The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 14, 1918, Page 10

= * along its whole front. | * to free Nancy, THE SEATTLE STtAkK EYE-WITNESS TELLS STORY OF FAMOUS U. S. VICTORY - w Continued From Page One | * the number of prisoners counted as 13,300.) Eighteen hundred prisoners, in cluding cight officers, were taken when Thiaucourt fell ficers were included in anot Numerous machine guns have been seized, One infantry detachment charged and captured an entire bat tery of field guns, which were firing on them Two six-inch cannons taken, indicating that the gun haul is undoubtedly heavy One tank captured a battery of field pieces, five machine guns and 75 men. Sergt. Graham sat on top of the| tank during this operation, Some| was felt even on the eastern # - German batteries, when they fell| the Moselle river, where enemy into the hands of the Americans, | troops were forced to evacuate the were still in their camouflaged posi: | pend in atreath, American pa tions. The Germans had not had time to attempt to remove them Refugees Are Freed Refugees are being sent back from several towns after remaining in them during the four-year German occupation. ‘- The two banks in the city were | ¢4,, looted by the enemy. Practically all the houses were plundered. Inhab itants said the Germans had squeez ed them for contributions of 1,000,000 francs. So fast did the Americans travel when they hit the German line that all objectives designated for the first @ay were reached early in the after- noon. In that short time, the salient was pushed in four or five miles The effect of Pershing’s victory is the little Paris of France, from the menace of German | guns for the first time since 1914. | It also opens the complete Nancy- | Verdun railway, greatly strengthen ing allied communications. | Prisoners reported they had been ordered to hold permanently a line morth of Pannes, if possible, other: | wise to withdraw to the Hindenburg line positions. Shortly after they re- ceived this command the Americans | captured Pannes. Tanks Are Effective Despite the mud, the American tank crews made an excellent show- ing on their first appears They Preceded the infantry attac at sev. eral different points. T went smashing thru heavy belts of barbed wire and crawled over German trenches that had stood for four years. Afterward they aided in mop ping up the numerous captured towns. ‘The colonel of the tank fleet was | 0 anxious to fight aboard one of his | land battleships that his superior de- | tailed two other officers to keep him from so doing. Allied supremacy in the air was) quickly won and remained ours. A| heavy rain poured but in spite of | this the allied airplanes dominated the air. boches attempted BRITISH CRUSH FLAME ATTACK | LONDON, Sept. 14.—German pris: | oners taken by the British fighting | in the Trescault-Havrincourt sector September 12 exceed 1,500, Field| Marshal Haig reported today. (This is the sector before Cambrai.) | “Prisoners in the operations of the | |) Third army, which won complete | | success in the Trescault-Havrincourt sector, September 12, now exceed |} 1,500," the statement said. | “As a result of progress made yes- | j to} |} terday northwest of St. Quentin, our line has been established east of Bihecourt and Jeancourt.” “At Havrincourt the enemy at- tacked yesterday in force, under cov- er of a heavy artillery fire. He pen- | etrated the eastern portion of the vil- lage, but after hard fighting the at tacking infantry was driven out and| | Eighteen of. | day bag. | ecurate firing of our All night our their enemy's back are: Difficult Fig! to m 1 up two quickly the German lines began giving way, plosions were y continued Most of them v | On the western s were also | whe The trols trenches, By the strategy of the American jermans were attack, 3 acuate Montste without a fight toe to keep from being cut off. huge peak Fr ed to its summit It was reported that great quanti ties of supplie: and it was would be found there. As they fell back, the started big fires in Pannes and in Vigneulles wood, observation a sharp wedge the main ass: from the south progress was made difficult fighti strong resistance. effect of the German de occupied balloons, | supplies they could not remove. Fighting in the pocket was far | different from that which the Ame: shot down, As able to up with the infantry, | very wealthy the abandoned I herewith subscribe for obliged Montsec dominating the en h patrols climb after the enemy 1919. found intac ed ss many If possible, Germans where th => POCCCDCDECEDSCODC CCAD OEOS — our positions restored. “North of Havrincourt we advanc-| |! ed slightly between the village and || the canal. In the evening the ene- | my attacked east of Trescault and| gained a footing in our trenches. He | ‘was driven out, leaving a number of dead. | “A strong night bombing attack, | with liquid fire, was made against | our positions northeast of Gouzeau-| court. After forcing our advanced Positions to withdraw, this attack also was successfully beaten off. | “We established new posts last might on the bank of the Canal du| Nord, in the region of Sauchy-Cau. | chy and opposite Olsy-Le-Verger. “In the La Basse: pied Achy Les-La Street Jazz Dance to Aid Red Cross Monster pavement jazz dance, for | the benefit of the Red Cross, will be | held Saturday evening at Harvard| SSSCOSO 6 COCCDSCODSOEOD Sececececed ave. and Roy st. Mayor Hanson will function as overlord, and the Naval Training Station band will furnish the music. All Seattle that can dance is invited, and the remainder | mit invited to look on. Each dance will! cost 5 cents dancing will last! |] until midnig 1A tr THRIFT STAMP a day | will keep the Hun away. | | When in need of a purga- tive, do not resort to vio-| | lent cathartics, but take the gentle, natural laxative— Beecham Pills Largest Sale of Any Medicine in the World. Seld everywhere. In Boxes, 10c., 25c. 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