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
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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
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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
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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
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; of the area or Dattie 10 tne normward.
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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
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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
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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. The expected allied
counter offensive has not yet come
but the Germans, who are reported
to be entrenching along the French
front, evidently expect it there.
The elements have been at work in
delaying the Germans' advance. Rains
are reported along the French and
British fronts. Wet weather there,
if continued, would handicap a further
advance of the Germans and be
of infinite value to the Allies, who
are moving their forces and supplies
over solid earth instead of ground
which has been churned into conditions
where every step is beset by
difficulties.
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