The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-06
GREAT BATTLE
STILL RACES;
BRITISH AND
FRENCH HOLD
The Germans Throw Dense
Waves of Men Against Brit
ish and French In Effort to-
Take Amiens.
Confident IS FOCH
ASSOCIATED Press.)


LONDON. April 6.-The Germans at
little town Of Corbie in the valley Of
the Somme, Reuters correspondent at
British headquarters reports. The en-
emy advanced In dense waves. The
outcome was not known at the time
the dispatch was fled The main Ger.
man thrust, says the correspondent,
toward the principle Amfens road.
(Assocfated Press)
Another determined German blow in
the great battle for Amiens Is being
struck today against the British in
the Somme valley almost directly east
of the city, from which the Germans at
this point are about ten miles distant
The attack on the sector OF the line
comes after the check of the German
left wing Thursday night in its pow
erful thrust at the French line between
Montdidfer and the Avre and the fail
ure Of the German right yesterday and
last night to make more than a feeble
impression upon the British positions
north Of the Somme
Violent Artillery Battle
The fighting in the southerly area
has resolved itself into a violent artil-
lery battle following which the proba-
bilities are that the Germans will
make another effort to advance from
the positions In which they have been
pinned by the French. No infantry
action occurred in this sector last
night except on the British front inst
north Of the Luce, at which river the
French and British lines connect. The
British took the initiative here and i'm
proved their positions near Hangard
by counter attack.
In the north, the determined ATTEMPT
of the Germans yesterday to enlarge
the upper side of their salient sue
ceeded only to a slight degree along
the Ancre near Dernancourt and struck
a rock-ribbed British defense at Al
bert. It was continued late into even
ing, but despite the constant attack
by columns in considerable strength
the enemy was unable to make any
more important progress than he had
scored In his daytime efforts.
The sarly advances on today's fight
ing made it seem likely that the op--
GRAFTON would be an important one
from Wire Vaire wood close
to the Somme the Germans pushed in
dense waves toward Corbil lying in
the narrow strips between the Ancre
and the Somme, near the junction of
these rivers. The advance appeared
to have its objective the gaining of
the Albert-Amiens road. which runs in
this sector just to the northwest of
Corbil.
On the anniversary Of the entrance
Of the United States into the war, the
greatest battle in that conflict is still
being waged on the fields of Picardy
Their great attack halted, the Ger
mans are making strong. but ineffec-
tual efforts to break through the al
lied lines or bend them back so as to
gain Amiens and complete the first
stage of the advance which began at
St. Quentin.
Tidal Wave Broken.
General Foch, the commander-in-
chief and under whose orders more
han 100000 American troops are ready
to aid the French and British. de-
clares that the Boche tidal wave is
broken. "All is going WELL" he adds
and expresses confidence in the fu-
-ure. AS proof of his statement is
the fact that in the past two days the
enemy has made only slight gains on
4 38-mile front and these have been
equalized in part by Franco-British
advances at some points.
French resistance broke the Ger
nan storm Thursday south of the
Somme and north of the river the
British on Friday showed the same
stern mettle before furious assaults.
The sudden switch in the attack to a
ront of twenty miles north of the
5omme may have been made to catch
Field Marshal Haig mapping. but If SO.
the attempt was futile. AS in the at
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