Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1918 — YANKS CHASE GERMANS [ARTICLE]

YANKS CHASE GERMANS

Americans Drive Huns to the Kriemhild Line. Inhabitants of 20 Alsace Villages Along the Frontier Are Sent to German Interior. Geneva, Oct. 4.—German military authorities have begun to remove the inhabitants of Alsace, according to the Democrate, in expectation of a FrancoAmerican attack on the frontier. The inhabitants of twenty villages, including Ferrette, Goutavon and Winkel, already have been Sent to Bavaria. Some of the villagers have escaped across the Swiss frontier. Fear of disorder is rampant throughout Alsace-Lorraine not only among the civilians but also among the military forces. Food is scarce and littl? fuel is available. The German authorities in AlsaceLorraine, the Democrate adds, are afraid of a general uprising in those provinces when the allies cross the frontier. With the American Army Northwest of Verdun, Oct. 4.—American units reached the Kriemhild-Steelung line at one point. Just south of Brieuiles they advanced to a spot where they established actual contact with this famous enemy system. The so-called Kriemhild-Steelung line, which the American front faces today, is part of the general German defensive system beginning at Douai, continuing south of La Fere and thence east to the Meuse., Crossing the % Meuse, the line extends eastward by the way of Etain and runs across the S/. Mihiel salient to the Moselle, which it reached just south of Pagny. When the St. Mihiel salient was reduced by the Americans the enemy this syStem hr that vicinity.