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VOL. S7—NO. 74
.■I
out the St. Mihiel
no*
numbers 13,300. Gen-jeported
in His communi-
; _, received late tonight
:°»ar department. No mention
I ,..., i| e number of guns and
, . made »■ >■■■
boot! ired.
OiS;-
ieat .'•'•
. forces are
. .- backs
rican Army in Lor-
Tlie St. Mihiel sal-gul
tbe Am
... sept. IS.-
,. been wiped out and tlie e:"'-_
. virtually with
0n ;lie famous Wotan-ajenbnrgline.
with the Americans
.,.,.. i, p allelin
\ rdun to the afoaelel.
The line no
j.: iv. X immos
. and Herbeville.
harrassed by the allied flying squad-rons.
Around Cambrai and St. Quentin.
Meanwhile the maneuvering* on
the west front around Cambrai and
St. Quentin should not be lost sight
of by reason of the present Ameri-can
offensive. Here the British and
French daily are enlarging their
gains in the process of outflanking
and capturing these two important
towns, which are all but within their
grasp. Further to the north in Flan-ders
the British also are keeping up
their encroachments in the region of
La Basse and Armentieres, both of
which places are Imperiled.
them closely
. (tends past N'orroy.
St. Benoit, Hatton-j
. y.■. firs army has ear-
Text of Gen. Persliing's Rei>ort.
Washington. Sept. 13.—The state-ment
of Gen. Pershing follows:
"Section 1: In the Sfr. Mihiel sec-tor
we have achieved further success-es.
The junction of our troops ad-vancing
from the south of the sector
i with those advancing from the west
| have given us possession of the whole
salient to points twelve miles north-east
of St. Mihiel and have resulted
In the capture of many prisoners.
"Forced back by our steady ad-vance.
the enemy is retirini and
THE AMERICANS CAPTORE
13,300 GERMAN PRISONERS
THE PINCER CLOSED. AND THE
NUMBER OP GERMANS TRAP-PED
IS UNKNOWN.
American Headquarters in France,
Sept. 14.—.When the St. Mihiel oper-ation
began, there 'were from 90,000
to 100,000 Germans inside the sal-ient.
They escaped at the rate or
1,000 hourly, but the pincers closed
and trapped a hitherto unknown
number. The 13,300 already taken
prisoner does not include the bulk of
those believed to be trapped in the
salient.
FIRST BIG AMERICAN
OFFENSIVE BOLD STROKE
• ■ ■
i J.I «..ci.... is retiring ana s
»** assigned to destroying large quantities of rnate-
I [the famous St.
| tin Lorraine.
, little mor than 24 hours not
i,, I ■ >■■ work been accomplish-esI
Perilling'* men had
• tow a?. villages and
i< in the sector with-
:•. I were standing on
Mo*el.e river at
- the stream i;:-
The southern
\!.'-z. the great
i Lorraine, were
ur - "'
Germans had
more thin 12.-
'Oiinted .md others
rial as ha goes. The number of pris-oners
counted has risen to 13.300
Our !ine now includes Herbeuville-
Thillet. Hattonville. St. Benot. Xam-
' mes. Jaulny, Thiacourt and Vitnfflle."
ffindeabug at Mots Expecting
Americans.
Paris. Sept. 13.—Officers of the
American general staff expected a
desperate resistance where the arm-ies
now are battling in t'.ie St. Mihiel
sector.
Tie presence of Field Marshal
Hi n,l en burg at the Metz fortress four
days ago conveyed the impression
■:• >' " back to the that the Germans expected an Amer-gups
and 'oan attack and were resolved to de-fend
the positions Utterly,
PERSHING'S SUNDAY
REPORT OF ADVANCE.
guns
i ;■;: - md great quantities
I and other war stores
E i:i Al ■ sii I tnds.
Mouth of Iliti Sack Closed.
on the north
- - i istward to Pagny Washington. Sept. 15—The Amer-
K:l have closed the ican line on -the left bank of the M>-
'■■ "• - - i-ack which extend- *e::e river in the St. Mihiel sector,
■ St. Millie!, trapping !la-3 been advanced from one to two
fast advance all miles and now includes the towns of
■hi r ilefi to tjl.o Vilcey and -Vorroy, General Pershing
•' the zroat boa- said ;n his communique for today.
i U morning ho received tonight at the war depart-i<
h of the offensive. jment. An enemy counterattack
- the eastern side launched near St. Hilaire. at day-s
north of Hattonville break today, was easily repulsed and
debouched from a number of prisoners taken.
