The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-18
YANKS ADVANCE
! ON LONG FRONT
Prepare to Storm Defenses Sur.
rounding Metz as Germans
Take Stand on New Line.
.. S. FLYERS RAKE FOE
Duluarlans Attacked on Macedonian
Front by French and serbs-Brit-
Ish Draw Nearer to st. Quentin
Foe Retreats In Flanders.


With the Americans on the Metz
Front, Sept. 1.-THE American po-
sItIons on the eIuht-miIe front be-
tween JauIny ION the Mad river
are improved, the Germans further
~retreatInp In that region.
London. Sept. 17.-Allied troops are
on the offensive on the Macedonian
front. Reorganized Serbian forces,
aided by French units, are attacking
the Bulgarian positions in the noun
tains on the Serbo- Greek border east
OF Monastir.
Three important hill positions which
had withstood Allied efforts through
several years, already have fallen to
the Serbs and the French. The heights
are Sokol, Dobro Pole and Teak Vet
renik. Sokol is 20 miles east OF Mon
astir. The captured positions are
about midway between the Cerna and
vardar rivers and command the up
per course of the Cerna after 1t makes
= wide curve southeast of Monastir.
Several hundred prisoners have been
taken In the advance, which continues.
French and British Advance.
Meanwhile the French and British
troops on the main = battlefront In
France continue their progress.
Between the Disc and the Aisne the
French are pressing o n North of the
Aisne they have taken the town of
Vailly and nearer the Chemin des
Danes have stormed Mount des
Singes, an important hill position.
Astride the Scarpe the British have
pushed forward new posts. while along
the Ypres-Cominos canal, southeast OF
Ypres. they have advanced on a front
OF two miles. West OF Cambria and
around st. Quentin the activity has
died down after the British capture
Of Maissemy.
". 8. Planes and Guns Busy.
The aerial and artillery arms have
been active on the new American
'front.' southwest OF Metz. The enemy
guns have been hammering the Ameri-
can lines, but no infantry attacks have
developed. Allied aviators have bonn
barded railroad centers and other mill
tary targets In the Metz area, while
enemy airmen have bombed some
places within the American lines, In
Guiding st. Mihiel.
Intense aerial activity marked the
American operations In Lorraine to-
day. Allied airplanes dropped more
than IL tons Of bombs on Courcelles,
Qhrauge. Saarhrucken, Boulay. Bull.
DOnaans and other points. The bombs
dropped on Contains were directed
against the railway yards. the center
u the German communications in this
region The roads crossing the Mo-
pelle also were attacked by the air
men, Many direct hits were observed.
An enemy train was hit at Longuyon.
Pursuit groups, protected by a bar
eago, carried out numerous raids and
scored victories in several engage
nents. Attempts of German aviators
to cross the American line we're In
successful generally.
Austrians Denounce Prussians.
Austrian prisoners captured by the
Americans are bitter In their denunci-
alton of the Germans. They accuse
The Germans Of leaving them in the
lurch.
Austrian officers declare they were
aot warned Of the American attack
and that repeated requests for ammu-
nition were ignored. The Germans.
nay add, gave their entire attention
10 extricating themselves from the
salient.