New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-11-08
SEDAN UNDER FIRE
OF AMERICAN GUNS
Pershing's Men Have Taken
Last German Stronghold
West of Meuse.
BRITISH TAKE 10000 HUNS
Enemy Positions on 3o-MiIe Front
Captured by Haio's Men-Stenay
Retreat Gap Closed.

With the American Army on the Sc
dan Front, Nov. Sin the face o.
stubborn opposition the Americans
took and held firmly the wooded
heights south of Beaumont, the last
German stronghold west of the Mouse
The advance carried the lines for
ward for an average gain of five kilo
meters.
The forces on the heights are now
about seven and One-half miles from
Carignan on the Mezieres-Metz rail
road and about nine miles from Sc.
dan. bringing both places within range
Of the Allied shell fire.
The days work may be said to have
been complete. 1t was the principal
phase of the American operation since
the neck of the German lateral COM
m%unications between the armies to
the north and west was narrowed to
the strangling point.
British in Big Gain.
London. Nov. 5.-Breaking deeply
into the enemy positions along a 30
mile front today, the British captured
more than ten thousand prisoners and
two hundred guns, Field Marshal
Haig reported tonight.
Close Stenay Retreat Gap.
With the French in France. No. S.
The operation which the Franco
American forces are engaged in carry
ing out north of the Argonne forest
now has resulted in definitely closing
the Stenay gap, one of the main lines
of retreat for the German southern
armies.
British Have Entered Oisy.
London. Nov. 5.-The British have
entered Oisy and further north have
captured Landrecies.
From the latter point to just west
of Guise, which is still in the enemy's
hands, the British advanced about a
mile along the Sambre-Oise Canal
and the Oise," says an official state
ment tonight.
Fighting is proceeding around LIE
Quesnoy. where the Germans have
launched a heavy counter attack.
An Advance of Three Miles.
THE line of the Sambre Canal was
stormed and the British made an ad.
vance of more than three miles be-
yond it to the east.
Terms Accepted in Field.
Washington, Nov. 5.-The terms
which stopped the victorious advance
on the Italian front were accepted by
the Austrian commander-in-chief in
the field in the name of the Vienna
and their execution is
guaranteed by the thorough beating
administered. which had con-
verified the defeated army into a dis
organized. fleeing horde.
German Retreat Spreads.
London, Nov. 4.-The Germans are
'~etreating to the east and southeast
II Valenciennes, Field Marshal Haig
eports from headquarters tonight.
The British are following the enemy
Up and taking prisoners.
The villages Of Villers-Pol, Jenlain,
Estreux and Onnaing were
uttered. |.
Have Captured 5000.
British troops last night stormed
he steel works held by the Germans ]
of Fal%enciennes. and ad- I
ancing one and one-half miles to the {
asst, completed the capture of the viii t
age of St. Saulve, the war office an I
ounced today. Haig's men took pris- g
five thousand Germans in two {
avs of fighting on this front.
Progress on Aisne Front. t
Paris. Nov. 4.-French troops con- c
niue to make progress on the River a
.isne front. In the course of last 7
light. the war office announces, the
rench captured the villages of Givry .
nd La Croix-Au-Bois. Fourteen addi- !
guns and two thousand prison
RS have been taken by the French In
Aisne operations.
Clear the Aroonne Region. c
The Argonne region has been p
|eared Of the enemy by the French
nd American forces. Numerous vii r
'ges and important positions were 81
aptured in Sundays fighting. The G
.atement says:
"The prolonged battle fought in the a
rgonne by our 18th Army in conjunc-
on with the American Army has ter h
mated in complete success for our
mics. The enemy. who had stub o.
,rnly defended the passages of the
isne. then chung desperately to the q
CODED heights, where he found ex-
,llent natural defense, has seen his T
sistance give way under our vic.
rious efforts. ii