Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-17

forward with wonderful speed and captured Muraux, while its left unit reached and held the Cote St Ger main. The advance continued on the following day, the 9th division being far ahead of the units on it's flank The 90th had not yet got across the river, and the 17th French corps, on the right, which was trying to con verge on Breheville, did not succeed in getting forward until this day.
 The 5th division patrols on Nov. g reported that the enemy was in gen. eral retreat and an advance in force was ordered. The villages of Louppy and Removille were captured, and, in the evening troops of one regiment swam the Loison and captured Jametz. The French took Damvillers, while two companies on the left of the 5th division captured Mouzay, en- abling the 90th division to cross the river. On Nov. 10 the Foret de Weevre, jungle of trees and heavy undergrowth with roads knee deep with mud" was mopped up. Here the division stood at the signing of the armistice.
 These troops had stormed the heights east of the Mouse, had pushed wide salient to a depth of 15 kilo- meters into the enemy's line. and had contributed materially to the ad, vance of the 90th division on it's left and that units capture of Stenay. The 5th was five kilometers in ad- vance of the troops on its left and two kilometers beyond the troops on its right. The divisions report says Its operations form a brilliant ex- ample of what the American soldier can do in an emergency when he must go to the utmost extent of his power"
 The 32nd division moved up to the right of the 5th division on Nov. 10, taking over the sector of the 18th French Colonial division It ad- vanced west of Brandeville in a fogI that day and a new attack had been ordered on Nov. II when the armis- tice was signed.
 Operations East of Mouse.
 The 17th French corps, command ed by General Claudel, which was part of the French Second army holding the hills north of Verdun, was left in place when the First American army took over the Mouse Argonne sector. One American divis- ion, the 29th, was assigned to it for use when the situation should so de, velop that the corps would come into action
 It was the general plan to make the main attack west of the Mouse while the 17th French corps on the east bank held and protected the flank. However, our troops, as they advanced on the west bank of the Mouse, suffered severely from ma chine gun and artillery fire coming from across the river, and it soon became necessary to push forward the line east of the Mouse so as to obviate this menace.
 The Germans had ,massed their forces east and northeast of Verdun to protect Metz, as they had believed that our main attack was coming in that direction North of Verdun from the Mouse eastward they had placed Austrian troops in line. and it was against this weaker part of the line that General Claudel struck
 Violates Principle, of Attack.
 He thus violated the principle of attack; that is, instead of attacking perpendicularly to the axis of the enemy's line, he attacked across the enemy's main front. In order to do this the 29th American division was brought in behind the 18th French division and then spread along the