Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-29
SO ALLIED
AIRPLANES
SHOT DOWN
-GERMAN CLAIM
Berlin Statement Says Cap
tured Guns Number 963
and 100 British Tanks
Have Been Abandoned On
Battlefield.
ASSERTS
VICTORY IS AT HAND

Amsterdam, March 27.-German
newspapers already are counting
the German gains.
1T 10 self evident says the
Cologne volks Zeituno, "that after
what 10 now happening we can no
longer conclude peace on the
terms which we were ready to ae-
cept a week ago. The enemy
must be brought to submissive
spirit and forced to grant every
thina we need In the future, es-
peciaIly in colonies and raw ma
terials."
London, March 27.-The Ger
man war correspondents agree
that General Won Ludendorff made
the plans for the German Often
sive, the Copenhagen correspon-
dent Of the Exchange Telegraph
company reports. The general on
Friday was present at the scene OF
action In order personally to con.
troll the attacks.
German great headquarters, the
correspondent continues, have
been established In an old castle
near st. Quentin, which 10 visited
daily by the emperor and crown
prince.
Berlin, March 26.- Delayed
French divisions, brought up from
Noyon were defeated at Freniches and
Bathancourt. Busy was captured and
we are standing on the heights to the
north Of Noyon.
Our dispatch service has taken a
prominent share in the successes we
have achieved. Laboring untiringly
they have rendered possible co-opera-
ton between units fighting next to one
another and gave the leaders assur-
ance Of being able to guide the battle
into the desired channels. Railway
troops which carried out a ire
menduous advance from the beginning
of the fighting without any friction
and which are now coping with the
traffic behind the front, are WORKING
ceaselessly on the reconstruction Of
destroyed railways.
90 AERIAL VICTORIES
"Since the beginning Of the battle
ninety-three enemy airplanes and si1
captive balloons have been brought
down. Cavalry Captain Baron Won
Richthofen has achieved his sixty
seventh and sixty-eighth aerial victor
les; Lieutenant Bongartz. his thirty
second; First Lieutenant Loerzer, hii
twenty-fourth; Corporal Banner his
twenty-third; Lieutenant Knoll hii
twsnty-second, and Lieutenant Thuy
his twentieth.
"The booty in guns has increased te
9s3 and more than 100 tanks are lyinl
in the captured positions.
con the rest Of the western front
artillery battles continue, increasing
on the Lorraine front to grea'
strength"
LUDENDoRFF BOASTS TRIUMPH
Amsterdam, March PA srea
battle has been fought and victory ha!
been won. but nobody can foresee wha
will result from It," said General Vol
Ludendorf, chief to Field Marshal Vol
Hindenburg, in an interview with tn
correspondent at the front OF tn
Tages Zeitung Of Berlin.
PRAISE FOR eRlTIsh
The general praised the British TO
their tenacious resistance and con
tinued:
1.-THE British believed they could re
ly on the strength OF machinery. TIL
employment Of tanks and great mum
bers Of machine guns is typical o
their methods Of warfare"
The German infantry, the genera
adds, had only one nights normal res
during five or six days Of battle.
MARCHED At NIGHT
I'm a battle like this" he remark
ed, "the infantryman must risk hi
life not only once but continuousl.
from trench to trench"
German troops going forward to tn
attack on the British front in Franc
detrained far behind the lines, evel
behind the Belgian frontier, accordin
to the correspondent at the front O
the Rheinische Westfaelische Zie
tung. These forces marched for 81
consecutive nights. no columns show
ing themselves on the roads In tn
day time.
! The volkes Zeitung Of Cologne say
F., that, according to General Won Luden
dorff. Emperor William has been deer
| " impressed by the terrible devasta
ton in the battle area. remarking.
How glad we should be that on
country has been spared such terribl
things. Why did we succeed In keeI
ing the fighting beyond our frontiers
Because before the war We Away
urged the need Of ornaments. Whel
mankind changes these things vii
! also change, but first mankind mus
begin to change"
HoNoRS FOR CROWN PRINCE
Emperor William has appointed tn
German crown prince chief OF tn
guard grenadier regiment in recogn
+, ton of the good work Of his troops o.
the western 'front.' In telegram
the crown prince the emperor says:
The fine and great success whic