The daily Alaska citizen., 1920-01-15

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 mont and Montsec which dominated the plain and afforded the enemy vn. usual facilities tor observation Ta. enemy had reinforced the position. by every artificial means during 9 period of four years"
 The operation was carried out with entire precision" the general contin- pes. "The rapjdity of our adyanc. overwhelmed the enemy who appa~ entIy had started to withdraw some of his clements from the lip of the salient. We captured l6oo0 prisoners 44 guns and large stores.
 The material results of the victory achieved were very important An American army vas an accomplished fact and the enemy had to'ttt- power No form of propaganda could over come the depressing effect on th" morale of the enemy of thi~ damon- stration of our ability to organize a large American force and drive # successfully thru his tsa0-,.. If gave our troops implicit confidence in thet. superiority and raised their moral, to the highest pitch For the e.-- time wire cntangIemenrs ceased to be regarded as impossible barriers and open warfare training. which had been SO urgently insisted unon proved to be the correct doctrine. Our divisions concluded the attack with such small losses and in .lcn high spirits that without rbo usual rest they We're immediately available for employment in heavy fghtfna in new theatre of operations Tn" strength of the First army in this battle total approximately 800 GOO men. of whom about 7O00O were Franch
 Without paustng to recurerate the now veteran divisions Pershin" swung them to the east and prepared for the Nr,uer.h~gonnp d.ive. the strategic importance of which he be lieved to be "socond to none on the western front" for "should thi. sys- tenn (of supply thru Sedan-Mezferez) be cut before the enemy could with draw his forces thru the narrow neck between Mezteres and the Dutch iron tier, the ruin of his armies in France and Belgium would b. complete"
 The entire frontal zone was "e'a. borately fortified" consisting of prac- tically a continuous series of posi- tions 20 kilomcters CT more in depth and strengthened. moreover by the natural features of the terrain The story of the hand-to-hond stu@ala which ensued is told dispassionataly by the report which says "contjnGou. fighting was maintained along the en- tire battle front" with "thp enemy's contesting every foot of our front. but by the end of October. "the en- emy's elaboratelv prepared positions including the Hindonburg line in ou~ front had been broken; the almost impassable ArgOnnc Forest was in our hands; an advance of 21 k1ometore had been effected; IS 500 prisoners. 37O cannon. 1000 machine guns, and a mass of material cautured, and tn" great railway artery thru Cargnan to Sedan was now seriously threatened"
 With the enemy graually breaking before him, Pershing found that his own reserves were beginning to show the effects of the terrific attrition After a careful review of the situation. the report recites that the decision to "continue the atrack" was reached on the theory that the enemy divt- sions were suffering even more.
 "Once a German division was en- gagged in the fight it was practically impossible to effect its relief" the general says
 From November to 6, three Amert- can army corps battered their way to Sedan and, to quote the official record
 By the 7th the right of the Third corps had exploited its river crossing of the Mouse, completely ejecting the enemy from the wooded heights and driving him out into the swampv plain of the Woevre; the Fifth and First corps had reached the line of the Mouse river along their respec- tive fronts and the left of the latter corps held the heights dominating l Sedan, the strateeical goal of the