Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-29
ALLIES HOLDING
WESTERN FRONT
Have Checked Onslaught of
German Hordes, 100000 of
Whom Are Now Number
ed Among the Slain.

The strength of the great German
offensive in France, which began last
Thursday morning, is fast diminish
ing. On the seventh day of the titanic
battle there were strong indications
that the enemy was feeling material
ly the strain they had undergone and
that their power had been greatly i'm
paired through hard usage
The fighting still continues of a
sanguinary character of all these sec
tors, but everywhere the British and
French are holding the enemy.
The British gains between the Som
me and .Amore regions are represent
ed by the recapture of the town of
Morlacourt and Chippily. Souht of
the Somme they have advanced to
Proyart, which lies to the south of
Bray
All along the fifty mile front from
the region of Arras to the southwest
Ooise near Noyon, the effects of which
was to have been the final stroke to
end the war in a victory for the Teu-
tons are only too plainly evident in
the redestation 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 ev-
erywhere 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
usurious rates in men killed, wound
ed or made prisoner. 1t is estimated
that in the great attacks delivered i'm
mass formation more than 100000 of
the nearly million men the Germans
threw into the fray are dead, wounded
or in the hands of their foes.
Huns Greatest Advance.
About rs miles represents the
greatest point of penetration made
any place by the enemy in his ad-
vance and on the northern and south
ern ends of the salient he left his
flank dangerously open to counter
attacks, which if successful possibly
might result in a retreat greater than
the 1916 retrograde movement of Won
Hindenburg and nullify in its entirety
the drive that has been accomplished.
1t is not improbable that British and
French reserves, and possibly Amcri-
can troops, known to be behind the
battle front soon will be thrown
against the weakened enemy.
Notwithstanding the strength of
the German drive, nowhere has the
British or French front along the lat
ter of which American troops have
given good account of their ability
as fighters, been even dented. Grouno
has been given, it is true, but so
skillfully and with such precision of
movement that from north to south
n surveyor scarcely could have work
ed.
Just who is in command of the
German forces seems to be somewhat
in doubt. Late dispatches report that
Field Marshall Won Hindenburg has
been at Dvinsk, in the Russian thea
tire and German war correspondents
assert that General Ludendorf NOT
only planned the offensive but was OH
the ground last Friday personally to
control the attacks.
Frightful Loss of Merchant Ships.
AS was to be expected, the Germans
spontaneously with their attack in
France, reopened last week strong
submarine attacks against British and
allied shipping. Twenty-eight mer-
chants flying the British flag were
sent to the bottom, sixteen of them
being of 1900 tons or over and IL
of smaller tonnage.