Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-02
AMERICAN.

November 1 (evening).-The 1st
on the west bank Of the Meuse in
conjunction with the 4th French
army on its left
The perfect cooperation of all
arms-infantry, artillery, airplanes
and tanks-succeeded in overcoming
and disorganizing the enemy's deter
mined resistance, and breaking up
his counter attacks. Enemy divisions.
rapidly brought up. were inter-
mingled with units already in line
In a vain attempt to stop our adj
vance.
Our victorious troops have already
taken and passed beyond st. Georges.
Landreville. Chennery, Bayonville,
Removable and Estanne (probably
Andevanne), and Clery-le-Grand.
have been counted, of whom Isl are
officers.
BRITISH.
November AT dawn this morning
English and Canadian troops attacked
on front Of about six miles south
Of Valenciennes. After sharp fighting
in which exceptionally heavy casual
ties were inflicted on the enemy, we
forced passage of the Rhonalle.
Maresches and Aulnoy and have
reached the line of the railway in
the southern outskirts Of Valen-
ciennes. Strong opposition was met
with particularly north of Maresches
and the village of Aulnoy. There were
determined counter attacks by the
enemy on the high ground west of the
PFeSean- nriannaa rnoa
In spite of these attacks we main
tanned our positions on the ridge
This evening further counter attacks
developed northeast and north of Aul-
noy. In the course of these operations
we captured between 1000 and 5000
prisoners.
In the month Of October the British
forces in France captured over $4,000
German prisoners, including 1900 Of
ficers. In the same period we cap
tured 925 guns, including many heavy
cannon. seven thousand machine guns
and $40 trench mortars.
In the area of the enemy's retrea,
enormous stocks of munitions, ma
teria1 and stores have fallen into ou1
hands, including several locomotives
quantities of rolling stock. many
wagons, few tanks and hundreds Of
tons Of wire. Several thousand tons
Of road metal, hundreds of miles Of
telephone cable and a great number
Of engineer material dumps also were
taken.
On the front Of one army alone the
enemy has abandoned 1000. 900 feet Of
timber. II
The total capture of prisoners in the
the British forces in France during
the past three months Is 1859. Can.
non to the number Of 1857, more thar
1900 machine guns and over 2,75t
trench mortars were captured.
FRENCH.
November 1.-Between St. Quentin lie
Petit and Herpy the fighting was re-
sumed this morning and continued ali
day. In spite Of his resistance the
! enemy had to give up ground in the
region of Banogne and Recouvrance
| To the west Of Herpy we captured
prisoners.
! junction with the American Army on
the right, attacked this morning on
the Aisne front to the north and south
of vouziers on a front Of twenty
kilometers from the region to the east
Of Attigny to the north of Clizy: We
penetrated into German positions
strongly held and defended with stub
bornness to the east of Attigny.
We have captured Dilly-aux-OieS.
Furthur south our troops have
crossed the Aisne and carried Semuy
and voncq in sharp fighting and are
pushing theoretically toward the east
They have pushed back the enemy
over three ki,ometers in this locality.
They have deeply penetrated into the
VoncQ wood.
The battle has not been less violent
on the heights to the east Of Vouzfers.
We have taken a foothold on the pla-
teau of Les-Alleux. to the northeast OF
Terror. We have reached the western
outskirts Of the Vandy wood and also
the brook to the east Of Chestres.
On our right our troops have gone
beyond Falaise and have conquered
the crest to the southwest Of the
Primat. Up to the present several
hundred prisoners are reported. with
q certain number Of guns. including
four batteries Of 1865.
Aviation-Our chasing airplanes
have carried out a number OF recon
noitering excursions and have brought
down Eve enemy machines. During
the night some of our machines were
able to drop q ton and q half OF bombs
ON the railway stations at Longuyon
and Dommary-Baroncou where
great activity had been observed.
ITALIAN.
November THE battle continues
to expand The enemy maintains IN
tact his resistance from Stelvio to
the Astico, but he is vacillating on
the Asiago plateau and in full retreat
along the remainder Of the front. He
ID protected more by Interruptions in
the roads than by his rear guard, who
are irresistibly overwhelmed by our
troops. enthusiastically occupied in
the pursuit.
Four batteries, brought forward
quickly with captured enemy artil-