DRIVE STARTED AT ST. MIHIEL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 306, 14 September 1918, Page 7

DRIVE STARTED AT ST. MIHIEL

IMPORTANT ADVANCE MADE FURTHER BRITISH SUCCESSES PROGRESS'MADE BYTHE ;, If ZEALANpS : ■■' \ — __ - ' It is announced to-day that the American First Army has taken its place on the Western battlefront', and is attacking loth sides, of the German salient which extends across the Mouse at St. Mihiel. The Americans are fighting, no longer as detaohed units temporarily incorporated in the French and British armies, but a-s-a completely organised army under their own Oommander-in-Cliief, General Pershing. Reports declare that the attack is prospering well in its early" stages, and that while the, Americans are breaking into both.Hanks of the salient, French forces are successfully attacking its apex. An , official report states that the Americans have captured thus far eight thousand prisoners and advanced in places to a depth of five miles. A French communique adds that the American attack is developing under the best conditions. • According to.one message ,the United States troops have captured Thiaucourt, which means that they are . astride the railway from Metz to St. Mihiel, 15 miles east-north-east of the latter place. The British, meantime, have crossed the Canal Mu Nord and broken into the Hindenbnrg line-south-west of ■Camb\ai, and have reached the bank of the canal due west of that centre. They have also captured several towns further south, and French and British in co-operation are closing in on the approaches to St. Quentin. ,