Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1918-03-27
BRITISH LINES ARE
HOLDING FAST.
Germany's Great Offensive is on but
Has Been Checked.-Defeat Stares
the Kaiser in the Faee.-His Loses
Are Appalling.
PARIS IS BOMBARDED
BY 7O-MILE GUNS.
The Nations Cry For Their Lost Child
rem and Will Not Be ComfOrted.-
When, Oh When, Will the Slaughter
End?

The much heralded German often
Sive commenced last Thursday on the
western front and has been raging
with undated fury both day and
night since then. Terrible has been
the onslaught and most valiant and
glorious has been the defense The
Kaiser it seems is stalking all in one
supreme effort to smash the British
lines. and is sacrificing human lives
without stint. A million men on each
side are engaged in deadly combat and
powerful guns rip and roar continually,
their reverberatiOns being distinctly
heard even in Old England. But the
Kaiser will not succeed According to
the latest reports the British lines,
though driven far back at many points,
are holding well and have not yet been
pierced The tide of battle appears
now to be turning against the advanc-
ing German legiOns The German
casualties for the week are believed to
be more than 100000. The losses of
the British and French have also been
large. Americans are reported to be
taking part in the great battle and
acquitting themselves with valor The
resistance which has been offered by
the allied armies to the German
advance constitutes, one of the most
heroiss pages i'll the annals of warfare.
The result of the battle is still in
allegiance.
Foe Pays Awful Toll to British.
Wfh the British Army in France,
March 26.-Most sanguinary and des-
perate fighting continues along the
whole front Of the new battle zone
In fact in the northern sector there
has been no cessation in the awful
work since Sunday morning.
The Germans have continued TO-
hr-l great forces Of infantry into the
conflict. depending largely on weight
Of numbers to overcome the :ncreas-
ing opposition offered by the heroicaI-
ly resisting British.
Heavy Attacks at Three Points.
On the northern wing of the often
sive the enemy brought up addition
al troops after an all night strug-
gle of the fercest nature and renewed
his efforts to break the British front
in the region of Evillers. To the south
near the center of the line an equal
~ strong attempt is being made by
the invaders to extend the long mar
row salient which they had pushed in
south Of Bapaume, near LOngueyal-
famous in the annals of the battle OF
the Somme. These places were again
the scene OF shambles in which the
British machine gunners and rifle
men exacted a terrible toll of death
from the closely pressing enemy. Still
further south the Germans were pound
ing the front hard in an endeavor to
push on and get a firm grip on Neise
and swing the British right flank
back while the determined defenders
were battling doggedly to force the
enemy back and reclaim the positions
previously held by them along the
river.
Decision In Allegiance.
The decision at all of these cen
tiers is yet in allegiance, so far as is
known at this time and the struggle
goes on with unabated fury.
The battle on the historic ground
about Longueval was perhaps the most
spectacular Of any along the front. It
was day for machine gunners and
infantry. The Germans were pursu-
ing their tactics of working forward
in massed formation and the British
rapid-frer spads and rifemen were
reaping a horrid harvest from their
positions on the high ground.
notwithstanding their terrible los
ses the Germans kept coming On. fill
ing in the place of those who had
fallen and pressing their attack The
British artillery in the meantime
poured In perfect rain of shells on
the enemy, carrying havoc into tbs
ranks Of the enemy. In this section
the Germans were operating without
the full support of their guns because
of their rapid advance.
In the north, in the region Of ErviI-
lers, the British last night were forced
once more to abandon Mory, which
had changed hands several times In
the last few days. They fell back :or
a short distance, and the battle was
staged largely along the Bapaume-Ar-
ras road. The Germans employed
large number of divisions in this a.
sault which in the early hours was
held by the British gunners.