--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 22 number: 1 published: 1918-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Americans within Gun Range of Metz,\" *Improvement Era* 22, no. 1 (November 1918): 51." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2201unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2201unse start_page: 51 end_page: 51 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2201unse publication_year: 1918 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Americans within Gun Range of Metz AMERICANS WITHIN GUN RANGE OF METZ When the British enter St. Quentin, and gazing eastward from one of Lorraine, that the hills, this is the sight, Metz, the strongly f rtified city of the city, and will meet their eyes. The Americans are within gun range of are constantly advancing under fire of the enemy. It was here that Marshal Bazaine of the French army surrendered to William 1870, but 1918 is likely to see the reverse of that King of Prussia, in surrender.