Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-26
DESPERATE FIGHTING
 IN NEW BATTLE ZONE.
Germans HurI Great Forces of 1ns
 fantry Into the Conflict.

With the British Army in France, March 25-(By The Associated Press). This has been another day of most desperate and sanguinary fighting along the whole front of the new bat tie zone. In fact, in the northern sec tor there has been no cessation in the awful work since yesterday morning. The Germans have continued to hurl great forces of infantry into the con- flict, depending largely on weight of numbers to overcome the increasing opposition offered by the heroically re- sisting British
 Teutons Brought Up Fresh Troops. | On the northern wing of the offensive the enemy this morning brought up additional troops after an all-night struggle of the fiercest nature and re- newed his efforts to break the British front in the region of Ervillers To the south. near the center of the line, an equally strong attempt was being made by the invaders to extend the long. i narrow salient which they had pushed in south of Bapaume, near Longueval -famous in the annals of the battle of the Somme. These places were again the scene of shambles in which the British fmachine gunners and rihemen exacted a terrible toll of death from the closely pressing enemy
 Pounding at British Right Flank.
 Still further south, the Germans were pounding the front hard in an endeavoI Ito push on and get a firm grip or INesle and swing the British right flank back, while the determined defenders
 were battling doggedly to force the lenemy back and reclaim the positions
 previously held by them along the river
 The decision at all of. these centers is yet in abeyance, so far as is known at this time, and the struggle goes or with unabated fury. The resistance o;
 the British gun wing has been partic.
 ularly spectacular
 Germans Crossed the Somme. On Saturday the Germans essayet
 the crossing of the Somme on raft.
 in the Nesle sector but these expedi
 tionary forces were caught in a hai
 Of artillery, machine gun and rifle fir,
 and virtually wiped out. Yesterday however, the Germans succeeded il getting troops across in this name and followed these advanced guard
 up with strong forces which pushet
 on in the neighborhood of Morchain The British were contesting the enem- advance fercely and, at latest reports , were holding the hard hitting enem , strongly.
 3 In. the north, in the region of Ervi1 : lers, the British las night were force
 once more to abandon AIory. whic
 had changed hands several times i
 the past few days. They fell back short distance, and the battle thi morning was staged largely along tn 2 Baraun1e -Arras road. The German Y employed large number of division in this assault, which in the earl
 hours was held off by the British gun : ners.
 : French Refugees Streaming Back. For the past four days French rel
 ugees have been streaming back frol 2 the evacuated towns in large number . Everywhere along the roads leading
 the front were to be met old men. WI
 men and children, all trudging stoica y ly behind their horse-drawn carts h household furniture, or even packir e a few belongings in bag on the ]. backs.
 ti It is possible today to give detai = of that most important phase of u r battle fought in the sector betwee n Gouzeaucourt and St. Quentin. IT
 country here was shruuded in mist ( Thursday morning and the German l, advanced without being seen. Stror e forces of infantry fiuSg themsely s against the British front line and af '- CT a fierce struggle broke throug : it st several places. They then co,