The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-28
Germans Open Great Attack on
the British Front North of
st. Quentin.
MAY BE THE SPRING DRIVE
Allied Commanders Confident Their
Lines Cannot Be Broken Seriously
-Teutonic Penetration OF
Russia ContInues-Ship-
ping Question Most
Serious - Dutch
Vessels Are
Seized.
Rx I. w. PICKARD.

we are at the decisive moment OF
the war and one of the greatest mo-
ments in German history" telegraphed
the kaiser to the Rhenish provincial
council, and thereupOn, THURSDAY
morning, his forces began a tremen-
dous bOmbardment of a wide stretch
of the British front north of st. Quen-
tin. This was followed by attacks by
large masses of infantry which were
hurled against the British front IN
| desperate efforts to break through.
The assaults were extremely cosby
| to the enemy and up to the time OF
| writing had been of little avail, Tor
though at some points the British ad-
vanced lines had been penetrated,
Field Marshal Haig reported that on
no part of the long front or attack
had the Germans attained their obJec-
| tive.
Apparently Won Hindenburg was try
ing TO drive in a wedge on each side
of the Cambria salient, and at the same
time his troops made vicious assaults
on the French northeast of Verdun
and near Reims, though these were con-
sidered as diversions rather than parts
of the main attack. The lines helu
bv the Americans in the Lorraine ana
Toul sectors had not been assailed.
The British we're in no way sur
nrised bv the attack of Thursday, and
their commanders met it with supreme
confidence. In every possible way, they
were prepared to meet the assault, OF
which they had had ample warning
Whether this smash was really the
opening of the threatened great spring
drive of the kaiser or not was uncer
tain, but American military experts
doubted it. If it were, said they, il
was the most hopeful sign Of the wal
so far, for it's defeat was certain. Ant
: such a defeat, they felt, would bring
much closer the ultimate triumph Of
the cause Of the allies.
: Intense aerial activity characterlZet
: the operations all along the west iron
! last week. There were numerous com
+ bats. in which the allies generally ha'
p the best of it, and the British am
s French aviators made many raids OF
f towns and military establishment
$ back of the German lines. MANNHEIM
D especially was hard hit by the British
d The American flyers also were yer
busy and won praise by their skill an
daring.
These developments lend backing t
= the statement of one war correspond
- ent that land fighting in France is ten
porarily in allegiance and that the allie
. expect to win the war there in the al
having already undoubted supremac
in that element. He asserts that
~ the Germans make their great drive
>, must be made blindly, and the allie
- will promptly send their immens
- navies of the air across and deStrO
the Huns lines of communications, o.
pots and factories and his entire
ganization of supplies and re-enforc
ments. If this is the plan, there Is TT
greater need for the United States
~ speed up it's tagging production of ba
- tieplanes. The Providence Journs
heretofore remarkably we'll informe
asserts that in this respect the Amer
~ can aircraft program for 1913 is an
an sOlute failure.
III While the kaiser delayed his big a
tack on the west front, the world III
waited in considerable suspense
TO know what the plan of the ALI
ny may be. This rests with the supren
council at Versailles-in which Anne