The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-27
Mighty Armies in Deadlock,
Ententes Advance Tempo
rarily Halted
AMERICA TO LEND
HALF BILLION A MONTH
TO SUPPORT ALLIES
Will Be Divided Between Great
Britain. France, Russia, and
Italy--Jofre Warmly Greeted
at White House

Lond April :6.--Eight
times in the last sescnty-two
hours Hindcnburg has hurled
gigantic hcttatombS OF human
flesh into the teeth of British fire.
heiching death dealers on The
battlefield northeast Of arras
Eight times these battle hungry
Teuton youths. the "Hindenhurg
rcscrycs'-i0.0 900 to a mile
came on in dense masses Thin
lines fioatcd back behind them
like a nightmare. the thousand
fold roar of the cannon that had
been attracted there, tore the wall
TO bits The same thing hap
pcned aga II land again on the
front far to the south, where the
Tcutons and French face each
other I'm the supreme struggle on
the bIoodsoaked hills of Chemin
dos Danes. IA stretch of about six
and "A half miles.
Not an inch did these human bait
terng rams chip of the British ltn6
that menaces their northern pivot.
Douai Not the tiniest dent did they
hammer into the French circle OF
steel that is threatening their south.
ern stronghold, Laon.
Check Foes Advance.
But this they accomplished on both
fronts: They checked their foes ad.
vance, tenn .orarily at least, checked
II ny heapiue up in front OF the Wotan
and the Siegfried lines mountains OF
corpses And still tonight they were
surgine forward in dense masses.
stalking in a sea of blood, charging
over the breast works of dead, at
lacking, attacking and attacking
again.
To win the greatest battle in tho
worlds history. the sheer weight of
a multitude Of men--or, more COR
rectly of mems bodies-~is depended
upon by the kaisers high command
to stifle the death dealing fire gusts
of man made machines. Trenches.
dugouts. field works fortifications.
'lfnes'-all these things are an echo.
drowned in the cyclone of the guns
that brought them to naught. Bull
warks created by the skill and science
Of engineering have proved foolish.
futile barriers 10 the death that rides
on the flame ton gues of the cannon
that is when the foe has three-fot1
more guns The defence work or
mans hands blown to bits, man him.
self is now relied upon tn throw him.
self spike into the wheels OF
death.
Death Toll win stagger World.
I0dl Is what iidpPeAtNH ia N'tN '~~
Yesterday and today and is happen
ing thore tonight. When the toll OF
life of these last seventy-two hours
is counted il will stagger the world.
But IL will he some time before sucn
a minor" task is even thought OF.
There is no time no VITO bury the
dead The task of the hour is 10 heap
up new mountains higher and higher
until either side or both drop from
exhaustion.
Roth sides claimed victory today
The British war machine is work.
ing without hitch" said Malor-
General f. b. Maurice, chief director
of the military operations at the war
office.
They had TO withdraw each time.
the Berlin war Office, tell
ing of the British onslaughts. IL SAID
the same thing with the addition.
with sangunary losses of the
French attcks.
"Completly repulsed,' said thu
british headquarters report of the
Teuton counter-thrusts. And the
Paris war Office reported the same
result of the German counter-attacks
on the Aisne and in the Champagne.
breasts are taking the place or
parapets." says a correspondent. de-
scrbing the reckless waste OF life by
the &ermans.
German troops look across fields
piled with corpses 10 the British army
which they repealed successfully. is
the way the war correspondent or
the Koelniche Zeitung reports the
battle.
Where War VIII BE Won or Lost.
Along the eastern boundary or
what once was the hamlet of Cav
relle ragged the most frightful car
mage of the day The ruins of this
just before the war--form the index
tiny village-350 inhabitants it counts
ed Just before the war--form the in
dex finger of the British hand OF
steel reaching out toward Douai. IL
Is here that Hindenburg has told his
men the war will be won or lost.
So the fresh young legions that have
been stored up for this final contest
ever since last fall are fiingfng thcm-
selves into the fray determined to
decide the issue here and now.
That the British are suffering fear
full losses no one here darea to Ques-
ton. But every Tommy II the
front and every Brtton ~ hanse 4
tbak ther4 rl11 m elsd
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