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THE WAR DAY BY DAY PROGRESS OP THE WORLD'S GREATEST BATTLE. German Drive Comes to Halt.?New Offensive Against French.?Americans Take a Hand. THURSDAY. 'The strength Qf the great German offensive is apparently just diminishing. On the seventh day of the titantic battle there were strong indications that the enemy was feeling materially the strain he had undergone and that his power had been greatly impaired through hard usage. While the town of Albert has been captured from the British and west | of Roye the French have been com- i pelled to give ground in*the face of greatly superior numbers, the British have repulsed heavy attacks, both north and south of the Somme, and also driven back across the Ancre !*"' / river the Germans who forded the stream Wednesday. The fighting still / continues of a sanguinary nature on all these sectors, but everywhere the t British and French are holding the enemy. Especially severe has been the fighting west of Albert. The British gains, between the Somme and Ancre regions are reportby the recapture of the towns of Morlancourt and Chipilly. South of the Somme they have advanced to ^ Proyart. fmrr, Along tne nity-miie nuiii) ixvui | the region of Arras to the south of Oise, near Noyon, the effects of what was to have been the final stroke to end the war in a victory for the Teutons are only too plainly evident in the reaevastation of the countryside and the wreck and ruin of the towns, villages and hamlets through which the armies have passed. Ill . ; - FRIDAY Slowly assuming the shape of a giant plow share, the German drive in Picardy has come almost to a halt except, at the very tip of the salient F/'V driven into the lines of the entente j allies. As the area covered by the Teutonic offensive stands now, it runs, on the south, in an almost otraiVht line from Landricourt on 0~_ , the old "Hindenburg line" to Montdidier, well behind the allied posi tions as they stood in 1916. Severe fighting has taken place on the French part of the line. The Wf * German -attempts to advance on the V ^extreme tip of the salient driven into fee French positions have been fruitless. The British on the front north of ?tbe Scarpe also have repulsed'the enjpmy, but south of this river they h&Ve been forced to retire. From Moittdidier the line to the northeast k;runs with a sharp angle to Warvillers v. . ;and there it turns northwards and passes along the river Somme to i?above Albert, where it again turns to thfe northeast until it joins the old line held by the contending arming on the morning of March 21. Two Now Features. Bfe * Of the confusion of the battle and the contrary claims of the contending armies two new features stand out. 0. ? The first is that the French, over a front of six miles, have driven into the German lines along the southern side of the salient established by the Teutonic drive. The other is that the Germans have begun a new operation to the east of Arras, which may be the inception of a widening ~ - * - .it. I ; of the area or Dattie 10 tne normward. ' At the present moment the allied world is looking anxiously for news of the success of the French thrust into the flank of the German forces. : \ The fact that the drive progressed rapidly and cut a deep notch into the German held ground in the region jl* of Noyon may indicate that this movement is the counter offensive ... - ' which has been expected for the last three days. Progress by the French for a considerable distance in the Germato ^forces would cut off the Teutons' fighting at the very tip of the "plough share" and compel them to retreat or at least pause. SATURDAY After eight days, during which it has swept forward over the rolling hills of Picardy, at times like a tidal wave, the German offensive has slowed down. Instead of a sweeping advance, its progress has beer checked at all but one sector of the front, and there it has been merely creeping for the last two days?this fact is even admitted by the German war office, , which usually concedes nothing. From Albert south to Montdidier there has been a slow move. The British lines hav? been holding stubbornly and have thrust back the Germans. The French reports are silent as to the progress upon the line from Lassigny to Noyon, except to say that the attack is continuing and that fresh French troops are arriving in this region. Nothing has developed to show that this is more than a purely local engagement fought for the purpose of preventing the Germans from reaching the Oise river, and having this stream as an additional protection to their left flank. From Albert south to Montdidied there has been a slaw movement to the west, but the hills west of Montdidier are still being held by the French. No ground has been made against the French along the southern side of the salient driven into the allied lines, while it is asserted that the French counter-attack from Lassigny to Noyon is still going on. The extreme depth of the German wedge now is about thirty-seven miles. Meanwhile, the allied world is awaiting for the Entente forces to strike back at the Germans. SUNDAY. French troops are now meeting the shock of a German attack on a twenty-mile front in what may develop into the most important battle fought since the start of the offensive ten days ago. Foiled at Arras in the attempt to take that place from the British, and disorganize the northern British line, and finding themselves able to advance only step by step at great cost, in their thrust along the Somme toward Amiens, the Germans Friday turned southward and hurled masses upon the French in the Montdidier salient. It is here, from Moreauil, len miles northwest of Montdidier, on a curving line around the latter place and eastward to beyond Lassigny, nearly fifteen miles away, that the battle was raging at last accounts. Violent assaults were delivered upon the French lines, which developed a powerful resistance. The initial force of the impact, however, wa^ sufficient to drive the French back short distance at and near, the point of the salient. Pushing westward from the branch of the Avre, which runs in a northwesterly direction from Montdidier, the enemy forced his way into several villages. The advance, as shown by the locations of the villages announced as captured, reached,a maximum of about three' miles in this sector. South of Montdidier the wedge also was further driven in about two miles Fighting at this point, around Ayencourt, was still in progress late Saturday in a heavy rainfall. MONDAY The American army in France is to fight shoulder to shoulder with the British and French troops engaged in the titantic struggle with the Germans in Picardy. Gen Pershing's entire force has been given into the hands of Gen. Foch, the new general- j issimo, who is to use the men where he desires. More than 100,000 Americans, intensively trained and fully accout- J ered, are available for use in aiding to stem the tide of the German hordes and loads of them, on rail road trains and in motor trucks, and even afoot, are on thfir way to the battle front, eager to do their part in defeating the im/aders. The miserable weather which has broken over the country is proving no deterrent to the Americans as they push forward from all directions toward the battle zone. In the region of the Somme, southward to where the battle lines turn eastward, furious fighting has continued on various sectors, but everywhere the enemy has been held and even pushed back at some points. Nowhere has he been able, although he continued to throw great masses of men into the fray, to gain ground, except an infinitely small tract from the French north of Moreuil. British and French machine guns and riflemen, as in days past, again tore great holes in the ranks of the field gray as they endeavored to press on. So great have been the losses of the Germans in front of the British north of the Somme, that Sunday saw them unwilling again to take up the gage of battle. Along the Scarpe the British themselves went on the of fensive, and to the east of Arras captured the-village of Feuchy. On the southern end of the line, where von Hindenburg is endeavoring to pierce through to the old German positions as they stood before his retreat in 1916, the British and French trops, fighting together, have met the enemy in furious combats, but everywhere defeated him with sanguinary losses. TUESDAY While the advance of the German armies in Picardy has come almost to a halt, there has been severe fighting on the extreme western edge of the battle zone. Encounters in which large forces have been engaged have occurred north of Moreuil, but there seems to be no decided advantage ? ** r\ A Vvtt t gaiucu uj inc icuiuuii/ in v auoi o. They claim to have taken heights and to have carried a wood in advance of their line near.Moreuil, but the British say they have driven back the enemy from positions they have occupied elsewhere in this sector. The French lines farther south have stood firm against savage assaults, especially in the region of Montdidier and eastward of that place along a part of the line which was subjected to a terrific strain for two days late last week. In a number of sectors the French have surg ed forward and taken hard-earned ground from the Germans and have established their line solidly along the Oise river. 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