Salient Completely Flattened.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 14 September 1918, Page 3

Salient Completely Flattened.

MAGNIMaENT AKTTLLTQRY WORK TWO DIVISIONS TRAPPED. . T AUGJD HAUI* O-F PRISONERS. Received this day, 1)1 a.m. London, September 13. , iThe 'Daily Chronicle's correspondent 'oil-the Americ#n-Wat'»js:. , ; . General Pershing launched a limited abjective attack 011 a front of thirty to thirty-seven miles for the _ purpose of straightening the . St. Mihiiel saliont. Wo put up at night am artillery preptwiation on a grand scale. Tho guns were unlimbered at one o'clock and the roar of the artillery recalled the attack on yerduD. . Details of the battle unfolded, slowly, But it can 'bo said. that tho Americans swept toward? the second enemy positions aihlead of schedlulo time ; Th© resistance ivas not stiff, though it was not tame, before the second line was reached, but there the sho rpe>st encounters developed, delaying the advance. The Americans, undaunted, valorously pushed 011.. The operations augur well For the future. Nothing at present is more outstanding than the skill of the American artillery fire. The Germans attempted to silence the American batteries fifteen minutes after they started, but the Americans blottedl out the counter fire in exactly 35 minutes. .Other accounts show that the American) advance has narrowed the bottle nedk at St. Mihiel to six miles and has probably out off two German divisions. Tli© total prisoners are 9500. Later. The United Press correspondent re- , ports that the Amerioanp have completely flattened out the salient Midi tli'e prisoners thus far number 12,000. Washington, September W. The Verdun—Toul— Nancy railway is now in tlie Allies' possession. The United Press states that Berlin announces that the evacuation of bt. Mihiel was begun days before the American offensive.