The Robesonian., 1918-03-28

mans began week ago TINS morning |
an the west front in France against
the British ..orces has been going on
without cessation and he Germans
have regaired much of the ground
they lost in 1916, but their losses have
been 50 enormous as to more than Off
set any ground gained. This morn
jny's Associated Press summary is as
follows:
The strength Of the German often
sive in France apparently is fast
diminishing. On the seventh day OF
the titanic battle there were strong
indications that the enemy was feel
ing materially the strain he had un-
dergone 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 Roye the French have been COM
PEELED to give ground in the. face OF
greatly superior numbers, the Brit
ish have repulsed heavy attacks, both
north and south of the Somme, and
also driven back across the Ancre
river the Germans who forded the
stream Wednesday.
The fighting still continues OF
:sanguinary character on all these
sectors but everywhere the British
ard French are holding the enemy
FsDecially severe has been the fight
i1c west of Albert, where the Ger
mans, in an endeavor to debouch
westward, were repulsed by Field
Marshal Haig's men with the heav-
lest casualties.
The British gains between the
Somme and Ancre regions are repre-
sented by the recapture OF the town
of Morlancourt and Chipilly. South
of the Somme 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
Oise near Noyon the effects of what
Gas to have been the final stroke to
end the war in victory for the Teu-
cons are only too plainly evident in
the re-devastation of the countryside
snd the wreck and ruin of the towns
villages and hamlets through which
tie armies have passed.
Westward from where the old bat
,,e line reared itself the Germans eve
lywhere have pushed forward for ma
terial gains, but with foes before them
who fought with the greatest bravery
and stubbornness and cede no grouno
unless recompensed at usurlous rates
in men killed, wounded or made prls.
oner. 1t is estimated that in the great
attacks delivered in mass formation
more than 5000 Of the nearly a mil
lion men the Germans threw into tn
fray are dead, wounded or in the hand:
of their foes. =, ..
About Is miles represents the great
est point of concentration made a
any place by the enemy in his ad
vance, and on the northern and south
ern ends Of the big salient ne ma
left his flanks dangerously open =
counterattacks which, II success1ul
possibly. might result in retrea
Greater than the 1916 retrograd
lloyement Of Won Hindenburg and nul
lify in it's entirety the drive that la
Eeen accomplished. 1t is not, I'm
probable that British and French re
serves and possibly American troops
known to be behind the battle iron
soon will be thrown against tn
weakened enemy. ~
Notwithstanding the strength OF Tn
German drive nowhere has the brl
ish or French front, along the tatts
OF which American troops nave gT
en- a good account of their ability
fighters, been even dented. GrouI
has been given, it is true, but SO ski
fully and with such precision OF NOV
rent that from north to south a su
veyor scarcely could have worked o,
a more even line. Still intact in tt
hands of the allied forces are po
tions of the cid line from when IN
denburp fell back in his Strategy
retirement in 1916.
Just who is in command OF the Gc
man forces seems to be somewhat,
doubt. Late dispatches report th
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg n
been at Dvinsk, in the Russian theat1
and German war correspondents q
sert that Gen. Won Ludendortf n
only planned the offensive but was
the ground last Friday personally
control the attacks.
On the other battlefronts the oTe
ations continue of minor chafacC
but daily the situation in Italy CIV
greater indications that an oHensi
against the Italians is IN pfospe
Large reinforcements continue 70
drawn up behind the line by the -
trians and Germans and .he aftliie
activity on the whole front is gro
ing more intense. The fresh men
ing sent to this theatre are salo ,
nave Deen Drawn HedVhy A'oAA w.
manian line.
In Russia the situation again
tracts attention, the Ukrainians
Bolshevik having recaptured Ode
from the Teutonic allies and IN
dition now hold the important toV
of Nikolayev, Kherson and Zmana
Reports also have it that the Coss
General Korniloff's troops have D
surrounded by the Bolshevlkc;
AS was to be expected, the Germ
spontaneously with tlfelr attacS 4n
France, reopened last week st str
submarine attacks against BRUSH
allied shipping. Twenty-elgnt n
chantmen flying the British rag y, "
sent to the bottom, 10 Of tneI oe
<4 n 1900 tons or over and II OF sl,
- tonnage. The previous week