Albuquerque morning journal., 1918-09-26
1t Was the Most Successful
and Lowest Priced Offensive,
Of the Allies Since the
Marne, Says World Man.
SIGNAL CORPS COMES IN
FOR HIGHEST PRAISE
Most Powerful Air Force Ever
Assembled Is Reported as
Contributing Greatly TO the
American Success.
BY LINCOLN EYRE.


n Copyright 1913. by The Press Pub
IL fishing Company
(New York World Albuquerdne Journal
Ii Special cable servce.1
IL With the American Army in Lor-
ratne, Sept 2j.--In the first week
II of its existence as a self-sustainng
tactical units General Pershing $
N first army has achieved the most COM
III prehensible measure Of success ever
= vouchsafea a force of like strength in
the war.
' The operation which this army has
brought TO 50 triumphant a oonclu-
sion, was limited in scope and was
by no means one Of the most i'm
portant staged on the western front,
II but it may be said fairly to be the
most successful and least costly of
L fensive launched by the allies since
the Battle Of the Marne, for 1t ac-
ID complished more than had been in
HI tended. with extraordinary raDidity
and at an absurdly low price.
~ For that reason alone l deem it
worth while to dwell upon the re-
suits obtained by Gen. Pershngs
boys in the days following the dawn
of September II. In the last forty
eight hours ] have interviewed some
'.i''' two score of competent authorities to
get the recital of achievements below
which are far from complete. All the
figures are official and all underesti-
mate rather than eXaggerate what has
G,tbeen done in the last week
What We Took From the Foe.
Among the other things our drive
-~--1 took from the enemy, 152 square
miles of French soil, seventy-five viii
.',e, lages. domination by artillery over
TWO important railroads, a canal and
-, river l5,l1s German soldiers includ-
ing 236 officers (ths total of prison
~. ers is not completely; III guns, forty
as, two trench moTtars, more than 260
machine guns, thirteen motor trucks,
Including an ambulance; thirty box
ne cars, four locomotives five caissons,
ouaf thirty-siX narrow-gauge railway cars
hgB and four large ammunition dumps in
rirea addition TO q dozen blown up by our'
preparation fire.
The enormous stocks of munitions
,.. captured in the dumps have~not yet
.lN@ been counted, but at one point alone
f~.r 5000 shells of 17-mllimetre calibre,
i- 10000 hand Erenades lnd $4,000
,NHh pounds of ammunition for small arms
came into our possession, The cap
tured guns include twenty five heavy
howitZers and seventy-eight IT'S of
manufacture, which are the
best field pieces the Germans have
We found enough gray-green uni
forms to cothe a German army
nos corps. including boots. our boys are
still feasting on stores Of food the
nc foe left behind, and our officers are
carrying on conversations by tele-
- rhone over wires made in Germany
J End strung by our signal corps after
e abandonment by the former owners
eA9 I'm one dump we got 500 miles of
'~ enemy wire, besides a truck fitted as
radio station and a good number Of
sy telegraph instruments.
r Fine Work Of the Signal Corps.
1t is only fair that the signal corps
should benefit by this hooty. because
IL played an important role in prepar-
ing the victory. Wire arrangements
that assured gTeaEs of communication
among the numerous fighting services
were equivalent TO those existing in
tlte serage American city of 100, 900
/ = population
More than 5000 miles of wire were
laid by our forces behind the st
Mihiel front knitting together some
COCO telephones. About 5000 men
were kept continuously busy seeing
TO II that the system funeuoned
smoothly throughout the battle. To
moment the infantry began stride
ahead, the wire followed on the heels