Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-27
Wall of Battle-Hungry Teu-
ton Youths Torn to Bits
'" English Guns.
MOUNTAINS OF CORPSES
MARK SLAUGHTER SCENE
"Fiindenburg Reserves" 10000 to
Mile, Hurled Into Teeth of
Allied Death-Dealers.
ATTACKING IN SEA or BLOOD
breasts Taking Place of Parapets'
In Reckless Waste OF
Life.

LONDON. April &c Eish, times In
The last scventy-two hours IiindcnburE
has hurled gigantic hecatomb. OF
human nesh into the teeth OF British
fre-belchine dea til dealers on the bat
tie field northeast Of Arras. Eight
Tines these battle hungry Tcuton
Youths. the "Hindenburg rcScrves'-
10000 TO mile-camc or m dense
msHses. Thin lines noated back he
hind them like nightmare! the thous-
sndfold roar Of the cannon that had
feen attracted there tore the wall TO
his. The same thing happened again
nnd again on the front far TO the south.
where the :Teutons and French face
each other in the supreme struggle on
the bloodsoAked hills OF Chcmin- des-
DANES. a stretch of about six and a
half miles.
Not an inch did these human batter
ing rams chip on the British line tina,
menaces their northern pivot. Douai.
Not the tiniest dent did they hammer
into the French circle OF steel that is
threatening their southern stronghold
Laon.
Fiut this they accomplished on both
fron,s: they checked their foes ad-
vance, temporarily at Least checked il
BY heapinG UP in from, OF The Wotan
and the Siegtried lines mountains OF
corpscs. And still tonight the: were
surgins forward in dense masses
stalking In sea OF blood, charg ing
over the breastworks of dead attack
Ing, attacking and attacking again
Man IuMsELF RELIED on
no THROW SPIKE INTO WHEEL.
To win the greatest battle In the
worlds history, the sheer weight Of "a
multitude of men--or. more correctly
of mems bodies-is depended upon BY
the Kaiser's high command to stife
the death dealing tire gusts OF man
made machines. Trenches. dugouts
held works, fortifcations. "iines''-ail
these things are an echo. drowned in
the cyclone OF the guns that brought
them to nauSht. Ruiwarhs created by
the skill and science OF engineering
have proved foolish. futile barriers TO
the death that rides on the name
tongues of The nnon-that is when
the foe has threefold more guns The
defense work of mans hands blown
10 bits. man himself is now relied upon
TO throw h.nseif. a spike" into the
wheels OF deau
Yesterday and to-day. and is happen
ing there tonight. When the toll OF
lie OF these last seventy-two hours
is counted it will s:asser the world
But it will be some time before such
~ minor" task is even though; Of
There is no time now 10 bury the dead.
The task Of tho hour is 10 heap up
new mountains higher and higher
until either side or both drop from
exhaustion.
Both sides claimed victory" to-day
nHITIsH WAR ,fACHINE
WORRYING WITHOUT HITCH
The British war machine is work
ing without hitch said Major Gen
crai +. Is. Maurice, chief director Of the
military operations at the War Office.
They had to withdraw each time.
announced the Berlin War Office tell
ing Of the British onslaughts II said
the same thing, with the addition. with
sanguinary losses OF the French at
tacks
Completely rcpulscd" said the Brit
ish headquarters report OF the Tcuton
countcrthrusts And the Paris War
once reported the same result of the
German countcrattacks on the Asue
and i'm the Champagne.
breasts arc taking tho places OF
parapets." says correspondent. de-
scribing the reckless waste OF life by
the Germans.
German troops look across fields
piled with corpses to the British army
which they rcpellcd successfully is
tho way the war correspondent Of the
koelnische Zeitung reports the battle.
Along the eastern boundary OF what
once was the hamlet Of Gavrelle ragged
the most frightful carnage OF the day.
The ruins OF this tiny village-350 in
habitants 1t counted just before the war
formed the index finger OF the Brit
ish hand OF steel reaching out toward
Douai. II is here that IIindenburg has
told his men the war will be won or
lost. So the fresh young legions that
have been stored up for this final con-
test ever since last fall are ninGing
themselves into tho fray determined TO
decide the issue here and now.
GERMAN LOSSES MANY TIMES
LARGER THAN BRITISH
That the British are suffering fear
ful losses no ono here dares to ques-
tion. But every Tommy" at the front,
and every Briton at home is convinced
that there must be an end to this fu-
tile German process Of sending legions
upon lcgions to the slaughter house.
And go the faith in victory is Az un-
shAkable as ever. British military eN-
perts insist that the German losses
are many times larger than the British.
North Of the Scarpe-where Cav
relic Is the center Of the fghtins-the
battle late this evening was a dead
a iock To the south OF the river the
British had crept ahead little.