Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-07
ST. ET|ENNE IS
TAKEN BY YANKS
IN F ACE Of FIRE
Americans Have Taken a To-
tai of 100 Prisoners, In
GLIDING 48 Officers and
Guns and Material.


With the American Army on the
Champagne Front. Oct 6--(By the
Associated Press The American
troops operating on the Champagne
front with the French again advanced
their lines today, They captured st.
Etienne and further acted as lever
age at the right of the Champagne
offensive, which resulted IN the with
drawal, of the German lines on
twenty eight-mile stretch.
The bulk of the work in the Amer
lean operations was done by a division
which is among the best known the
United States has in France and
which has invariably covered itself
with laurels All of it's advances
since the 'jump-off" on Wednesday
have been made not only in the face
of most tremendous opposition. but
against a frequent thanking fire on
both wings.
The advance today was easier than
that of the previous threedays be-
cause the terrain was far less en-
numbered with powerful enemy pill
boxes and concrete Notifications.
The TANKS of the Americans We're
better covered by troops who pressed
fast to prevent a dead enfilading fire.
This forward movement amounts to
between four and four and a half
miles from the starting point 1t aids
materially in completely freeing
Rheims from the German menace and
makes the enemy positions north of
Rhemis harder and harder to hold,
/ The Americans have captured up to
| this afternoon 100 prisoners, in
Guiding forty-eight officers. They
| took much material, many cannon
and machine guns, including seventy
five seized with more than zoo Ger
, mans in one set of nests.
AS the Americans advanced in this
center the Germans to the right and
| left of them refused to be dislodged
and resisted to the utmost The enc
my was able to pour a whitening en-
| filading fire upon the attacking
! forces which was only silenced today
when the line was completely sta
| blized. Before these enfilading diff
| ficulties were overcome, however
the Americans had pressed still far
Their forward from the heights which
they had gained and occupied posi-
tons facing ST. Etienne and Orfeuil
! Strong trenches outside of st. Etenne
/ again held them up. The French
! first entered the town by a thanking
attack, and simultaneously the Amer.
leans pushed up on the west side
The whole line from the extreme
right to left was in position to move
i ahead by noon today.
The ground across which the Amer
leans fought is remarkable for its
strength and the completeness OF
their victory was attested by mounds
and heaps of captured material.
The roads had been destroyed OF
I torn into great gaping holes ny mines
exploded by the retiring Germans
The fields for miles on either side OF
the main advance were shell marked
as few places in France have been sc
marked with craters which overlap
ped each other. Munition boxes
heaped to the size of houses attested
the haste of the German retreat. Yet
| in spite of all difficulties the Amerl-
cans advanced steadily and We're in
a good part responsible, so the French
! told them today, for being the fulcrum
of the lever under the German line
which tipped it up more than II
| kilometers at the western end.