Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-22
One and Three Quarter Mil
lion Americans Have Now
Left United States Ports
For Various Battle Fronts,
HALF AS MANY YANkS
AS WESTERN HUN ARMY
Offensive Power Of TeutoniC
Host DecSiyeIy Broken BY
Arrival of Americans and
FoCh'S Hammer Blows,
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Washington. Sept. 2t.--StrikinG
proof that the German power is fast
crumbling came today in the an.
nouncement by General March, CHIEF
Of staff, that the news from all bat
tie fronts was continuously good"
and that 1.750,O00 American troops
now have been embarked for over
seas service.
Just six months ago today the
enemy flung his full military power
against the British lines in Picar6y
In the great drive that was to end
the war in smashing victory. Today
he was fighting desperately to hold
the tottering Hindenburg line. the
defensive system from which he
struck that blow and back into
which he has been hurled Side by
side, British, French and American
armies have broken definitely the
/ German offensive power in official
! opinion here. Already the American
! forces in France are more than hals
| as strong as the whole German army
and the tide of American fighting
men toward France is continuing at
an even pace. The situation on the
various battle fronts was terseis
|
as follows:
News during the week has been
| from all fronts continually and cons
| tinuously good. On the western
| front our new line In Lorraine was
quickly stabilized. The enemy has
been hurrledly strengthening his linS
! OF defense, the so-called FSriemhild
| limo which lies only a mile or two
| in front OF our new line on a front
of about twenty miles from near
Maizeray to the Moselle river at Van.
dires We are now ten miles away
| from Conflans and twelve miles
away from Metz.
10000 Prisoners Taken.
I'm Picardy the British and
French renewed their advance on
the Cambrai-St. Quentin front to-
wards the old Hindenburg line. In
spite of the concentration of the
enemy forces defending this sector
they have made steady progress and
the enemy is reported to have lost
very heavily 1t is now officially
confirmed that 10000 prisoners have
been captured. Il
"On the plateau northeast OF
scissors the French have continued
to force back the enemy's best
troops until they are now within half
q mile from the junction of the Mau-
merge road and the Chemin des
Damse, and within ten miles OF
Laon, which lis being shelled.
The reports in the press about
the successful operations of the Ser.
blan army on the Balkan front ara I
correct The Serbian army attacked
the Bulsarians on a front of twenty
rive miles and drove them back
ABOUT twenty miles. According to Of
ficial reports British have re-opened
activities in Palestine"
The western battle wall has been
rebuilt by the allied and American
Iorce according to observers here.
When the first American army
swiftly trampled out the st. Mihiel
salient, the last possibility of a Ger
man strategic stroke passed. The
enemy races now straight line
from the North Sea to the Swiss bIr-
uer' Ihere are no salients to give
opportunity for flank Operations
Even If the power for a counter Of
fensive should be found-and military
authorities see no chance of that.
the German high command would
uace the costly business of frontal
attack. They have nothing, IL iy
pointed out. not a single strategic
position TO show for their great drive.
but It Is more than a restored or
Ienslve line that faces them. officer.
say Along the center of the great
sweep at the front, British and
french armies are storming ahead
hight and day, harrying and harassing
ing the battered German divisions
without rest. Pershlngs men stand
oelore Metz and Conflans and against
that new threat the enemy must gaths
reserves at the very time when everv
available reserve division is sorely
needed to meet the allied rush to the
north Signs Of further withdrawal
are manifest along wide sectors OF
the German front
German Units Reduced.
In payment for their lavish expeu~
diture of lives in the abortive offep-
sive, the German leaders have been
compelled by formal decree TO reduce
the fighting strength of every infan-
try unit. Instead of $50 men in each
battalion, there are now only $50 un-
der the revised organization. In no
other way could the drain be met. To
military observers, this means that
every German battalion or company
must face an allied or American unit
OF the same type that Is at least Is per
cent stronger in fighting men.
There appears good reason TO be-
lieve that the German losses in pris-
oners alone since the tide turned
against them in July would reach well
up toward 100000. The losses in guns
and other material have not been
With this steadily increasing supe-
riority in both man power and war
at his command. military au-
thoritles here feel that perhaps tho
most striking asset Marshal Foch has
acquired in his two months of swift
and victorious counter-blows is the