The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1918-03-26
THE LATEST WAR NEWS

| ihE LAl ESI WAN NEWS
The Germans are still making a
| great drive and seem TO be gaining.
| The French forces have been com
/ PEELED to yield Laon, but hold the
/ left bank Of the Disc river. English
| headquarters are expecting carly
events which may better conditions
| of allies. The Germans are fighting
desperately. Heavy attacks about
Ervillers, completely smashed by
Haig's artillery. A new attack has
been begun by the Huns South Of
the Somme river. Estimated that
they have 100000 troops. Battle con
tinues with greatest violence all
along the front.
Throwing fresh troops into the
! gigantic battle on the western front.
the Germans are pushing their wedge
slightly deeper into Field Marshal
! Haig's line, but the advance has been
slowed up by the heroic resistance
of the British troops. who are bat
Ting for every foot Of ground. Ba-
paume has been occupied by the
Huns, but at tremendous cost. il is
asserted. The enemy's strategy seems
! to have been the "pincer" system of
attack, but Field Marshal Haip
| thwarted the Germans by retiring in
the center and giving stiff opposi-
ton to the enemy in the north.
While the great battle continues
along the British line, Washington
! is optimistic. Haig's elastic defense
and the stubborn resistance of his
men are hating the advance Of the
enemy, army officers believe. Conf
dence in the ultimate defeat of the
| German effort was expressed by Maj
Gen. Wood, just back from the west
ern front, and Maj. Gen. MacLeach-
in, British military attache. The
ultimate aim of the Germans still is
a question, army experts declare.
Gen. Wood recommended that an ar
my of 100000 be maintained
abroad.
Despite blockade and embargo,
the cutting off of all overseas i'm
ports and stoppage Of even minor
leaks through neutral countries, it
seems improbable that lack of indis-
pensable raw materials will bring
about defeat Of the Germans, in the
opinion of Cyril Brown.
Sixty-eight lives were lost when a
British mine sweeper struck a mine
md British destroyer was sunk fol-
lowing a collision.
Though Bulgaria now is sending
forces to aid the Germans in their
attacks on the British lines, Wash
ington is awaiting direct opposition
to United States troops before ue-
claring war on that nation. The atti-
tude of American diplomats is that
Bulgaria is the tool of Germany.
The old Russian army is losing its
prestige. The Soviet Government is
rapidly disarming and disbanding the
army and eliminating it from public
affairs. Soldiers representatives on
the executive committees of the
Soviet are being removed not only
in Moscow, but throughout Russia.
The new voluntary army will name
delegates to take these places. The
removal of the capital to Moscow is
explained by the Bolshevik officials
rs an effort to save Petrograd. They
declare that if the Germans approach
they will retreat still farther and
demontrate that the Russian govern
ment will remain, no matter what
inrOads the TeutOns NAV make. The
evacuation of Petrograd progresses
and every train out of the former
capital is loaded
The mystery gun which has been
hurting shells into Paris has been
located in the Forest of st. Gobain.
seventv-fve miles from the French
capital. The bombardment continued
most of SUNDAY. but traffic was re-
sumed and the Sunday crowds on the
boulevards were as much in evidence
as on other occasions. Paris newspa-
pers. while praising German ingenu-
ity for the perfection of the gun, in
Weigh AGAINST the useless b2rbarity of
bombarding a defenseless city. Air
raids in reprisal are urged