The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-03-29
Hun DEAD STREW
FIELD At CAMBRIA
KAISER PAYS TERRIFIC PRICE
FOR GAIN WHICH rs BE-
LlTTLED BY sTRATEGfsTs.
British Confronted With Odds Such as
Probably No Single Army Has
Had TO Content With
During Conflict.

| London With Hun dead strewlng
the battlefield, British fighting retire
ment out Of the Cambria Salient APP
pears to be nearing completion.
The Germans Friday morning re-
newed their titanic pincer drive on the
50-mlle front, launched by fully half a
million picked 'shock troops" designed
to cut into the salient's sides and bot
tie up, annihilate or capture the bulk
of the British forces facing Cambria.
Berlin claimed the capture of 10000
| prisoners and huge number of guns,
as well as tremendous stores of mater
lal. But this is emphatically denied
by the British.
Relatively, the abandonment of the
Cambria wedge, which is regarded as
a foregone conclusion, as the result of
the days developments, brings the adj
vantage of a Strengthened line and
thus goes far toward re-establishing
the strategical equilibrium of the Cam
brai front. 1t was one of the ugIiest
positions for defense on the entire west
front, a holdoyer from the reverse that
followed Bing's tank" victory.
The worlds fiercest battle ragged all
day on Friday. The British were con-
fronted with odds such as probably no
other single army has had to contend
with in the whole conflict. Considering
these odds, and considering above all
the ultimate objective the Germans had
cot hnt
splendid account of themselves. Ter
rife losses were inflicted on the dense
onsurging masses Of attacking Teu-
tons.
But the Teuton onslaught was so
concentrated, so recklessly persistent
that the sanest strategically and tacti-
cally wisest course for the British was
to yield. 1t was fighting yield; the
Germans had to wade through rivers
of blood to take up the abandoned pull
verified positions sold to them at prices
extracted by knives, bayonets, rifle
butts and bare hands
And still this battle between the
Sensee and Disc rivers goes on. Arme-
geddon, it seems, is only in it's embry-
onic stage. Whether this, after all, is
but a feint to camoflage the enemy's
real intent, is as much a matter of
guesswork now, as it was wheR tile
Hindenburg drive was ushered in with
the first spring days sun.
On the Italian front, both in the
mountains and along the Pave, bat
tie has fiared up; whether it is one of
majority scale or infantry maneuver to
keep the British expedition there is
yet unclear
Lively artillery action is reported
from the Macedonian theatre.
There Is, indeed, we'll defined
theory in military quarters here that
Hindenburg has scheduled for this year
an imitation Of the past great Efforts
Of the entente: Simultaneous maximum
pressure on all fronts in the hope, of
locating somewhere some time a weak
spot that will permit a break through.
He counts upon the tonnage problem as
an ally. He feels that now or never is
the time to make the supreme try for
a decision not only on the west front,
which Is and will remain to the end of
the war the center of the universe, but
ON every other theatre as well.
The kaiser has FASTENED to the west
front to witness what German papers
now freely call "the decisive battle"
Ludendorff is with him. Hindenburg
is said to have returned for the mo-
ment, to his FIRST love-" commander in
the field.