Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-04
AMERICAN ATTACK
RESULTS IN FLIGHT
General Hunter Liggett's Men
Drive Enemy Along
the Argonne.
TO PARALYZE RAILROADS
That Is Objective of Men Who
Drove Germans Over
the Marne.
TO PARALYZE RAILROADS

WASHINGTON. November s-The
impetuous attack OF the First Amer
! ican Army along the .trSonne has pro-
ouGed rout and indiscriminatc figlf.
OF tue German armies opposing It. ac-
'oroins TO the analysis of army cN-
perts on the days news from abroad
ms army is commanded by Lieutcn-
ant-GeEeFal Hunter Liggett, who IS
leading with rc-enforcing divisions the
same American forces that fought at
Chatcau-Thierry and drove the Ger
mans back over the Marine, near Der
mans. when they were just about 10
, move south Of Rheims and cut X off
| from Paris.
IN the prcscn; great drive the French
ain ,,i;1, a Americans are acting together. bu;
win separate armies, each performing
! part ot "A inomcntous design OF Cen
/ eral Foch. The success of this drive
rallWaE lines into conquered territory
through Sedan means the loss for Ger
many without much hloodshed on the
part OF the allies. OF Metz, and the
military blanketing and masking OF
al! her forces in Alsace and Lorraine.
Inc drive so far has been the hardest
efforts since the British advance against
Lille. The Germans. when they began
failing back systematically before Haig.
concentrated their last reserves and
and French ct aud near the -Argonne
~ was stated Yesterday by General
reason neasurably slow, but the new
drive has had the effect Of producing
the same demoralization among the
Germans in this section as that Which
was daily occurrence in their retreat
before Ifais.
GERMANS MOVING our
WITHOUT THEIR BAGGAGE
To-days news indicates that the Ger
u Il.
OF their going, but are going at once
and without their artillery and bag
gage.
Under these circumstances, the staff
here Is not concerning itself with dts
cuss!ons o. an armistice. Their talk
to-day related solel! 10 the irretriev-
Inc west front and on her east front.
They point out that the terms of the
armistice pleaded, for By. Austria will
nghtinG Oh all fronts. There is no
accurate estimate OF the number Of
aus{rians Az now With, the German army
Der may be. however. they are now
getting instructions probably TO come
home, or at least to obey only the
proper. -
In this relation army men comment
on the news to the, effect that the
in the Argornc drive are throwing
down their arms. II is an oven chance
cNperts say, that this is just as muc!
due 10 the fact that they have orders
Nrc badly beaten.
As on" officer put it to-day. only a
nation of lunatics would consider stag
gerinE for moment longer under the
load that is now depressing Germany
Her plight simply is that the Austrians
!nuat leave her: she must be invaded
being beaten back to Sedan and beyond
by the Americans: he is being forced
back daily by Haig: the French army
and the American Second Army under
the l:hinc III the center of the line
from Grand Pre- to the sea, and her
railways by which she got supplies via
Bulgaria and Turkey are cut with
the certainty of n winter OF starvation
II She "l..ys false in the matte, OF the
arm isticc.
LoNG-RANGE SEA GUNS
TO TEAR GERMAN EMPIRE
Il i observed here to-day that Ger
maaT must know tha, if she shows
she is guilty Of Punic faith, the win
ter viii not give her any rest. The
,ircraft constructi3n Of the United
IL Il possibility tha. she can be at
'acked' even during the most rigorous
w!ntcs day: as far as kiel, and that
there no~ is practically no limit TO
plane routes
In addition, Germany appears still
70 be unaware that the United States
Navy has given the allies the most
rowerfu' ami longest range siege guns
ia tho world for attack on the Rhine
cities. T.Ioa" guns do not fire a shell
% Il reduced caliber SO as to increase
Nc rangc. The shell is measured by
tn full caliber OF the gun.
Ii Germany realizes this. as she must
do now, with her armies lying north,
ceu.cr and south, army men think the
rrescn: Will only complete the grea;
even-S of the past week AMI secure
the pra1c Wy victory which has been
IN sight since the Germans We're driven
~. u III Lon In. 1i,l,. L.