The daily Alaska citizen., 1920-01-15

meters rom our point of departure on November 1. We had cut the onemy's main line of communications. Recognizing that nothing but a cessa- ton of hostlities could save his armies from complete disaster, he appealed for an immediate armisticc on November 6.
 Meanwhile general plans had been prepared for the further employment of American forces in an advance between the Mouse and the Mosole, to be directed toward Longwy by the First army. while the Second army was to assume the offensive toward the Briey Iron basin Orders direct ing the preparatory local operations involved in this enterprise were is- sued ou November s.
 "Bewteen the 7th and 10th of No. yember the Third corps continued its advance eastward to Remeivillc, while the Seventeenth French corps. on ito right, with the Seventy-ninth, Twcrty- sixth and Eighty-frst American diyl- -fon- and ? French divisions. drove the enemy from his final foothold on the heights east Of the Mouse. At 9 D. m on Noveber 9 aparoDriato orders were sent to the First and Second armies in accordanc. with the following telegram from Marshal Foch to the commander of each of tha allied armies:
 "The enemy. 1fsorganlzaa hv our repeated attacks retreats along thn entire front
 "It is important 10 coordinate ord expedite our movements.
 q appeal to the energy and the initiative of inc commanders tn-rhfof and of their armies 10 mak, decisive the results obtained"
 Tn consequence of the foregoing instructions. opr Second arry pressed the enemy along ifs oa-i.a from. On the night of inc 1O-71th and the morning of the 11th the Fifth corps, in the First army. forced a crossing Of the Mouse east of Roqmronj and gained the commanding hoigcts with in the re-entrant of the river, thus completing our control of The Mouse river line At a. m on the 11th notification was received from Mar shal Foch's headquarters that the armtsttce had been signed and that hostilities would cease at II a. m. Preparatory measures had already been taken to insure the prompt transmission to the troops of sho an nomcoment of an ormistce."
 Under the headings of ordnance aviation and tanks, General Pe~shing gives some first hand information Of the actual equipment of the army with those much discussed tmole- ments and shows the extent to which America was compelled to rely on the allies He says:
 Our entry into the war found us with few auxlliartes necessary for it's conduct in the modern sense. The task of the ordnance denartmant In supplying artillery was especially dif- fcult. In order to met our require ments as rapidly as possible, we ac- cepted the offer of the French govern ment tO supply us with the artillery equipment of 75's, 155mm. howitzers and 155 G, P. P. guns from their own factories for 30 divisions The wis dom of this course was fully demon strated by the fact that, althO we soon began the manufacture of these classes of guns at home, there were no guns of American manufacture of 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 ces- satton of hostilittes were one hundred and nine 75 mm guns. In addition l 'N'lIi , iptl c-lliCu HOW IlLtIS IIO1u tue United States reached our front and were in use when the armistice was signed. Eight 14-inch naval guns of 1 American manufacture were set up on railroad mounts. and most of these were successfully employed on the 1 Meuse-ArgOnne front under the efl- cient direction of Admiral Plunkett of the navy
 Tn aviation we were entirely de | pendent upon our allies and here again the French government came to our aid until our own program could be set under way From time to time we obtained from the French such planes for training personnel as they could provide Without going into a complete discussion of aviation material, 1t will be sufficient to state that it was with great difficulty that we obtained equipment even for train ing 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 2,67f
 pursuit, observation, and bombing
 machines. The first airplanes received
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