Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-06
UNCLE SANS MEN
in THICK OF FIGHT
MORE THAN 100000 AMERICANS
ARE IN FIGHTING WITH THE
BRITISH AND FRENCH.
ALLIES GAIN GROUND
British Restore Their Lines South of
the River Somme, While the
French Have Retaken
Several Towns.

The American army in France is
fighting shoulder to shoulder with the
British and French troops who now
| are engaged in the titanic struggle
with the Germans in Picardy. General
Pershing's entire force has been given
into the hands of General Foch, the
new generalissimo, who is to use the
men where he desires.
More than 100000 Americans, fnten-
siVely trained and fully accountered,
are available for immediate use in aid
ing to stem the tide of the German
hordes.
The miserable weather which has
broken over the country proves no
deterrent to the Americans as they
pushed forward from all directions to-
ward the battle zones.
From the region of the Somme
southwark to where the battle line
turns eastward furious fighting has
continued on various sectors, but
everywhere the enemy has been held
and even pushed back at some points.
he continues to throw great masses of
men into the fray, to gain ground, ex-
cept an infinitesimal tract from the
French north of Moreuil. British and
French machine guns and riflemen
again tore great holes in the ranks of
the field gray as they endeavored to
press on.
So great have been the losses of the
Germans in front of the British north
of the Somme that Sunday saw them
unwilling again to take up the gauge
of battle. Along the Searpe the Brit
ish themselves went on the offensive,
and to the east of Arras captured the
village of Feuchy. On the southern
end of the line where Won Hindenburg
is endeavoring to pierce through to
the old German positions as they stood
before his retreat in 1916, the British
and French troops, fighting together.
have met the enemy in furious COM
bats, but everywhere defeated him
with sanguinary losses.
The town of MoreuiI changed hands
four times, but finally rested in thes
hands of the British and French, while
the woods to the north of the village
were captured by the French.
"In the bend of the line between
Moreuil and Lassigny the Germans
made frantic efforts to break through,
but the French held them in their
tracks and in addition recaptured sew
eral villages.
All along the fifty-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 victory for the
Teutons are only too plainly evident
n the redevastation of the country
side and the wreck and ruin of towns,
villages and hamlets through which
the armies have passed
Not alone has Won Hindenburg lost
arse numbers of men killed or wound
ed, but both the British and French
armies have taken a considerable
number of new prisoners and also cap
ured machine guns. At last accounts
he Germans had launched a fresh at
ack in the region between the Rivers
luce and Avre.
The reports from both the British
md French war office seemingly in
licate that the allied troops have
cached the limits of their retrograde
movement In any event they have
anceled the engagement Field Mar
hal Won Hindenburg made with him.
elf to take dinner in Paris All Fools
Jay.
On the other battle fronts the fight
ng continues of a minor character.
Though the maneuvers in the Italian
heater still seem to indicate the near
pproach of hostilities of major char
cter. The British troops are now
gliding portion of the Asiago Pla-
eau over which strategists have pre-
icted that the Teutonic allies would
ndeavor to pass in their attempt to
ain the Venetian plain.
The aerial activity in this region
Dntinues intense. Since the British
ying corps began operations there
ley have accounted for eighty-three
aemy planes and themselves lost only
IN.
Considerable dissatisfaction con-
nues to be manifested by the Dutch
overnment over the seizure by the
nited States of Dutch mercantile ma
ne vessels in American ports An
ficial statement says 1t was an act
violence which Holland will oppose
ith all the energy of it's conviction
Id It's wounded national feeling"