I <re astride the j Seventy-two guns abandoned by
inx from Commercy to'tlle enemv "in his hasty retreat"
■ - the Th'aucourt- were brought in during the normal
Metz railroads are "tention of the American lines be-jyond
Jaulny, General Pershing said.
del l.u- in Roar. ;This brought the total number of
the Americans
I
Rear.
ie northwest* and
salient eastward Fres-llattonville.
Preny
! '« the ground lying
' "n ,heir «re in American
C" ■ '• '"' Vigneulles.
I '"'" Post-A^Iousson and St.
I
-
'"■- eni
■
'-•■ting. Among the '^earner in the Mediterranean, is de-
..... . .,..
guns captured since
started the drive which wiped out
the St. Mihiel salient, to more than
200.
U-BOAT IS TRAILED AND
SUNK BY FRENCH TRAWLER
Paris. Sept. 14.—The exploit of a
French trawler, the Automne, which
salient and from j succeeded in destroying a submarine
"<d been expect-j whic!l wa« attacking a British
the rear of the nres-
'lominating height in
With the lessening of the tension
on the St. Mihiel front interest Is
centered .at present in the French as-sault
on the Ailette-Atsne front.
General Petain's troops here were
gaining ground where every yard
was extremely valuable, as the Ger-man
positions along the Aisne and
the Vesle to the east have been un-der
an increasing threat for some
time by the French advance on thei-left
flanks.
The advance will not hive to be
pressed much further before a Ger-man
retreat on a wide front in this
sector will be compelled.
Foch's Intention.
By driving in sharply in his pre-sent
move Marshal Poc'.i probably in-tends
to make untenable even t»:e
Ohemin-des-Dames, the former Ger-man
holding ground north of the
Aisne. He has made marked prog-ress
already in this by taking Mont-des-
Singes. south of the Ailette. It
is but a short distance ther.ce to the
Ainzy-Pinon line, the capture of
which by Petain last fall compelled
the German crown prince to fall back
from the Chemln-des-Damea to the
Ailette line to the north.
Renewal of Drive at St. GotMta Mas-sif.
The French progress likewise rep-resents
a renewal Of the drive at the
St. Gobain Massif, and therefore at
the citadel of Laon. which that bas-tion
defends. Further north above
the Ailette the French are reported
to be progressing ■sairsfactorily.
Along the Aisne the advance has
ti-.ken the French some distance fur-ther
towards the east and they were
early rc:>ort"d to have reached Vail-ly.
on the north bank of the Aisne.
pushing the Germans back from the
river as they advanced.
British Withstand Assaults.
The British front has held intact
against a series of German assaults
in what appears to be a lit of desper-ation
over the inroads made in the
defenses of Cambrai by Field Mar-shal
Haig"s forces in their recent pro-gress.
The British successfully beat
off several such attacks at Havrin-court
and Gouzeacourt.
GEN. PERSHING IX PERSONAL
COMMAND CAPTURES MANY
TOWNS AND PRISONERS.
Paris, Sept. 12.—(Reuters. Lim-ited.)—
American forces in the
course of the last twenty-four hours
have accomplished a series of bold
strokes in Lorraine and in the Vos-according
to the unofficial informa-tion
here.
Digest of Thursday's Fighting.
The American first army under
command of Gen. Pershing is in ac-tion
against the Germans on a 20-
mile front on the famous St. Mihiel
salient in Lorraine, which had stood
a sharp wedge in the French line
southeast of Verdun since the com-mencement
of the war.
In the preliminary thrust ground
• ■ American detachments" made "a T^, gain
j
ed ,on both ■**** « the tri- e ■ angle and also at its apex at St. Mi- surprise attack on the German pos'-
tions at many points and penetrated
the enemy lines at some places,
meeting with but feeble resistance.
Having at some places reached the
German support line the Americans.
In accordance with orders they had
received, retired. They destroyed all
the material they were unable to
carry away and blew up the machine
gun shelters, concrete block-houses
and munitions depots.
Heavy Losses by Enemy.
German heavy shells reached Iso-lated
points but tardily and ineffici-ently.
The Americans in the course
of these operations inflicted heavy
losses on the enemy. On the whole
of this front there was a sustained
reciprocal bombardment.
