Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-10
OUR Guns BLAST
STOLID GE RNANS.
FROM POSITIONS
MerCiIeSS Barrage Never Stops
as Foe Reluctantly Codes
Ground He Had Firmly Re-
solved Not to Abandon.
(By Lincoln Eyre.)
(Staff Correspondent of The Worldly
Copyright, 1918. by The Press Pub
(The New York World.)
(Special Gable Dispatchl

Especial Gable Dispatch)
With the American Army on the
Verdun Front, Oct 9.--For every
foot of progress toward the Kreimhild
line thousands and thousands of shells
must be rained upon the foe until our
artillery has shown to them the folly
of holding it, The Germans have no
mind to cede even the tiniest bit of
ground at the present stage of this all
important battle
Thus today. while our infantry
pushed forward several hundred yards
here and there between the Argonne
and the Meuse. it was the guns that
kept the center of the spotlight.
From Montfaucon hill. on the east
ern edge of the town. l was able to
see clearly despite the inevitable Lor-
raine haze and the blighting fury of
our bombardment, Behind and on all
sides of me were our batteries drum
ming away in frantic chorus Off on
the left a wavering curtain of smoke.
rising above Gesnes wood told of the
fearful strafine the German machine
gunners still lurking there were en-
during.
Our Barragc Never Stops.
Ahead the barrage bore uDon the
enemy at South ROMANCE with grim
ly relentless regularity. Glmpses of
our support battalions vending their
way forward could be obtained
through binoculars.
The German shells were unimpres-
sive either in numbers or in effect
A score fell IN Montfaucon while
was there, but not one Of dozens of
cannon that I passed was touched
and this despite the fact that the
enemy flyers showed exceptional
boldness.
| Fokkers were constantly overhead
Whenever one looked heavenward ono
saw white puffs of shrapnel tossed at
the boche airplanes by our antiair-
craft guns.
| Our progress was necessarily slower
! than in previous thrusts. for the foe
was defending his last prepared sys-
tenn of defense on the south frontier
with stubborn tenacity. He knows
that q hreakage in the Kreimhild
! line might mean irretrievable disaster
| for him in this region.
The tank corps played a supremely
! important, role in the mornings on
saught. Never have American in
! fantrymen operated in such complete
harmony in any undertaking with the
! grim, rolling tanks to which machine
guns are no more formidable than
| bean shooters The tanks started half
an hour behind the doughboys and
they had hard time to catch up
with the advance. but by noon they
were with or ahead of the front line
+, waves
! Tanks Take Heavy Toll.
! Only in Argonne forest were the
| tanks impotent, No attempt was
made to send them through that
dense jungle, which the Germans have
recently made even more difficult to
| penetrate by Telling great trees and
binding them together in huge
| punches with barb wire.
Immediately east of Argonne forest
the land ships took a heavy toll of
| Prussian guards. One guards battal-
ion was reduced to fifty men. A
guards division was so badly cut up
that its remnants We're hurriedly re-
moved from the battle front. Another
! guards division was also badly maui
ed, particularly by our guns The
| German losses during our lombard
ment, it is believed. were greater than