On Monday, September 30, Don Martin sent a cable sent to the New York Herald beginning with his review of the war situation in France, and then reporting on his day at the front in and around Varennes-en-Argonne. It was published on Tuesday, October 1. ENEMY EXHAUSTED BY FOCH STRATEGY OF VARIED BLOWS Enemy Forces Bewildered  and Never Quite Certain of Plan of Defence By DON MARTIN Special Correspondent of the Herald with the American Armies in France [Special Cable to the Herald] WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, Monday                  Competent observers who long feared to believe their own convictions are now fully convinced that Germany is in a most serious predicament – not only because of her desertion by Bulgaria, but because of the general military situation on the Western front. To-day this situation is far more favorable to the United States and the Entente Allies than at any other time since the very beginning of the war.                    

          On Sunday, September 29, Don Martin was again at the front in the Argonne Forest, saw the German trench system with its ‘palaces’ and visited Montfaucon, which had been captured on September 27 after very tough fighting.              Also on September 29, Don Martin wrote from Bar Le Duc what would be his last letter to his daughter Dorothy in Silver Creek, New York.  In it, he commented on the way the war was being fought in the Argonne Forest:               The Americans are still fighting all along the line, but it is a queer kind of fighting. The two armies can’t see each other. The Germans hide themselves in woods and villages and use machine guns The Americans sneak up on them the best they can.           Don Martin also gave his assessment about the end of the war, changing from what he wrote in an August 20 letter – ‘ the war will not end this year. That is certain’ – to a more optimistic prediction:                  The war is coming along pretty well... T

         On Saturday, September 28, Don Martin visited the battle in the Argonne forest from the correspondent's base in Bar Le Duc. Don’s cable sent on September 28 to the New York Herald was published on Sunday, September 29 . OUR MEN SMASH AHEAD  AGAINST A STIFF RESISTANCE Don Martin Tells How U.S. Troops  Sacrifice Speed To Conserve Lives INCIDENTS SHOW PERIL OF OPERATIONS Thirty Guns Captured By Indian Tactics  Reinforced By Sniping With Rifle Fire By DON MARTIN Special Correspondent of the Herald with the American Armies in France (Special Cable to the Herald) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, Saturday                        In the fighting raging now in the region of historic Verdun and west through Champagne the Americans are running against some of the vicious machine gun resistance such as marked the advance over that part of the country that lies north of the Marne. It seems the Germans depend largely on the deadly machine guns, so the boys w