The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-10-19
100000 MEN NOW
With PERSHINC
Strength Of Overseas Army
Announced by Chief.of.
Staff March.
ALLIES REACH HOLLAND
Over Eight Hundred Square
Miles Evacuated in Four
Days by Enemy.

Washington. Oct. 19.-More than 2.-
100000 American soldiers now have
gone overseas. Gen. March told tho
members of the senate military COM
mittee today at their war department
conference. While tho conference was
In progress Gen. March was notified
that the Germans had evacuated the
entire Belgian coast up to the Holland
boundary and that 1t is now In possess
sion OF the allies.
Now Opposite Bruues.
British patrols participating in the
allied advance In Belgium are reported
to have reached the Holland frontier
opposite Bruges, Gen. March was in
formed, The German retirement from
the Belgian coast district. Gen. March
added, Is increasing in breadth and
speed. The movement to the rear, on
tho whole. Gen. March added, Is ex-
tremely rapid. as illustrated by the
fact that the territory evacuated in
four days totals more than 500 square
miles.
TO the south. In France, the general
said, renewed attacks by Anglo Amer
ican forces opposite Douai have car
ried the allied line up to the hastily
constructed German defense system,
which follows. In a general way, the
Sensee canal and marshes. No at
tempt to cross this barrier has yet been
reported.
Hindsnburg Line Passed.
The Hindenburg defense system Is
now entirely behind the allied advance,
and Marshal Foch Is continuing his
pressure without giving the enemy the
slightest opportunity for rest.
Gen. March did not attempt today to
uit it.,n til,. H.
western front as whole or to point
out objectives of the various attacks.
He called attention to the fact that
the German retirement. starting last
week on sixty-mile sector between
the oise and the Argonne, had spread
during the week until 1t affected all
except fifteen miles of the 25O-mile
front from the coast to the Meusc.
While this retirement was in progress,
no said. the American army northwest
or Verdun was fighting its way for
ward against stiff resistance. The
Twenty ninth division New Jersey.
Delaware. Virginia, Maryland and Dis
trict Of Columbia troops) was identi-
fied as one Of those operating east of
! ~ ~ a' as2sfs Tsss S'getx; asfs fA.ahi;
as a depot division on the line OF DOM
while the Eighty-fourth
(ketucky, Indiana and southern Illi-
nois) Is reported as having lust ar
rived In France. The Thirty eighth di-
vision Indiana. Kentucky and West
has not yet arrived over
seas.
To Gable Lists Of Dead.
from now on all lists of dead and
will be cabled at once and
made public Immediately after the rel
ntives are notified. All other casual
Ties Will be rushed here by courier and
also VIII be made public.
kilograms notifying relatives will be
followed up with letters giving all pos
siie details of wounds, ETC. Then ad-
1itional letters will be sent by the Red
Cross workers, who are to aid the de-
partment In keeping relatives informed
Or the exact nature of all casualties.
etc. Letters from wounded soldiers to
relatives will also be expedited in every
way possible.
Gen. Billiards Command.
Gen. March was not yet ready to dis
close the units of the second field army.
which Is commanded by Mai Gen.
robert i. Bullard and Is now in action
igainst the retreating Germans.
The general Said that the 29th di-
Vision is in action east of the Meuse
IND ne had no reports on tho 10th, SOth
md seth divisions Mt present. The S5th
iiVision Is on the lines OF communica.
ion, he said.