The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-14
Pershing Reviews Record Made By American
 Arms In France
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| tive fronts and the left of the latter corps held the heights dominating Sedan, the strategical goal of the Meuse-Argonne operation, fl kilometers from our point of departure on November 1. We had cut the enemys main line of communications. Recognizing that nothing but a cessation of hostilities could save his> armies from l complete disaster. he appealed for an im- mediate armistice on November 6. I Meanwhile general plans had been pre- pared for the further employment of Americ can forces in an advance between l the Mouse and the Moselle, to be directed toward Longwy by the First army while the Second army was to assume the of- 1 fensive toward the Briey Iron basin. ] Orders directing the preparatory local operations involved in this enterprise were 1 issued on November 5.
 TELEGRAM FROM FOCH Between the 7th and 10th of No vember the Third corps continued it's ad vance eastward to Remoiville, while the 17th French corps, on it's right, with the 1 18th, Goth and S1st American divisions, and two French divisions, drove the enemy from his final foothod on the heights east of the Meuse At g D. m. on November appropriate orders were sent to the First and Second armies in accordance with the following telegram from Marshal Foch to the commander of each of the allied arm- ies:
 "The enemy, disorganized by our re- peate1 attacks, retreats along the entire front.
 Tt is important to coordinate and ex- pedite our movements.
 I appeal to the energy and the mia tive of the commanders in chief and of l their armies to make decisive the re- suits obtained"
 i "In consequence of the foregoing in- structions, our Second Army pressed the enemy along it's entire front. On the 1 night of the 10th-l1th and the morning of the 11th, the Fifth Corps, in the First | Army. forced a crossing of the Mouse 1 east of Beaumont and gained the com manding heights within the re-entrant of the river thus completing our con l trol of the Mouse river line. At 6 a. r-4 on the 11th notification was received i, from Marshal Foch's headquarters that | the armistice had been signed and that hosilities would cease at il a. m. PreN paratory measures had already been taken to insure the prompt transmission to the troops of the announcement of an armistice."
 Under the headings or ordnance, avia- ton and tanks, General Pershing gives some first hand information of the tual equipment of the army with those much discussed implements and shows
  pelled to rely on the allies. He says: Our entry into the war found us win few of the auXiliaries necessary for it's conduct in the modern sense. The rasK of the ordnance department in supply ing artillery was especially difficult. In order to meet our requirements as rap 1 idly as possible, we accepted the offer of the French government to supply us with the artillery equipment of 75s, 155- mm howitzers and 155 G. P. F. guns from their own factories for % divisions. The wisdom of this course was fully demonstrated by the fact that, although we soon began the manufacture of these classes of guns at home, there were no guns of American manufacture of tSn calibres mentioned on our front at the date of the armistice. The only guns of these types produced at home which reached France before the cessation of hostilities were 109 T-mm. guns. In ad- 1 dtion twenty-four S-inch howitzers from the United States reached our front and were in use when the armistice was signed Eight H-inch naval guns of American manufacture were set up on lrailroad mounts, and most of these were successfully employed on the Meuse- Argonne front under the efficient direc- tion of Admiral Plunkett of the navy. "Tn aviation we were entirely depend ent upon our allies, and here aga4n the
 
 our own programme could be set under way From time to time. we obtained from the French such planes for train ing personnel as they could provide. Without going into a complete discus sion of aviation material, it will be suf- ficient to state that it was with great difficulty that we obtained equipment even for training. As for up-to-date combat planes, the development at home was slow and we had to rely upon the French who provided us with total of 2s76 pursuit. observation and bombing machines The first airplanes received from home arrived in May and alto gether we received 1Sl9 planes of the DeHaviland type. The first American squadron completely equipped by Amer ican production. including airplanes, our aviators excelled all others. They crossed the German lines on August T. 1918 As to our aviators, many of whom trained with our allies, it can be said that they had no superiors in daring and in fighting ability. During the bat