The sun., 1918-09-15
$4,000 M0REU.S.
TROOPS LANDED
AT FRENCH PORT
Gen. March Announces Is
Ships Arrive in Day and
Will Return at Once.
HINTS FUTURE OFFENSIVE
Names Col. Drum and Other
Staff Officers Who Made st.
Mihiel Plans.
HINTS FUTURE OFFENSIVE
Special Despdfch to THE SuS.

Special Despdfch to The SuS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.-In his weekly
talk with the newspaper correspon-
dents to-day Gen. Peyton c. March,
Chief Of STAFF. hinted at a continued
offensive on the Lorraine front, de-
st. Mihiel salient furnished a better
base for future offensive operations"
Gen. March paid high tribute to the
work Of Gen. Pershing and his men In
reducing the st. Mihiel salient, using
these words:
This salient was cut of by the
American Army In less than two days,
parts Of Thursday and Friday, by
quick. sharp. blows on both fianks.
''On the south flank our troops aL-
vanced along a ten mile front between
Xivray and Fey en- Haye up through
the undulating plain Of the Woevre.
On the west flank on an eight mile
front they advanced across the heights
Of the Meuse. a ridge which is six
miles wide and broken by deep branch
ing ravines.
"By the evening of the first day the
south flank had been driven In five miles
and the north flank three miles. By
evening Of the second day Friday) the
salient had been wiped out"
In connection with later comment on
the high spirits characterizlng the
American forces, Gen. March said:
The qulckness and rapidity with
! which they handled the fight at St
Mihiel is attributed not only to the fine
staff work which brought It of. but the
individual soldier himself. 1t Is hot
stuff"
Rainbows Probably in Fight
Specific details have not yet been re-
ceived which permit announcement Of
. the particular American divisions en-
gagged in the st. Mihiel drive 1t is
hinted In unofficial reports from abroad
that the Forty-second (Rainbow) Divi-
| sion has again distinguished itself in
this fighting. but definite information
on this score Is lacking.
! 1t Is possible. however. to give the
{ names of American staff officers and
others who have handled the st. Mihiel
movement under Pershing's personal
command.
| These officers forming the staff OF tho
First American Field Army are Col
Hugh A. Drum. Chief of STAFF; Lieut.
Col. Jens Bugge, Lieut.-Col. Wiley
Howell. Col. Robert McCleave. Lieut.
Col. John l.. Dewitt. Lieut.-Col Lewis
II. Watkins. Major-Gen. Edward +. Nc
Glachlin. Chief OF Artillery; Col. Joseph
| F. Barnes. Adjutant General: Col. Jacob
| c. johnson. Inspector-General: Lieut.
Col. Blanton Winship, Judge-Advocate;
Major George Luborff. Chief Quarter
master: Col. Alexander n. Stark. Chief
Surgeon: Brig Gen. J. J. Morrow. Ch.es
Engineer: Lieut-Col. Parker Hit. Chief
Signal Officer; Col Edward P. O'Hern.
! Chief Ordnance Oflcer: Col. William II
Winters, Chief OF Motor Transport
Corps; Col. William Mitchell. Chief OF
Air Service.
As these officers are all identified with
the ST. Mihiel drive credit goes out to
each and every one OF them. The names
of fighting units and other details Will
be made known later on.
War Plans Moving at High Speed
I'm connection with the military pro-
gramme." Gen. March said. there has
appeared in the public press an intima-
tion that there Is some talk that America
isn't going through with this war. That
OF course is preposterous In its falsity
at time when we are asking the Con.
gress to give US an increase in the age
limit which will carry every available
man over there and upon the point OF
asking for more than seven billion
dollars more for the military programme
this year. And with everything moving
at the highest speed 1t is inconceivab bic
that any such propaganda can be con
sdered seriously by anybody. America
Is going through with It,
THE increased programme calls FOL
Increased effort in France. increased por
facilities, &c, and ! have here a cable
gram which indicates the way thing
are going over there In that respect:
"'This afternoon $4,000 men cam,
ashore at one Of our base ports ant
II 900 more will be Off before noon to
morrow. Fifteen ships came in at /,
o'clock this morning. out of which twelv,
were unloaded and will be ready to re
turn tomorrow before noon
"The system Is 30 well organized tha
those great masses Of troops are han
died and the ships returned In this yer,
! short time"