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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1918
Page
2
The St Mihiel salient was wiped out enabling an American breakout. About 15,000 German and Austro-Hungarian troops were captured. key railways and towns fell to the Americans. The victory opens routes toward Metz and strengthens plans to strike into Germany with air support harassing Metz fortifications.
Secretary Baker with General Pershing and General Petain visited St Mihiel shortly after its capture. Residents welcomed them, recounting German abuses including forced conscription of males 16 to 45 and the looting of banks. They said a relief committee helped prevent greater privation and that residents contributed a million francs to the German war treasury.
Paris dispatch reports German field marshal Hindenburg at the Metz fortress four days earlier. Allied forces engage in the St Mihiel sector as officers expect fierce resistance from German defenses toward an American offensive.
Allied aviators bombed German railways around Metz and Courcelles as the American First Army pushed through the St Mihiel salient. The air ministry reported attacks on the Metz station and transports with good results.
The article praises four hours of intensive shelling with gas and artillery that disordered German lines. It notes roads and supplies destroyed, many guns captured, and large prisoner and materiel losses. Allied advance gains high ground and stabilizes rail routes for future operations.
An Amsterdam report based on a Berlin dispatch describes Emperor William at the Krupp munition works in Friedrichshalle. He looks grave and gray but his eyes show a defiant kingly gleam as he delivers a 45 minute, manuscript free speech that mixed subdued and vigorous rhetoric.
The two masted fishing schooner Lottie C Mer chant of Gloucester was run down by a five masted schooner and sunk early today eighteen miles northeast of Monhegan Island. Seventeen crew members were rescued but Renne McDonald of Gloucester Mass died in the disaster.
General Pershing reports 13,300 prisoners taken by American forces in the St. Mihiel salient. He notes the enemy is retreating under pressure and destroying material as it withdraws. no tally of guns or loot is given.
The American forces achieved a rapid victory at St Mihiel, compelling German evacuation within a day. Observers note French and Allied contributions, with Hindenburg directing defense from Metz and Germans surrendering prisoners as the salient fell. The piece discusses strategic aims toward Metz Briery basin and Lorraine iron coal districts, led by Foch.
Washington reports that Pershing's army and French forces have completed the elimination of the St Mihiel salient and see this as the first step toward a larger plan to encircle Metz, the central German fortress on the front from the North Sea to the Swiss border.
An Amsterdam despatch notes Prince Kropotkin, famed scientist and geographer, once jailed in 1874 and escaped in 1876 from SS Peter and Paul fortress. After years abroad he returned to Russia in 1905 by an amnesty ukase and has since been openly antagonistic to the Bolshevik government.
A dispatch via Amsterdam to Central News reports numerous refugees arriving at Malines and Antwerp from Lille. The Belgian papers say Lille is being evacuated by the German forces.
Military observers hail the opening of Verdun to Commercy Toul and Nancy rail links as boosting French and American operations. German claims of evacuation draw amusement as seven German divisions allegedly occupied the Verdun salient, with substantial prisoner numbers reported.
American forces in Lorraine report 3500 German prisoners taken in a single district near Montsec. Major Schmesig, a count, was among captives. Detachments offered brief resistance then surrendered, while an attempted German bayonet rush was repelled with bayonet and halt.
Paris dispatch notes about 100 American wounded arriving in the rear from the St. Mihiel sector. American troops, many with flags, sang the Marseillaise as they attacked and overran German lines. A French detachment faced trouble in a wood of machine guns before being aided by improvised American support.
News from Paris reports America's first independent offensive on the western front has thrilled France. Dreaded rumors faded as papers publish battlefront dispatches with maps and explanations showing a successful advance, while Pershing's official communique stays modest about specific village gains.
Mrs. M. Godden of Fremont Ohio reports relief from heat flashes nervousness backache and irritability after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims widespread letters prove the remedy's merit and restores normal conditions.
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