The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-15
Americans Beat
off Counter Drive
Take Many Prisoners and Capture
Seventy-six Cannons In Faye
en-Haye-

Take Many anu Gapture
Seventy-six Cannons In Faye
en-Haye.
With the First American Army,
Sept. f4.-Alrcady we arc Begin
ming t o reap the fruits OF our vic
tortous onslaught OF Thursday and
Friday. which wiped ont the st.
Mihiel salient.
The suddenness and ssyiftness
OF our blow knocked the Germans
clear of their feet and they are
still Keeling backward. They are
retreating hate today along the
whole twenty-mile front. which
three days ago formed h mouth
of the salient. LudendorT in his
coYnmuniQue yesterday spoke of
prepared ines and htntci at a
stand. But at this cabling all signs
point I a sustained German with
drawal- II II continues the siiua-
tton win shortly be transformed
from a German wedge In 1.-The
Woevre into an American wedge
in German-IoTraine, with its nose
pointing menActngiy at IN great
fortress Of Metx, from which our
ifncs ae one point are less than ten
miles away.
NJ man can fore tell what the next
few days or w~eks win bring forth in
this sector which was turned over
night from the Quietest on the whole
west front into the center of the
Universe" No man can even guess at
what will happen Persfing and
Foch alone know.
Fact Ia that AMERICAS army having
tasted triumph. aches for more action.
The dough boys keep singing Where
do we go from here?
Fact Also is that all along the north
eastern tip OF the Verdun front above
the Coses De Lorraine to the German
border at Pagny-Sur-M oselle,
the sky Ia red with the reflection of
huge fires IN the German zone faced
by our forces Our aerial observers
report h a all the main roads lead
ing toward Metz and Diedenhofen are
chuck full OF columns of troops and
transports. The roads passing through
Jarny. Mar Ia Tour. Charnbley and
Etain are swarming with soldiers
carts. trucks and guns manifestly on
the rearward move
From Chambley 1.-TWO and three
quarter miles north Of the line reached
by h Americans yesterday and two
n a half miles west Of the German
frontfsr), and from Mars la Tour the
Germans r reported Withdrawing to
Arnanvflkns ION the border about six
northwest of the outer forts OF
Metz). From Harville northwest of
Chambhey), they appear to be draw
ing hack to CONTAINS en- Jarnisy. the
important "a 20 often bombed by
our own n allied flyers IN the past
months.
This would Indicate a German In
tentton no draw a straight front along
Etafn~ virIers sectpr Of the
Verdun-Metx railway and from Aman-
vtlhe1s along the border to Pagny. a
dangerouM rectangular front. dan
ferrous tn Germans
Possibly the Wuertemmhurg Duke
who is in command of tho
southern portion of the German
front In the west. sees a necessity Of
h strip of Lorraine ter
ritory west OF the Moselle, between
that river and The verdun-Metx rail.
In n zone where the new German
Withdrawal Is reported today some OF
the norcest battles of the Franco
PruEian war were fought In it lie
places Hike Mars la Tour, Vkenville and
MAlmfSon. an household words in
Germany ever since 1S7o-71. One. OF
the first things every German child
learns In school is the story of the
battles At these places. with poems
fun Of glory and hurels to make tho