Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-05-28
U. s. OFFICERS
 BELIEVE ATTACK
 IS ONLY A FE|NT
Expect Fierce Thurst Will be Made Later in Albert
 Sector.

Washington, May 27.-Germanv ap- parently has launched another Ges perate attempt to smash her way thru the allied armies tc victory bo- lore American troops can reach the battleflelds of France and Flanders in great force
 A so-called press report from the British and French front telling of the new assault which may mean that the supreme test is at hand, was con veycd to President Wilson as he was leaving the White House for the cap- tel to ask congress for legislation to provide more money for the war. Later MT. Wilson went to the state. war and navy buildings for brief con ferences with Secretarys Lansing, Baker and Daniels. It was taken for granted that the primary object was to seek official news from the front. No official information had come to- night to supplement press dispatches.
 General Pershing's daily report made no reference to the drive again st the British and French. Army off cials studied press accounts closely for signs of the German purpose.
 Only Preliminary Move
 The fact that one blow was laurcn- ed at the southern end of the Picardy- Flanders battle line and the other at almost the extreme north end of tfc 20O-mile front was taken as direct evidence that tcday's attacks were en- ly preliminary moves in the German stategic designs.
 'Nfn nF hn IOfA A10 front to the Aisne sector of the soth would mean adding 40 or 50 miles to the fighting line at a time when the German army needs every unit it can get in centralized positions within the wide salient driven into the al- lied lines by the first rush.
 Officials here agree with French critics that the most probable place for the real renewal of the drive to develop would be in the Albert sector of the Amiens front. An advance there would menace Paris and the channel ports.
 One explanation of the delay in re- newing the offensive has been found in the 4O-mi1e stretch of shell torr roads over which the Germans had 10 move up guns and ammunitions be- fore they could resume pressure with massed power.
 Is Considered a Feint
 In the Flanders theater the org ginal advance was only 10 or 12 miles in depth and it was no great under taking there to bring up lines for new assaults. For these reasons many officers thought tonight. extension of the offensive to the Aisne theater was merely a feint preparatory to an attack in the Albert region or near Amiens, the point of maximum pene- tration, and where American units now block the road with British and French comrades.
 It was pointed out the long sweep of the French lines from Montdidler southwest of Pinon has constituted a great menace to the whole German position in the Picardy sector. Some officers thought the real purpose ot tho Germans was to crush in that French line by breaking thru behind it and forcing a withdrawal,
 Others contended that the new blow was struck directly at Paris and the long range gun brought into act ion against that city again in order to ofrce Gen. Foch to mass reserves on that side.
 Some observers are convinced that if the blcws to the north and south prove effective for few days com pelling reinforcement of both lines, the situation will change over night and the real weight of Germany might he hurled at the weakened center.