Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-03-19
uun Drive Shows No Signs
 of Coming, Tho All Sectors Active.
|NEW BELGIAN ARMY
 TAKES OVER SECTOR
poorpanizcd Force Meets and Re nnlseS Hun Administrations Continue Advance Into
 Russia.

As the allied world has day after
 day read the official reports iron:
 the allied and Teuton war offices in
 hope that some inkling of the real
 situation would present itself, the
 realization has come homo that tie
 American, French, British, Belgian
 and Portuguese troops are maintain
 ing their control over the front run
 ming from the North sea to Switzer- land. Artillery fire at some points i of growing intensity is reported, but l The allies have held their own ana l raiding parties are everywhere busy i in the enemy's trenches.
 The long expected and confidently l awaited German drive has not ms- l terialized, and the allies threaten to start an offensive of their own at i various points against the Teutonic l legions. There is hardly 2 sector on | the western battle line which is' not being marked by spirited acti5n, out | yerdun and the Vosges region are ! apparently storm ceaters where big
 events may develop. At Verdun the 0pcosing artilleries have been thun- l derlng for several days, and on Mon . day the chorus of the gun was kept
 up, especially on the right bank of l the Mouse. In the Vosges mountains
 the artillery fighting is reported to
 be very heavy. altho no infantry war office statements at Paris and l Berlin.
 lpBaH pue paz!ueSAOaH suH!SI9a One of the most encouraging fea- lures of the war news may te found in the fact that the Belgian army reorganized and ready for battle, hsc taken over the important coast sector in Flanders. This demonstrates that the past winter has been one of con structive work on the part cf the Bel gian ard allied army staffs. Tine latest official report said that at tacks by German shock troops have been repulsed by the Belgian.
 Heavy guns are batterinS the american secaors along the front. and many shells of large calibre have fallen. Here, however, the Ameri- can guns have replied with good eff rect and the excellent weather of the past few days has given American alrmen an opportunity to take pict- ures Of the terrain back oi the Ger man trenches. An apparatus install- ea preparatory to another gas attack on the American has been destroyed ooy American artillery fire, while american A raiding parties. following !aelr traditional Indian fighting tac- ncS, haeve kept absolute control of lines.
 Still Advance in Russia.
 |, m spite of the fact that the all- russian congress of soviets has rati- !,eu the treaty of peace forced by .ue Germans at Brest-Litovsk, the ad- so, sance or the Teutons, especially in sou'1ern Russia, continues. In south eln Ukraine the capture of the i'm pOr.ant city of Nikolayev, where sast sores of grain were repored to lase L been piled up, has been official announced by the Germans
 h, A.tion by Japan in Siberia is still ;nas Se,u m abeynace, and there is no Mhaicatlons of what may be done .;s .aele' Reports from Siberia con- ma. naue to be grave. Liberated Ger n,an prisoners of war are said to be ,%Operating with the Rolsheviki iiuaaers, ie and on March 1 participated na m battle with the forces led by leader. '3 "o'' '1 'e '"' ho. un the Italian front there have monl nvsm raldlng operations from the hn h,aNalns .a to the seas, and attempts rI riro uie Austrians to cross the Pfave '''r nave been frustrated.
 Airmen are Active.
 ,,,a9 me air forces of the contending n'es tha M have been very active during mo-, past lew days. British naval air ch;n n nave disposed of ten enemy ma tn'aes to S in the period from Thursday five sunday; Italians brought down Satn.h e enemy machines on Sunday; on ssvsn ssvaauay the French accounted for pl.nn la While four other German air destras, des, not previously reported, were manu muoyed late last week. The Ger ls lisa Claim to have shot down P al-
 machines on Sunday.
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