Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-09-19
YANKS ADVANCE
ON LONG FRONT
Prepare to Storm Defenses Sur,
rounding Metz as Germans
Take Stand on New Line.
u. S, FLYERS RAKE FOE
Rulgarians Attacked on Macedonian
Front by French and Serbs-Brlt-
ish Draw Nearer to St. Quentin
Foe Retreats in Flanders,

With the Americans on the Metz
Front, Sept. 17.-The American po-
sitions on the eight-miIe front be-
tween Jaulny ION the Mad river) :
are improved, the Germans further
retreating in that region.
London, Sept. 17.-Allied troops are
N the offensive on the Macedonian
front. Reorganized Serbian forces,
aided by French units, are attacking
the Bulgarian positions in the noun
sains on the Serbo-Greek border east
Df Monastir.
Three important hill positions which
had withstood Allied efforts through
several years, already have fallen to
the Serbs and the French. The heights
r Sokol, Dobro Pole and Teak Vet
senik. Sokol is 20 miles east Of Mon
astir. The captured positions are
about midway between the Cerna and
Vardar rivers and command the up
GER cours of the Cerna after it makes
4 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 on. North of the
Aisne they have taken the town of
Vailly and nearer the Chemin des
Danes have stormed Mount des
5inges, 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 en- a front
9f two miles. West of Cambria and
around St. Quentin the activity has
HE'D down after the British capture
Of Maissemy.
u. S. 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-
a lines, but no infantry attacks have
developed. Allied aviators have bonn
Darded railroad centers and other mill
sar.y targets in the Metz area, while
angmy airmen have bombed some
places within the American lines, in
,sluding st. Mihiel.
Antense aerial activity marked the
American operations in Lorraine to-
lay. Allied airplanes dropped more
shan II tons of bombs on Courcelles,
Ehrange, Saarbrucken, Boulay, Bull,
Conf1ans and other points. The bombs
dropped on Contains were directed
against the railway yards, the center
sf the German communications in this
region The roads crossing the Mo-
seIls 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
rage, carried out numerous raids and
scored victories in several engage
nents. Attempts of German aviaters
TO cross the American line were I'M
successful generally.
Rustrians 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
.urch.
Austrian officers declare they were
not warned of the American attack
and that repeated requests for ammu
Hition were ignored. The Germans
shey add, gave their entire attention
70 extricating themselves from thu
salient.