GENERAL PERSHING !\
PERSONAL COMMAND.
Paris. Sept. 12.—The first big
American offensive, wh'.h began at
daybreak today between the Meuse
and Moselle rivers, was conducted
under Gen. Pershing's personal su-pervision
and was executed under or-ders
ot American officers with Amer-ican
soldiers. This was the first dis-tinctly
American operation of a ma-jor
charac-er launched or. the west-ern
front.
-■■«. OBUIS me — »"c -"cuiieriauean, is ae-
>er« taken were Aus- scribed in a dispatch to the Matin
I from Toulon.
' Tne trawler was patrolling the
Mediterranean when it received a
wireless call from the British ves-sel,
which was being attacked thirty
miles off Marseilles. Although the
submarine had submerged, the Au-tomne
traced it and succeeded in de-stroying
it with depth bombs. The
British steamer returned in safety to
Marseilles.
P°"«nl i;nec, „„ War.
op,ri„ion of the
*n described as
| objectives," it
't but have a most
an "'; ::'• on tl
til
V '< 'be obliteration
salient the Ameri-
Sl "'id position to act!
» in arms on sec- I
» the time b. ripe |
Germany direct. Al-
I
he future of
straightening
Automobile Accident Near Colfax.
■•■-«-• u.rect. Al- WWiinnssttoonn-.SSaa..lleemm,, SSeepptt.. 1122.—.-MMrr.
' 'ehiii: °h
ryMhf 3nd »*■ A' R P°e --seriously £
' y .,„„,, 0>m "s jured today in an automobile acci-niiii
■ ^'iv»eerrss and tthhuuss Horn ««.,.. o.u _.,..,. .. _ _
' ' ■-« Plans of the
' ' iifze
» ■-
I 11,0s 'n the west It
I *l»ii
their front
ll0u|d "ley be un-
'""" '••'•.„.,:„,
dent near Colfax, while Mrs. Fred
Miller, who was driving the car, al-so
sustained injuies as a result of
the machine turning over.
They were members of a bridal
party en route to Greensboro. Miss
««ene Region. ! Annie Poe, daughter ooff MMrr.. aanndd
Hoarti™" 3re heavily i MrS" A" P' Pt>e' and R,cnard Mosley,
" -»e region around ot this city, were the contracting nar-
. ut«ylag fortifications,
-'">• tons of bombs
I railways Ieadl
""■tress and it eeem-
»*t reason to expect
, '^"t supremacy in
- ...-/^surrounding
ties, the ceremony being performed
at 10 o"clock this morning. It ap-pears
that Mrs. Miller was attempt-ing
to pass other cars when she lost
control of her machine and ran into
a ditch. The injured were brought
to the hospital. Mr. Poe. it Is fear-
"> be sadly ,ed, has a broken back.
Americans Saturday Made Clean Job
of It.
With the American Army in Lor-raine.
Sept. 1!.—Throughout the
night and early today Pershing*s men
continued to advance and finished
cleaning up the St. Mihiel salient.
They cleared the forests of lurking
Germans.
Prisoners made conflicting state-ments
respecting German prepared-ness
for an attack in this sector.
Some say it was unexpected, others
declare they had advance informa-tion
of the hour and place of attack.
Still others expected it would take
place on the 15th and say that the
artillery had been ordered to with-draw
on the night of the attack. The
posts command was being moved
when the attack began and therefore
was caught unawares in the barrage.
This apparently explains the light
counter artillery fire Thursday morn-ing.
A Ge/fman prisones officer is quot-ed
as saying:
^The Hindenburg line in its pres-ent
state is untenable."
Russia Pays Germany $125,000,000
Indemnity.
London. Sept. 15.—The first por-tion
of the Russian war indemnity to
Germany was sent on Saturday last
from Moscow to Berlin, according to
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Copenhagen today. It amount-ed
to $125,000,000. one-half in gold
i.nd the remainder in notes. The
money was carried on a special train
under a strong guard and was re-ceived
by a representative of the
Reichebank at the border line.
Take Numbers of Towns.
London. Sept. 12.—American
troops on the Lorraine front have
captured the towns ef Thiacourt,
Pannes and ."folrsard. - .
North of St. Mihiel. Gen. Persh-ing"
s forces have captured Combres.
They are reported to have reached
the western outskirts of Donmartin
La Montagne.
