Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-03-28
French and British Now On Line They Can Hold,
 Germans Weaker.
PRUSSIANS LOSE
 100000 TROOPS
Advance Of 35 Mics Has Cost Teuton Dearly, and With Flank Open to CouDter Attack Tie May Lose
 the Ground Gained.
Associated Press Summary)

NASSOcldCeu ffeSS Summary.)
 The strength of the great German offensive in France apparently is fast diminishing. On the seventh day of the titantic battle. there were strong indications that the enemy was feeling materially the strain he had undergone and that his power had been greatly impaired thru hard usage.
 While the town of Albert has been captured from the British, and west of Rove the French have been com pelled to give ground in the face of greatly superior numbers, the British have repulsed attacks both north and south of the Somme, and also driven back across the Ancre river the Ger mans who forded the stream Wednes- day. The fighting still continues of a sanguinary character on all the sec tors, but everywhere the British and French are holding the enemy.
 Especially severe has been the fight ing west of Albert, where the Ger mans in their endeavor to debouch westward, were repulsed by Field Mar shal Haig's men with the heaviest casualties
 The British gains between the Som- me and Ancre regions are represented b. the capture of towns of Mourlan- court and Chipilly.
 All along the 50 mile front from the region of Arras to the south of the Disc, near Noyon, the effects of what was to have been the final stroke to end the war in a victory for the Teu- tons are only too plainly evident in the devastation of the countryside and the wreck and ruin of the towns and vil- lages thru which the armies have pass ed. Westward from where the old battleline reared itself the Germans everywhere have pushed forward for material gains but with foes before them who fought with the greatest bravery and stubbornness and ceded no ground unless recompensed at usurious rates in men killed, wounded Or made prisoner.
 Germans Lose 100000.
 It is estimated that in the great at tack, delivered in mass formation, more than 100000 of the nearly a million men the Germans threw into the fray are dead, wounded or in the hands of their foes.
 About 25 miles represent the great est point of penetration made at any place by the enemy in his advance and on the northern and southern ends of the big salient he has left his flank dangerously open to counter attacks which. if successful, possibly might re- suit in retirement greater than the 1916 retrograde movement of von Hindenberg and nullify in it's entirety the drive that has been accomplished.
 It is not improbable that British and French reserves, and possibly Ameri- can troops, known to be behind the battle front soon will be thrown against the weakened enemy. Not withstanding the strength of the Ger man drive nowhere has the British or French front, along the latter of which American troops have given good ac- count of their ability as fighters. been even dented. Ground has been given it is true, but so skillfully and with such precision of movement that from north to south a surveyor scarcely could have worked a more even line. Still intact in the hands of the allied for ces are portions of the old line from which von Hindenberg fell back in his strategic retirement in 1916.