The Dolores star., 1918-09-20
YANKEES WIPE OUT ST. MIHiEL
SALIENT AND PUSH FOR
WARD TOWARD METZ.
10000 BOCAES BAGGEO
SECRETARY OF WAR BAKER WIT
MESSED BEGINNING OF Of
FENsivE BY YANks.
Western Newspaper Union Net, Service.

quentin, together with the trench sys-
tenn TO the southeast and east of that
place, Field Marshal Haix makes this
announcement in his night report.
Paris.-"South OF the c.se," saws the
war office announcement Sunday
night. I'VE maintained .,ur positions
against violent counter attacks, We
captured the plateau east of Vauxail.
lon and the crest northeast of Celles-
sur-Aisne. The prisoners taken by us
since Saturday morning exceed $500"
London.-Gen. Pershing's army, &C.
cording to Sunday afternoons news,
Is making fine progress. Since Sat
urday afternoon it has advanced from
two to three miles on a thirty-three-
mile front, and the fortress guns Of
Metz have come into action against t..
Powerful air attacks are being con-
tinued around Metz. according to the
statement issued by the air ministry
Sunday night. The stations and
tracks at Metz-Sablons and Courcelles
have been attacked. as well as various
enemy concentration points.
The American line at noon Sunday
ran through Norroy, on the Moselle !;
Haumont, Doncourt and to Abaucourt,
on the old line.
The process of cleaning up the St.
Mihiel salient was continued by Gen.
Pershing's troops. who SO far are re.
ported to have effected the capture Of
more than 10000 Germans as the re-
suit OF the clean-cut drive of the
American First army.
Further progress was made by the
British in the region northwest of st.
Quentin. the London war office an
nounced.
General Pershing's announcement
that the Americans advancing on the
two sides of the st. Mihiel salient had
been able to form a juncture in TWEEN
ty-seven hours after they went over
the top. occasioned no surprise among
army officers. -
With the American Army in Lor-
raine, Sept. 1.-THE st. Mihiel sal
lent has been wiped out The line
now extends past Norroy. Jaulny.
Xammes, st. Benoit. Nationwide. Han
nonville and Herbeville.
With the American Army in Lor-
raine.-The allied offensive on the
western front for the first time is
dominatingly American, the French
cooperating. and in a military sense it
is regarded as continuing phase of
thu hottlo which houop lost su,pp,or
Newton d. Baker, the American Sec
rotary Of war, with several other no.
tables. witnessed the beginning of the
battle from a French fort close be-
hind the middle of the line.
Paris.-The Americans were pro-
crossing steadily throughout Friday
afternoon in the st. Mihiel sector The
field OF operation could not have
been better chosen from the French
point of view, for the northern part OF
the Woevre is extraordinarily rich in
iron. It is the celebrated basin OF
Briey. on which the Germans put their
hand in the first days of the war,
which is one of the essential resources
of her munition factories.
The American First army has car
ried out the initial task assigned to it
the leveiing of the famous st. MihieI
salient In Lorraine. In little more
than twenty-four hours not only had
the task been accomplished, but Gen
eral Pershings men had all the i'm
portant towns. villages. and strategic
positions. in. the sector within their
hands, and were standing on the
banks Of the Moselle river at Pagny,
looking across the stream into German
territory. And the southern outer for
tffications Of Metz, the great German
stronghold In Lorraine, were only four
miles distant .-.-
Large numbers Of Germans had
been taken prisoner-more than r..
900 had been counted and others stfli
on their way back othe prisoners
cages. and many guns and machine
guns and great quantities OF ammuni-
ton and other war stores were In
American hands.
London.-A troop ship with $500
American soldiers on board has been
torpedoed. All hands were saved The
troop ship was beached.