Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-03
All Records Broken During
July For Shipment of Men
to France; 100000 Arrivals
Brings Army Total Up to
100000
FIRST CORPS ENGAGED
IN HEAVY BATTLING
Eight Divisions, Including the
Keystone, Are Active in the
Drive Which Is Forcing the
Great Hun Army Out of
Marine Salient
BY Associated Press

Washington, Aug. 3.-Major Gen.
eral Hunter Liggett, commanding the
First American Army Corps, is in ac-
tive charge of that corps on the CEN
ter of the allied drive in the Aisne-
Marne salient, General March, chief
of-staff, to-day told newspaper cor
respondents at the semi-weekly con-
ference at the War Department.
The American divisions forming
this corps are serving continuously
on this sector, the control of which
is in the hands of Major General
| Liggett, as commander of the first
major American unit to get into ac-t
tion in France.
100000 During July
General Pershing, as a result of
recent transfers of American divi-
sions which had been brigaded with
the British now has one million men
| under his direct command, the chief
of-staff stated.
Total embarkation of American
troops during July broke all records,
it was announced officially, more
than 100000 men having been ship
ped.
The number of American divisions
actively engaged on this sector has
been increased to eight. now includ-
ing First, Second, Third and Fourth
Regulars and the 26th. 2Sth, Key
stone, 32d and 42d National Guard.
General March announced that it was
the 42d Division which met and de-
feated the Prussian Guards during
the present week.
Huns Falling Back
The grand total embarked to the
end Of IDlV has CGpd tho 1 am nm
mark. The previous high monthly
I record was for June, when 276,000i
men were sent overseas.
Discussing the fighting, General
March said official dispatches cover
ing the battles to August 2 showed
the present front running virtually
parallel to the Vesle and Ardre val
leys, the next defensive line of the
enemy. Later dispatches, however,
have indicated the Vesle- -Ardre line
may have been turned already.
The objective of the American and
allied armies still is the destruction
of the enemy's army. General March
said. The maximum retreat of the
enemy up to August measured six
teen miles, the total length of the
Aisne- Marine salient having been re-
duced from "A miles to 4S miles.
Enemy COIlapses
The French and British pounding at
both fianks of the salient, General
March said. had resulted in the coll
lapse of the German resistance on
August l and the French had walked
into Scissors.
The advance in the center has
averaged three miles on a front of 30
miles the chief of staff said. while
on the east flank. west of Rheims,
an advance of four miles on a four
mile front already had been made
The complete success of the allies
is indicated by confidential message
reaching the chief of staff from an
officer who at the time of writing had
just returned from Fere-en-Tarde-
nois. This officer reported it was
seemingly impossible" for any army
to gather the number of guns and
shells that were abandoned by the
Germans in their retirement
The message added that. the Ger
mans had been driven back without
| time to bury their dead and the Ger
man bodies lay so thickly it was i'm
possible to advance without walking
over them.
No Casualty Lists
General March said the war de-
partment still was without any in
formation as to the number of Ameri-
can casualties in the fighting since
the present battle began.
The selection of Major General
Jesse Mel. Carter. now serving as
chief of the militia bureau. and COM
mander of the United States guard. 10
head one of the new divisions to be
formed in this country, was on
nounced.
General March announced also the
names of Brigadier Generals who
bad e /
duty in this country. They are
James J. Holbrook. who goes to the
Southern department.: Charles w.
Kutz. to command the engineering
camp at Camp Humphreys; Douglas |
Macarthur. to command the Twenty
first brigade of the Eleventh division
at Camp Meade Maryland; Howard I
r. Hickok, to command a brigade in
the Tenth division at Camp Funston,
Kas.. and Cornelius Vanderbilt, to
command a brigade at Camp Lewis.
Wash. aftsi