The Mena weekly star., 1918-09-12
MARSHAL FOCH HAS 4 MIGHTY RESERVE
More Than I.6O0 900 Americans Had Embarked Up to August 31--Wide- spread Belief Exists That Big
 Blow Is Coming Soon.

Washington, Sept. 4.-Announce- ment today by Marshal March, chief of staff, that more than 1,600,0 American troops had been embarked for all fronts up to August 3l, fur nished a new measure of the forces Marshal Foch has at his disposal with which to follow up the victories all ready won on the Western front.
 Included in the American shipments are men sent to Italy and Siberia. The arrival of Major General Graves, American commander, at Vladiyostok, with nearly 1 1.400 men of the forces dispatched direct from the United States was announced today by Gen eral March. The total number of men sent elsewhere than to France, how ever, is less than 10000, leaving more than .500, 900 American troops avail rble in the great battle.
 Army officials here believe the ap- parent breakdown of the German de- fense on the Douai2Cambrai front may prove the entering wedge for sweeping allied successes, because the fact that General Pershing's army has not yet been largely employed is proof that Marshal Foch has ample reserves.
 German Resistance Overcome.
 In his midweek conference with newspaper correspondents, General March reviewed briefly the battle sit. uation of the last three or four days. He noted particularly that the Brit ish in the most impressive phase of the battle east of Arras have smashed their way across the Hindenburg line on an eight-mile front, with Cam brai as their objective. The chief enemy resistance along the whole 60- mile battle front from the Scarpe to the Disc, he said, has been encounter ed and overcome by the British and the salient advance of the French troops last week, when they gained five or six miles on 25-mile front in a single day, was due largely to with drawal forced upon the enemy in the north.
 General March said, in indicating the rapidity with which the battle front is shifting under the steady drive of the allied armies, that the British have pressed ahead IA miles since they launched their attack on August 21.
 Even as General March talked, word came that the Germans had been hurled still further back along the Douai-Cambrai line and indicating the British early today stood within five miles of the Cambrai pivot to this German defense position. Later re- ports, both from Flanders and on the Vesle, far to the south, indicated thai new retirements were in progress in both places.
 May Be Preparing Knockout.
 In all the dispatches from abroad officers here noted again today yelled indications that some new and im- portant phase of the battle is to be expected shortly. There was an air of expectancy among both unofficial and semi-official commentators which produced the impression that Marshal Foch is preparing new blow If this is true, it is believed here that the employment of General Pershing's army may we'll be included in the plans, the object being to hit with full force of the American and allied arm ies, now that the German disorgani- zation appears to be spreading and his line wavering
 Americans in Fighting
 General March identified the Amer ican unit which participated in the Flanders advance as the 30th Divis- ion, composed of troops from Tennes- see, North Carolina and South Caro- lima.
 The French advance north of Sois- sons, resulting in the capture of Ter ny-Serny, was participated in by the 32nd Division composed of Michigan and Wisconsin troops, under General Haan.
 In answer to question, General March said if was estimated that more than 250,000 troops had landed in France during August. The record for monthly shipments, he added, was 2S5, 900.
 The chief of staff said the seth Di- vision. composed of Texas and Okla homa troops, has completed it's de- barkation. The 35th Division, com posed of Missouri and Kansas troops, is stationed in the vosges.
 In this section, east of Arras, Gen eral March said, the British had crossed the so-called Hindenburg line on an eight-mile front. He added t at the maximum advance of the British since the drive started in Picardy and extended northward, was 14 miles.
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