Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-11-01
US. SAILORS SHELL
BIG HUN RAILWAY
SUPPLY CEN7ERS
Americans Turn Naval Guns
Against the Germans.
WOODS CAPTURED BY YANKS
Allies Gain on Wide Front, Take Sew
eraI Towns and Capture Ten Thou
sand Germans-Yankees Aid
Haig's Men.

manned by American DlueJachetS GU
operating with the French began firing
upon German railroad centers back CT
the Serre-Oise front. The Americans
directed their shells against railroad
supply stations and functions in the
region of Vervins and also in the VI
cinity of ROzoy.
Use Most Powerful Guns of War.
Washington, Oct. 26.-Announce-
ment from France that American IT,
inch naval guns, manned by naval gun
crews, have come into action with the
American army at the front, disclosed
that through efforts of the ordnance
officials of the navy, General Per-
shing's forces are now equipped with
the most powerful and hardest-hlt-
ting weapons yet used In the pres
ent war, ashore or afioat, as far as is
known.
The 16-inch rifles are similar to
those designed for use aboard the new
est American dreadnaughts. They are
80 caliber, more than &c feet in length
and weigh approximately 100 tons
without their carriages.
Without question they are the long
est-range guns in use except the Ger
man super guns, which are regarded
merely as a mechanical freak.
The projectile weighs close to ton
and it's bursting charge of the most
powerful explosive known is measured
in hundreds of pounds against the few
pounds in the German Supergun SHELL
The destructive effect is enormous.
Plans for using big rifles for the
army are understood to have been
worked out entirely by naval officers.
The theory that their weight would
not permit their use except in t1Xed
concrete and steel emplacementS fur
nshed the chief obstacles to be over
come.
These are not the only great naval
guns employed by the American army.
Military experts say that the man
ner in which these great engines OF
war have spread death and destruc-
ton among the retreating enemy ever
since September IS proved dOminat-
ing factor in bringing to the German
general staff the realization that no
modern defensive system, either in
Belgium or on the Rhine, could with
stand the new weapons which Amerl-
can ingenuity had devised, forged and
placed In action on the western front.
Up to this time all particulars or
the new mobile naval guns. for hand
use have been jealousy guarded by
the navy department. That the navy
had devised a weapon rivaling the
German guns which shelled Paris was
limited at last April, when Samuel Nj.
Vanclpin, general manager of the Bald
win Locomotive works, announced
that the first of Americas greatest
"siege guns had left the Baldwin
shops for proving tests" For the
present the navy department refuses
to permit publication of the exact cal
iber and power of the new guns.
Foe Makes Despairing Effort.
Paris, Oct. 26-The fighting along
the American front on both sides of
the Mouse is particularly fierce. The
Germans appear to be making a des-
pairing effort to hold their positions
fin this vital sector. Information re-
ceived here gives the impression that
they cannot resist much longer in their
present positions.
Pershina's Troops Take Woods.
With the American Army Northwest
of Verdun, Oct. 26.-In q local attack
east of the Mouse the Americans adj
vanced about one kilometer on a three
lxilometer front and the Bots Bultruy,
the Bots de Houppy and the Bots de
Belleu are within the American lines,
rs also is q part of the Bots de Wav-
rifle and Plyon de Traye.
The advance was made after brief
artillery preparation. The enemy's re-
sponse was principally with machine
guns, but during the fighting he shelled
the back areas and threw a few six
inchers into Verdun.
Americans Aid British.
London, Oct. 26.-The British, aid
ed by Americans, have crossed the
-Avesnes railway, the re-
mort from Field Marshal Haig shows.
They have captured Sepmeries village,
which lies just east of that important
line. Querenaing. west of the rail-
way. also was taken.
Ten thousand prisoners and 100
Guns have been counted so far, as the
bag of three days of forward pushing.
A seven-mile stretch of the Valen-
eienAes-Avesnes railway is in British
hands. from LIE Quesny TO the east OF
Main.
Northwest of Valenciennes the
British captured Bruille-St. Armand
and Burdion.