The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-05

Washington, Sept. 4.-Announce- ment today by General March chief of staff, that more than 1,G00O00 Amer ican troops had been embarked for all fronts up to August 31, furnished ! new measure of the forces Marshal Foch has at his disposal with which to follow up the victories already won on the western front.
 Included in the American shipments are ment sent to Italy and Siberia. the arrival of Major General Graves, American commander at Vladiyostok, with nearly 400 of the forces dis patched from the United States. hay ing been announced today by General March. The total number of men sent elsewhere than to France, however. is less than 10000. leaving more than I million and half American troops available for the use of the supreme commander in the great battle.
 The size of this American force be- comes increasingly important as tho scope of the new British assault at the
 
 front becomes appar- ont In the opinion of army officials heer the break down of the German defense lines on this front may prove the entering wedge for allied succes- ses of a sweeping nature since the fact that General Pershings army has not yet been largely employed is proof that Marshal Foch has ample reserves with which to press his advantage
 In his mid-week conference with newspaper correspondents General March reviewed briefly the battle sit nation of the last three or four days noting particularly that the British in the most impressive phase of the bat tie, east of Arras, had smashed their way across the Hindenburg line on an eight mile front with Cambrai a their objective. The major enemy resistance along the whole sixty mile battle fror, from the Scarpe to the Disc, he said. had been encountered and overcome by the British and the swift advance of the French troops last week VII, n they gained five or six miles on q twenty-five mile front in a single day was due largely to withdrawal forced upon the enemy in the north
 General March pointed out also, as indicating the rapidity with which the battle front is isnking under the heavy drye of the allied armies, that the British had pressed ahead II miles -since they launched their attack on August 2l,
 Even as General March talked word came from the battle front that the enemy had been hurled still further back along the Douai-Cambrai line and indicating the British early today stood within five miles of this Cam brai pvot to ths German defense po- stion. Later reports from the Elan ders front and on the Vesle far to the south indicated that new retirements were in progress in both places. In all the dispatches from abroad of ficers here noted again today, yelled indications that some new and i'm portant phase of the battle is to he expected shortly There was an air o expectancy among both official ans Isemi-ofllclal commentators Whicl produced the impression that Marsha Foch is preparing for a new blow | this is the case, it is believed here tha
 the employment of General PershinG'' army may we'll be included in the
 plans, the object being to hit with ful
 force of the American and allied ar
 mics now thtt the German disorgani-
 ration appears to be spreading and hi
 line wavering.
 The reports tonight indicated tt lmany observers that the enemy wa
 now withdrawing along his whole iron