French troops co-operating with
the Americans in their drive on the
St. Mihiel salient have reached the
western outskirts of St. Mihiel.
Five-Mile Advance on II-Mile Front.
The Americans attacked on an ele-ven-
mile front from Fey-En-Hay to
Xivray and made an advance at its
greatest depth of five miles.
Thiacourt was captured early in
the drive. From that town the bat-tle
line runs a little to tne soutu of
Baillonville. then to Pannes and
Nonsard. which were captured, to
Bois de Gargantus and north to
Montsec.
American cavalry patrols are mov-ing
in the direction of Vigneulles.
ten miles northeast of St. Mihiel.
At St. Mihiel. where the French
have reached the western outskirts,
the Germans are making a strong re-sistance.
The Germans still hold Ro-man
Fort, which is now being attack-ed
by the French.
Northwest of Pont-A-Mousson.
American cavalry patrols are report-ed
to be operating on the road north
of the Bois Communaux
No Delay in Schedule.
With the American Army on the
Lorraine Front. Sept. 12.—The
Americans in their drive reached the
first objectives at some points an
hour ahead of schedule time. Seven
hundred prisoners have already been
taken.
All along the line the advance has
been carried out on schedule. Near
Maizerais the troops, went ahead
against machine gun fire by crawl-ing
and tanks were sent to their aid.
To the north, Les Eparges Hill
and the neighboring Hill 3zO were
captured: numbers of the eusmy sur-rendered
at the latter place.
The American casualties have
been remarkably low.
hiel, and at iast accounts the Ameri-cans,
with whom some French troops
are brigaded, were f:-.;-t sweeping
across the salient in an effort to
close t..e mouth of the bi3 pocket
before the Germans can extricate
themselves from the perilous posi-tion
they are in as a result of the
suddenness of . .. blow and the ele-ment
of surprise .. carried with it.
Advance, of Over Four Miles Was
Swift.
Although the advance of the
Americans was swift and sure and
gains in excess of four miles on the
soutSitrn side of the bat.ie area were
made, the cavalry far outstripped th>
tanks and footmen and was last re-ported
operating along the railroad
near Vigneulles almost in the center
of the salient and some, ten miles
of St. Mihiel and also
nortnwest of Pont-A-Moucson.
through the forests and along the
railway line running northward to
Metz. the great . German fortress.
the southern outer fortifications of
ft-hich are less than ten miles dis-tant.
St. Mihiel Reported Recaptured.
Thiaucourt. Beuillouville, Pannes,
and several other towns in the south
were captured in the initial dash,
while on the west at the northern
edge of the pocket, the village of
Combress was captured and the en-virons
of Demmartin La ^ontagne
were reached. To the south every-where
the Americans penetrated into
the heights of the Meuse and the
French fought tneir way into .the
outskirts of St. Mihiel. Unofficial re-ports
are to the effect that the town
has been recaptured by the French.
The fighting front at the com-mencement
of the battle aggregated
twenty miles—eight miles on the
western-side and twelve nii'.es on the
southern side.- The fightiug was pre-ceded
by an extremely heavy artillery
bombardment and the troops and
tanks advanced under barrage which
was carried out with mathematical
precision.
Difficult For Enemy to Evacuate.
From the war maps it would seem
almost impossible for the Germans
to evacuate the salient as they ap-parently
are trying to do. without
huge losses in men and material. The
first reports show that the Ameri-cans
took 700 prisoners in the first
stages of the battle and had suffered
remarkably small' casualties.
GERMANY MAIE3 PEACE
OVERTURES TO BELGIUM
AUSTRIA-HUX1GARY .WANTS A
PEACE CONFERENCE OF ALL
THE BELLIGERENTS.
Amsterdam. Sept. 16—In extend-ing
an invitation to al; the belliger-ent
governments to enter into non-binding
discussions at some neutral
meeting place, the Austra-Hucgarian
government states that the object of
the confeenc-e would be to sesure
an exchange of views which would
show "whether those prerequisite^
exist which would make the speedy-inauguration
of peace negotiations
appear promising."
No Interruption of War.
The Austrian proposal, which is
announced in an official communica-tion
telegraphed hc.-e from Vienna,
suggests that there be ho interrup-tion
of the war and that the "dis-cussions
would go only so far as con-sidered
by the participants to offer
prospects of success."
