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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1918
Page
1
Allied dispatches describe a major American drive along the St Mihiel salient opening with ten mile advances and 9 500 German prisoners. French and British forces supported the push as German lines collapse, villages fall, and a widening battle front develops toward Metz.
More than a hundred tanks took part in the first American drive against the St Mihiel salient. Tanks and troops moved under a smoke screen while American and French gunners pounded German artillery along a ridge. A detachment of 45 tanks lost only one vehicle in heavy mud as they swept away enemy machine gun nests and kept the advance going. Rain and sticky mud hindered progress as Franco American bombardment roared for miles.
Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and cool coastal winds. A western disturbance forms a trough from Ontario to the Massachusetts coast bringing general rain in the eastern lake region and New England with heavy rain along the New Haven Boston coast. Observations show varied conditions across cities with New Haven at 58 cloudy and several locations recording rain or clear skies.
In a dawn assault near the Meuse and Moselle, General Pershing and Secretary Baker watched American troops surge forward aided by tanks. German lines yielded rapidly, with Mont Sec threatened and 700 prisoners taken in a single advance as US guns closed in and air support dominated the sky.
Harrison H. Wheaton, recently named director of the bureau of Americanization for the Connecticut State Council of Defence, has organized an immigrant information service to curb immigrant exploitation during the war. Plans include cooperation with the state board of education to develop evening school work, with active operation to begin soon.
Amsterdam reports Baron Von Hussarek, Austria's prime minister, intends to retire. He is said to have influenced Austria to rescind a secret Ukrainia treaty, concede Cholm to Poland, and be ready to make further Galician concessions, stirring cabinet friction.
A U.S. military mission in Lisbon held a lengthy interview with War Minister Okaneredey on September 13, detailing aims and cooperation prospects between the two nations in the theater of operations and regional security.
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