, 1918-04-04
U. S. TROOPS NOW
IN GREAT BATTLE
HUNDRED THOUSAND AMERl'
CANS TO HELP ALLIES STEM
RUSH ON PIcARDY.
BRITISH GAIN IN ARRAS
FRENCH HURL BACK ENEMY IN
DESPERATE HAND-To-HAND
FIGHTING.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Paris, April 1.-The battle is slack
ening, according to news reaching
Paris late last night. The attacks Of
the Germans have been less violent
and less numerous, and 1t has been
observed that the enemy is feverishly
digging himself in, particularly in the
neighborhood of Lassigny.
With the American Army in France,
April Sunday the British were
holding the whole of their long line
with strength. They had smashed nu-
merous heavy German attacks at va
rious points and successfully taken the
initiative on several occasions.
Paris.-Official announcement was
made Sunday that the presence on the
Franco-British front of Bulgarian and
Austrian troops had been established.
} The American army in rance is to
fight shoulder to shoulder with h
British and French troops who r
now engaged in the titanic struggle
with the Germans in Picardy. Gen.
Pershing's entire force has been given
into the hands of Gen. Foch, the new
generalissimo, who is to use them
where he desires.
More than 100000 Americans, inten-
sively trained and fully ACQUIRED, are
available for immediate use in stem
- a. - ~ $1,000 h1rlac
and large numbers of them, on rail
road trains and in motor trucks, and
even afoot, already are on their way
to the battle front.
From the region of the Somme
southwark to where the battle line
turns eastward, furious fighting con-
tinued on various sectors, but every
where the enemy has been held, and
even pushed back at some points. No
where has he been able with his great
masses of men to gain ground, except
an infinitesimal tract from the French
north of Moreuil. The British and
French machine guns and rfflemen
again tore great holes in the ranks of
the field gray as they e~ndeavored to
pass forward. So great have been the
losses of the Germans in front Of the
British north of the Somme that Sun
day saw them unwilling again to take
up the gage of battle. Along the
Scarpe the British themselves went on
the offensive and to the east of Arras
captured the village of Feuchy. On the
southern end of the line the British
and French troops, fighting together,
have met the enemy in furious COM
bats, but everywhere defeated him
with sanginary losses.
In the pend Of the line between Mo
reuil and Lassigny the Germans made
frantic efforts to break through, but
the French held them In their tracks,
and, in addition, r~ecaptured several
villages.
Not alone has Won Hindenburg lost
numbers of men killed or wounded, but
both the British and French armies
have taken a considerable number of
new prisoners and also captured ma
chine guns. At last accounts the Ger
mans had launched a fresh attack to
the region between the rivers Luce
and Avre and fierce fighting was in
progress.
The reports from both the British
and French war offices seemingly indi-
cate that the allied troops have reach
ed the limits of their retrograde nov
ment. In any event they have can
oeled the engagement Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg made with himself to
take dinner in Paris on All Fools day.
Maneuvers in the Italian theater
still seem to indicate the ap-
proach of hostilities of a major char
acter. The British troops are now
holding a portion of the Asiago plateau
sector.