The proposal calls for all the bel-ligerents
to seud delegates for a
'confidential a.id unbinding discus-ion
on the basic principles for the
tonciusion of peace, in a place in a
neutral country and at a near date
that would yet have to be agreed up-on."
The proposal says the conference
would be one o." "delegates who
■vouid be charged to make known to
one another the conception of their
governments regarding those princi-ples
and to re..e.vs analogous com-munications,
as well as to request
and give frank and candid explana-tion
on all those points which need
to be precisely defined.
The government announces that a
note embodying Us suggestions had
been addressed to the various belli-gerent
powers, that the Holy See had
been apprised of the proposal in a
special note. The governments of
the neutral states also had been ac-quainted
with the proposal.
Peace Offer to Belgium.
Lontion. Sept. 15—It is also learn-ed
that Germany has made a peace
offer to Belgium. The terms of this
proposal are as follows:
''That Belgium shall remain neu-tral
until the end of the war.
"That thereafter the entire eco-nomic
and political independence of
Belgium shall be reconstituted.
"That the pre-war comrt. ■. lal
treaties between Germany and Bel-gium
shall again be put into opera-tion
after the war for an Indefinite
period.
"That Belgium shall use her good
offices to secure the return of the
German colonies.
"That the Flemish question shall
be considered, and t'ie FlcmtSJ. mi-nority,
which aided the German in-vaders,
shall not be penalized."
The strategy of Marsha! Foch in The proposal contains no word re-the
present maneuver cannot be for- specting the repatriatiou or indemni-
St. Mihiel Reported Captured.
Paris. Sept. 12.—"The American
army attacked this morning in the
region of St. Mihiel. The operation
is developing under the best of con-ditions."
This announcement was made by
tne war office tonight.
With the American Army on the
Lorraine Front. Sept. 12.—St. Mihiel
has been recaptured by the French, ' markably well for one of his age.
seen except that it has as the first ob-jective
the levelling of the St. Mihiel
sector and the straightening of the
allied line from the region ot Ver-dun
eastward. The obliteration" of
the salient would be necessary be-fore
a direct thrust toward German
territory from this region would be
possible. Whether Marshal Foch has
in view a campaign up the Meuse
valley or Metz and the Moselle val-ley
in nind remains to be seen.
British Still Hard After Enemy Near
Cambrai.
In the north, Field Marshal Haig
is still hard after the Germans in the
region of Cambrai. Here, he again
has advanced his front toward the
much desired German base, penetrat-ed
into the old British defense line:
crossed the canal Du Nord north of
Havrincourt; taken Havrincourt and
another section of the Hindenburg
line and sent a thousand Germans
into the British prisoners" cages in
the rear. The Germans fought hard
at Havrincourt to stay the British,
but all their counter attacks were
beaten off.
Further advances for the British
also are reported into the region
south of La Bassee canal and north-west
of Armentieres.
ties, no admission that Germany
wronged Belgium.
Must be Complete' Victory.
Washington. S'pt. 15—Germany's
latest peace feeler advansed through
--iistria, it Was jfficiai'.;" stated today.,
best finds its ar.s. 3.- in President
Wilson's Ealtin: :re speech delivered
last April.
"Force, force ij th2 utmost, force
without c:l-i or limit, the righteous
and triumphant force which shall
make right the law of the world, and
cast every sei.l-sh dominion down in
the dust.'"
That was th? president's answer
then, and it was reiterated today;
it is his answer now.
HELD GUILTLESS IN
DEATH OP LEWIS GRAY.
The Patriot was especially glad to
see Mr. David Hunter on Saturday.
He is a remarkably well preserved
old gentleman. He told me that he
was taught by my father at the old
Patterson scBool house. He is now
87 years of age. but gets about re-
High Point. Sept. 12.—Clarence
Gordon and Lewis Coltrane. held
since yesterday in connection with
the shooting of Lewis Gray, were
found guiltless before a coroner's
Jury here today composed of C. C.
Robbins. A. S. Herrod. D. S. Wel-born.
Charles F. Long. D. V. Hos-kins
and J. H. Vestal. The hearing
was held before Coroner George L.
Stansbury.
It was brought out in the evidence
that Gray had gone to the home of
Coltrane to see a pistol that was
owned by Gordon and while fooling
with it the pistol went off and Gray
fell dead. A great number of wit-nesses
were examined seperate and
apart.
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