton was completed
No surprise is implied that the
Americans should have succeeded 81
well. On the contrary the newspapers
concur that what happened was only
what might have been expected from
the fighting qualities the Americans
displayed when they fought as units
under French and British commands
Nothing like first hand technical
account of the flattening of the salient
had reached London UP to this morn
ing and the inadequate detailed
stories at hand do not carry the op-
erations further than Thursday even
ing.
The Daily Telegraph. after con-
graduating the Americans on their
feat of arms--a real triumph ac.
complished in mastery STYLE" says:
Await the Full Story.
THE full story will be awaited with
the deepest interest 1t seems toler-
ably clear that the great majority of
German troops holding the salient
were cut off by the rapidity of the
American advance and that the op-
position on the other side of the
wedge collapsed on the second morn
ing. 1t will be a great tale when 1t
is told The explanations of the re-
verse offered in the German COM
munique are childish"
The Daily Mail under the headllna
america has made good" discussed
the value Of the removal of the sal
lent. The newspaper says
General Pershing is breaking into
a perfect web of railways which has
been of priceless Importance to GEN
eral Ludendorff for maneuvering.
Here, if anywhere, is the enemy's
Achilles heel.
Way Opened for Another Stroke.
"The Americans have not yet
reached this heel, but by threatening
1t they have forced the Germans to
concentrate for its defense. While
the stroke menaces the enemy's COM
municaions it opens the way for
other American attacks on a still
larger scale. The enemy also has lost
the equivalent of two divisions in
prisoners killed and wounded"
The Daily Chronicle says:
General Pershing's brave troops
deserve congratulations on their very
skillful and efficient piece of work.
The United States may well be proud
of the manner in which its young
army comported itself in the first In
dependent offensive"
The Times records the belief that
the final return of prisoners will con-
siderably exceed the number given
in the official statement. and says:
Yanks Acted Separately.
"For all the allied nations the deep
interest in the American victory lies
not so much in its results. which ara
valuable and extensive. but the fact
that a great American force has gone
into battle acting separately. The
German nations now will begin TO
realize as it has never yet the over
whelming and decisive character OF
the new factor which is emerging in
the war.
more was destroyed at st. Mihie
than a German salient. General FER
shing shattered at a blow the mon
strous web of lies which sustained the
pretense that the immense weight ano
almost illimitable resources OF the
United states would be of little or nc
account on the European field OF war
He has shown that the Americans are
as apt to learn the art of war as they
have been to develop the pursuits OF
peace"