The Tomahawk., 1918-04-04
Counter Attack on Exposed Flank
of Enemy Begins, Bringing
Immediate Success.
BRITISH BEAT FOE BACK
General Haie Reports Bitter Fighting
Along Entire Fifty-Five Mile
Front With Heavy Losses
to Enemy.

London, March 3O.-The French
have launched a counter offensive
against the long exposed flank of the
Germany army with immediate sue.
cess This operation carried out from
Lassigny to Noyon, is against the key
positions of the German army and fur
ther successes by the French may
jeopardize a large part of the gains
made by the forces of the German
crown prince in their recent opera.
tiOns
Dent German Lines.
The battle on this sector continues
fiercely the Germans fighting with
all ferociousness. The French attack
is aimed at the center of the wedge
that the Germans have driven into
the Allied lines. The Paris war office
announced that an advance of nearly
a mile and a half on six mile front
had been registered by the French.
Thus the French have forced wedge
of their own into the German wedge.
French reserves are. reported to
have been thrown into the action.
British Beat Germans Back.
The battle ragged north and south
of the Scarpe all day. General Haig
reported the British forces had beaten
of the Germans with heavy losses
to the enemy.
General Haig also reported that
heavy fighting had continued along
practically the entire 55-mile front.
different localities changed hands
frequently in the fighting the British
commander reported Capture of in
Vulnerable German prisoners was an.
nounced.
Previous Gain BY Foe.
Paris, March 29.-Striking with al
most unexampled fury against the
Allied front near the point where the
French and British lines connect, the
Germans have driven a deep wedge
to the west and forced the French
out of Montdidier, 10 miles west Of
Roye which the Germans had pre-
viously taken.
Maintain Line Firmly.
The threat against Amiens In the
north seems to be well held by the
British along their front north of the
Somme where they have maintained
their line firmly at all points and
even have advanced 1t in places.
Prisoners and machine guns have
.been captured the London war office
reports.
Repeated attacks we're made by
the enemy along the valley of the
Somme in the neighborhood of Beau
mont.Hamel, Puisieux and Moyenne-
VILE. They were repulsed.
In the Noyon and Lassigny regions
and along the Disc to the east, the
French are likewise preventing the
Germans from getting an opening.
The force of their drive was thus
diverted to the west Of the Roye re-
gion and the forward push there de-
veloped probably the fiercest fighting
tof the present battle.
Foe Pays Dearly for Gain.
Paris characterizes the engagement
rs of "unheard of ferocity." The
French regiments, hoyever, made the
Germans pay dearly for every bit Of
ground they covered in their desper-
ate push for an outlet, the French
finally retiring in good order to the
heights west Of Montdidier. News
dispatches from the front reported
the line in this sector to be holding
well.
y ~Teutons Strike Near Arras.
The Germans, apparently wishing
to protect their right wing from
thanking attack. have developed a
threat on the extreme north of the
present front in the region east Of
Arras. London reports the beginning
of heavy bombardment of the Brit
fish lines in this sector followed by
the deyelopment of an attack.