The Washington herald., 1918-11-10
BERLIN LAST CITY ENVELOPED
BY RED HAND OF REBELLION:
CROWNPRLNCEG GETS UI TLNATLLNl
ALLIES REGAIN
MANY MILES
Enemy Driven More Than
100 Miles from Paris,
Says Gen. March.

washington, Nov. 9-The COM
oIhed attacks of the allies and the
americans since July IS have re-
covered $500 square miles of terri
tory out of the 10000 square miles
held then by the Germans in
france, and have driven back the
enemy from a position of thirty
SIX miles from Paris to a distance
OF more than a hundred miles.
Ihese were the important fea-
lures of Gen. March's conference
with the press to-day.
Battle Hero Present.
While Gen. March was giving his
terNie" there was at the depart
Hen. omar l.. Bundy, the hero
oI o the splendid fighting at and around
Chateau Thierry. in which the Ma
rlnes participated Summarizing re-
suits since July Is. Gen. March said;
The advance of our First Ameri-
can army to Sedan covered more than
thirty miles in eight days. Since JuIy
70 --the retirement OF the enemy hos
increased the distance , between his
line and Paris from thirty-six miles
10 more than 100 miles. On July, 1S
the enemy occupied approximately
1000 square miles of French terri
tory He now holds less than 200
square miles"
Enemy Movements Impossible.
Describing the actual positiop of
the German armies north and west
or Sedan to the north, where contact
Is made with the British. Gen. March
showed that the British army has
forced the enemy back to the high
lands of Ardennes at Maubeuge. on
the south the American army. with
Gen. GOuraud's French Fourth army,
mas driven him northward to Sedan
and MazierS. The result OF this Is
that the Germans have lost the line
of railways from Sedan to Maubeuge
and have now no line parallel with
their front. The Germans can. there
fore, only feed and supply their
armies in the field from Sedan to
Maubeuge with short lines radiating
toward the old main line, and cannot
move troops from the north to the
south. Their predicament is therefore
hopeless from the strategic point of
view.
False Report Hurts Program.
Gen. March took occasion today to
comment adversely on the publica-
ton by a press association of a state
ment that the armistice had been
signed.
He said: In connection with the
question of armistice. generally, the
erroneous announcement of an ar
mistice which has been interesting the
American public and the newspaper
world is i very bad thing for the
military program. For instance. in
New York stcvedores who were work
ing on ships, sending supplies abroad
to our trrUps. stopped work % join
the general celebration and many did
not return the next day. Our army
must have supplies no matte" what
happens. The army will be in France.
even II peace is declared, for some
time and cannot be brought back cX-
cept with the use of a great amount
of shipping. 1t will require time in
any event and of course supplies haN-
to be sent them just the same. Any
public announcement like the one
mentioned. unconfirmed makes the
military program essentially more dit
ficult.
Gen. March declined to state IN The
event of the signing of the armIstice
what would be done with the men
now in camps or cantonmen-s or
whether any more men would be sent
overseas. Gen. March said: All
this will he announced in War De-
partment oruers at the proper time"
Gen. March announced that the
Thirty seventh Division. under Maj.
Gen. c. S. Farnsworth, and the Nine
ty-first Division, under w. H. Iohh-
SOM are fighting with the British m
Belgium.