that bordered the river, used by the enemy with all his art
and weapons of defense. This sort of fighting continued against an enemy
striving to hold every foot of ground and whose very strong
counter-attacks challenged us at every point. On the 7th the First Corps
captured Chatel-Chehery and continued along the river to Cornay. On the
east of Meuse sector one of the two divisions co-operating with the
French captured Consenvoye and the Haumont Woods. On the 9th the Fifth
Corps, in its progress up the Aire, took Fleville, and the Third Corps,
which had continuous fighting against odds, was working its way through
Brieulles and Cunel. On the 10th we had cleared the Argonne Forest of
the enemy.

It was now necessary to constitute a second army, and on October 9th the
immediate command of the First Army was turned over to
Lieutenant-General Hunter Liggett. The command of the Second Army, whose
divisions occupied a sector in the Woevre, was given to
Lieutenant-General Robert L. Bullard, who had been commander of the
First Division and then of the Third Corps. Major-General Dickman was
transferred to the command of the First Corps, while the Fifth Corps was
placed under Major-General Charles P. Summerall, who had recently
commanded the First Division. Major-General John L. Hines, who had gone
rapidly up from regimental to division commander, was assigned to the
Third Corps. These four officers had been in France from the early days
of the expedition and had learned their lessons in the school of
practical warfare.

Our constant pressure against the enemy brought day by day more
prisoners, mostly survivors from machine-gun nests captured in fighting
at close quarters. On October 18th there was very fierce fighting in the
Caures Woods east of the Meuse and in the Ormont Woods. On the 14th the
First Corps took St. Juvin, and the Fifth Corps, in hand-to-hand
encounters, entered the formidable Kriemhilde line, where the enemy had
hoped to check us indefinitely. Later the Fifth Corps penetrated further
the Kriemhilde line, and the First Corps took Champigneulles and the
important town of Grandpre. Our dogged offensive was wearing down the
enemy, who continued desperately to throw his best troops against us,
thus weakening his line in front of our Allies and making their advance
less difficult.

DIVISIONS IN BELGIUM

Meanwhile we were not only able to continue the battle, but our
Thirty-seventh and Ninety-first divisions we