The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-09-17
St. Mihiel Salient Wiped Out
Great Results Expected

w Mhe salient the last German wedge Allied
France oberated the Americans Thursday and
terday Smashing overwhelming force,
General Pershng withdrawal of the German
such prcpous fashion that twelve thousand
behind prisoners hands, great quantities of supplies
munitions abandoned and the Huns had to
lay waste country as is their habit in
night battle continuing hercely along the
front which parallels the German border closely the Germans re-
sstng strongly while the American bataons crowd them closer
still being taken in large
streaming through the fighting ranks of the Amer
Among the prisoners taken several hundred
knowledge soldiers had that Austrians
the forces opposing them The number of counted last
night totaed hirteen thousand three hundred.
MANY EFFECTED ESCAPE
night Thursday with French and American tanks
Mhie and with American cavalry operating in the same region
question whether the Germans between the line OF the Amer
drives and the tip of the salient would be able them
Through sacrificing several thousand OF their
held earguard positions with machine until wiped out
by attempting destroy great quantities
plies the Germans managed with the greater number OF
their guns the Americans taking only sixty of these in the part
of the salient they have occupied.
FRENCH SMASH IN TIP
The French attack the of the salient
oonempoaneously against both sides
captured the town St. fort south of it,
taking prisoners and They found in entering
did the Americans throughout the greater part OF the
places had been damaged only slightly the usual
signs of vandalism being absent
important all it has been found that the enemy even
railroad the bridges the deep
being destroyed This railroad from Nancy
through uo the American and by OF Comncrcy
Vcdun The eoccupaton Of this line will prove (" great he
without the heretofore wide dctour between Nancy
Nerdun
All reports from France that the American blow has re
unqualified All oJcc\co gained and b'
puts the Germans the defense along their
border heretofore been marked by the blood
OF German ofenslVes.
ONLY BEGINNING OF BIG THINGS
believe that the elimination OF the salient only
the beginning OF bigger and be made the cornerstone
great encirclmg intended isolate Metz, which
the German line from the North Sea to SWH
crland.
the strategic Importance General rrshing victory Of
rrnoon territory the involved Not only
line reduced this front OF forty miles to
TWENTY great which has been found
along the defense OF \erdun be
elsewhere the obcraton Of the southern salient
removing the the city and fortress.
Dispatches that France thrilled by the
rceness victory the Americans their first indie
pendent
STILL RETREATING. SAYS PERSHING
General IershE reporting last night that the enemy
destroying the American
despatch fled having reached point twelve miles
OF Milcl The official makes
tiUno OF the quantities OF munitions taken.
The earlier report the American commander made shortly
that the line driving from the south
advanced eight miles front Of fourteen miles, the attack
progressing rapidly said that the drive had been
eopcd rapidly that they had had
inlr put resistance The American,
anncs although the had prepared defend
cnergccav
When th, report filed. fronts had APP
within miles OF each other and
hopes that the German divisions rIc>r to be
the section OF the salient would be cut off.
DESTROYED SOME MUNITIONS
Before retiring from auonvle and D'me>rc. the Germans
blew their ammunition Dumps
The report, south made
rapid progress than those attacking from the western