Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
Continued from Rage One

Continued from rare One
minor movements calculated to con.
Solidate the American line, which now
has become firmly fixed
Allied nighthombing airpanes sun
day night dropped more than seven.
teen tons of bombs on CourcelleS,
Ehranse, Saarbrucken, Boulay. Buhl,
Conf1ens and other points. The bombs
dropped on Contans were directed
against the railway yards. the center
OF the German communications III this
region. The roads crossing the Mo
selle also were attacked by the airmen.
Many direct hits We're observed. An
enemy train was hit at Longuyon.
Pursuit groups. protected by a bar.
rage, carried out numerous raids and
scored victories in several engage.
ments. Attempts of German aViatolS
TO cross the American line were un.
successful generally
Enemy airplanes last night attacked
points within the American lines.
Bombs were dropped on ST. Mihiel and
/ the Germlns used their machine guns
against that town, but with little If.
feet
Reports from different points along
the line show that the number of
guns and the general material cap.
tured by the Americans is increasing.
An entire artillery park was captured
at Jaulny.
Austrian prisoners captured by the
Americans are bitter in their denunC.
alton of the Germans. They accuse
the Germans of leaving them in the
/ lurch. Austrian officers declare they
were not warned of the American at.
tack and that repeated requests for
ammunition were ignored. The Ger.
mans, they add, gave entire attention
to eXtricating themselves from the
salient.
London. Septh 16.-The Americans
/ in Lorraine. driving toward the
knimhild line, the chief German de.
Tense system, yesterday gained two
to three miles on A thirty.three-mile
front from Abancourt, southeast Of
! Nerdun. TO the German border. Gen.
eral Pershing's troops are under fire
from the Met zfortress. and in reply
have sheRled that redoubt and its de.
fenses.
Washington. Sept. l6.--In wipinr
out the st. Mihiel salient. American
troops, supported by French divisions
captured $1,000 prisoners. more than
200 guns of all calibers. hundreds of
machine guns and trench mortars
! This was disclosed bv General PERISH.
ing's communicates for Saturday 70.
ceived last night at the War Do
partment.
That the Americans still are prcss-
ing on, at least in part of the sector
was shown bN the cOmmunioue ro,.
Yesterday, which said that on the lori
bank Of the Moselle the America ~
! lines had been extended to from ono
! to two miles, during which operation
seventy-two guns were brought in
! The line now includes the towns of
Nilcey and Norroy. The enemy re-
acted near st. Hilaire, but his coun-
ter-attack easily was repulsed and
additional prisoners taken. the Amer.
! lean commander reported.
1.-The dash and vigOr of our troops
and of the valiant French divisions.
! which fought shoulder to shoulder
with them" says General Pershing
| lis shown by the fact that the forces
| attacking on both faces OF the salient
| effected a junction and obtained the
result desired within twenty-seven
| hours.
Besides liberatns more than $50
square miles of territory and taking
| $4,000 prisoners. we have captured a
mass of material. In spite of the fact
that the enemy during his retreat
| burned large stores, a partial exam
! jnation of the battlefield shows that
! great quantities of ammunition. tele-
| graph and railroad material, rolling
| stock. clothing and equipment have
been abandoned Further evidence of
| the haste with which the enemy re-
! treated is found in the uninjured
bridges which he left behind"