Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
BIG DRIVE SLOWING DOWN.
Seventh Day Gives Evidence of Ger
mans Wcarying.

washington, ID. g., March 27.-Jhc
strength of the great German often
sive in France apparently is fast di
diminishing. On the seventh day OF
he titanic battle there were strong
indications that the enemy was feel
ing materially the strain he had UNI
dcrgonc 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 Royc the French have been com
PEELED to give ground in the face OF
greatly superior nur,hCrs, the Brit
ish have repulscd heavy attacks, both
north and south Of the Sommc and
have also driven back across the An
ere river the Germans who forded the
stream Wednesday. The fighting
still continues Of a snnguinary char
ncter on all these sectors, but every
where the British and French are
holding the enemy. Especially severe
has been the fighting west OF Albert.
whore the Germans, in an endeavor to
debouch westward were rermlsed by
Field Marshal IIaig's men with the
heaviest casualties.
The British gains between the
Sommc and Ancre regions arc repre-
sented by the recapture Of the town
OF Morlancourt and Chipilly. South
OF the Sommc they have advanced to
proyart, which lies to the south OF
Bray.
All along the 50-mile front from
the region Of Arras to the south OF
the Disc near Noyon the effects OF
what was to have been the final
strike to end the war in a victory for
the TeutOns are only too plainly evi-
dent in the re-devastation Of the
countryside and the wreck and ruin
Of the towns, villages and hamlets
through which the armies have
passed.
westward from where the old bat
tie line reared itself the Germans
everywhere have pushed forward for
material gains. but with foes before
them who fought with the greatest
bravery and stubbornness and ceded
no ground unless recompensed at
nsurious rates in men killed, wound
ed or made prisoner.
1t is estimated that in the great
attacks delivered in mass formation
more than 100000 Of the nearly one
million men the Germans threw into
the fray are dead. wounded or in the
hands Of their foes.
About 25 miles represents the
greatest point Of penetration made at
any place by the enemy In his ad-
vance, and on the northern and SOU
thern ends Of the big salient he has
left his fanks dangerously open to
counter attacks.
notwithstanding the strength OF
tho German drive, nowhere has the
British or French front, along the
latter Of which American troops have
given Il good account of their ability
rs fighters, been even dented. Ground
has been given, it is true, but so
skilfully and with such precision of
movement that from north to south
a surveyor scarcely could have work
ed out more even line. Still intact
in the hands Of the allied forces are
portions Of the old line from which
Ilindenburg fell back in his "strate-
gic' retirement in 1916.
Just who is in command Of the
German forces seems to he somewhat
in doubt. Late dispatches report that
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg has
been at Dvinsk, IN the Russian thea
tre, and German war correspondents
assert that Gen. Won Ludendorff not
only planned the offensive, but was
on the ground last Friday personally
to control the attacks.
On the other battle fronts the ope-
rations continue Of a minor character.
but daily the situation in Italy gives
greater indications that an offensive
against the Italians Is in prospect.
Large reinforcements continue to be
drawn up behind the line by the
Austrians and Germans and the ar
tillery activity on the whole front is
growing more intense.
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