The sun., 1918-04-01
British and French by Bay
onet and Cavalry Charge
Again Regain Moreuil.
HAD BEEN TWICE LOST
Two Mile Gain Made in Sec
tor Between Mesnil
and Lassigny.
TEFTON LOSS ENORMOUS
Eleventh Day of Battle Shows
Signs Of Exhaustion OH
Part of the Invaders.

PARIS. March 31.-The battle Is
slaekening. according TO news reach.
ing Paris late tonight. The attacks
Of the Germans to-day have been less
violent and less numerous. and II hes
been observed that the enemy Is
feverishly digging himself in, psrtic.
ularly in the neighborhood OF Las
signy.
The general impression Is that the
situstion Is most satisfactory.
Special C0ble Despatch 10 THB SUN
copvrioht. 1918: al rights reserved.
LONDON. March 31.--The results uf
the fighting to-day, the eleventh day
Of the tremendous battle in Picardy,
were most encouraging, the official re-
ports revealing the French reserves
beating back the masses OF the Crown
Princes army along the whole front
from Moreuit to Lassigny, taking q
number Of prisoners and guns.
Oemuin. on the Luce River. or
brook, about which the most severe
fighting has centred for the last two
days, with terrific hand to hand
struggles Of almost hourly occurrence,
was taken to-day by the British.
To the south Moreuil. an important
village. was the point about which 4
tremendous struggle centred to-day.
Four times the place changed hands
and finally II was carried by the
French and British. the latter aided
by Canadian cavalry in brilliant
: charges with the bayonet.
. Two Mile Gain by French,
! on the Montdidier salient also the
Germans met important reverses,
especially on the south side. which
| runs east Of Lassigny and NoyoH. In
| this sector the French recaptured at
, least four villa ages-Monchcl Ayen-
court. Plemont and Csnny. Also they
| drove IN the German line to a depth
: OF two miles or more. In these opera
! ttons more than 1000 German PRISON.
ers were taken and more than a hun
dred German machine guns.
| The Berlin statement contains little
l. information except a. TO yesterdays
fighting on the line from Moreuil
southward. Furious attacks by the
! French on the tip of the salient AT Mes
! nil. are said to have been repulsed. and
! also similar drives along the south line
! In this operation the French are strk-
; ing at the German flank III the direction
/ OF Roye. All reports state that tho
! allied front is being consolidated and
strengthened by the daily arrival of Ie-
enforcements.
| Where Americans May Enter.
| This part OF the battle front is Of par
! ticular interest because il il proba bio
that the American force, now reported
On the way to take hand in the flght-
Ing. Is likely to be thrown in here.
Apparently the turn OF the Allies IA
beginning. or has begun. The German
attacks In the Morcul sector were un-
diminished In their force and intensity
but II seemed that the invaders were too
exhausted to carry on other similar at
I tacks AZ the same time. as they have
been doing for more than a week. Mort !,
OF the Sonlme, Field Marshal IIaig re.
ports Tonight. it was quiet. although on
Saturday the heaviest attacks we're de-
lsvered in that region the Germans od-
vancing in four distinct waves Their
! losses in this sector alone ran into
! thousands. Near Serre. "a little north
of Albert, the British took the offensive
and in what is termed a local operation.
captured 230 prisoners and forty ms
chine guns
New Attack Made by Germans.
Immediately south OF the Somme the
Germans attacked In considerable force
about noon to-day and at niRhtfall this
action was st!ll in progress in the angle
Of the Luce and the Avre. one OF the
most encouraging features OF the stua
tion tonight is that the British and
French are taking the offensive more
and more and are making marked gains.
The only German success during the da y
was a minor one after heavy fighting.
in which they paid price out OF all
proportion to their gain. they won a
footing In the village of Haangard-en
Santerre.
In the lighting between Moreuil and
Montdider the French artillery. the
> famous 75s. did terrible execution amons
the Germans. who still cling to the
method OF attacking IN masses, In the
sector between Moreuii and lAeigny
the French took more than 700 prisoners
!, View of British Eipert.
I.ovat Fraser. writing in the Dali,
? Mnii on Germanys supreme bid for vic
tory in France. says:
| "Should the Germans fail to accom-
plish their full purpose this should ~
! the decisive battle of the war. II shoul'
| he decisive because they have stake'
| their whole position upon the result an
a failure. or even a half success. mea NJ
ruin for them. for their civil population
| Ia ycry. near the starvat ion point, ant
unless Germany can get peace now sh
Is done. That IL why she has throw
all her available military resources tnt