Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-12
GERMANS PAYING
 BlG PRICE FOR l SMALL GA|NS Entire Divisions Cut to Pieces by French Gunners
 and Quit Battle. ADVANCE IN CENTER:
 ARE HELD ON ENDS Nowhere Has Defending Line Been Pierced, and Counter Attacks
 by French Drive Huns Back
 From ArOnde.
Associated Press Summary

] The third day of the German offen-
 slve on the font between Montdidier
 and Noyon saw the Germans still making progress from the center of i'the line eastward of the Disc river
 but still being held bask in their at-
 tempts to bring their positions south
 east of Montdider in alghtment. Ev- eryWhere they were continuing to pa V an eXorbtant price for the gains they made
 Having reached the Disc in the re- gloh of Rbecourt. the enemy, if he pro- poses to try to fight his way along the west bank of the streams soon l most emerge in force upon the low lands bordering the waterways where the troops of General Foch are said to be in strong array, both in men and guns, waiting to dispute the road to Paris.
 Employing 300,0O0 Men Altho nearly 100000 men are beine employed by the Germans in their effcrts to open way to the French capital their progress is slow when compared to that of other days. Mum erous divisions of the attacking troops have been cut to pieces by the French sunners and forced to withdraw from the battle to fill in the gaps with fresh men. Not an inch of ground has been given up by the French with out eXacting terrible toll in men kill ed or wounded, and nowhere has the defending line been pierced.
 The apex of the salient driven by the Germans is still in the center south of the village of Maruueglise. To the west of this point the Ger mans at one time almost reached the Aronde river, but were driven back TOT considerable distances by the French in heavy counter attacks. The Ffench also are counter attacking southwest of Noyon, according to the German official communication which says, however, that renewed efforts of the lFrench to regain lost territory were repulsed with heavy losses.
 Germans Claim 10000 Captives
 The German war office claims the capture of 10000 additional prisoners. which with the number of captives re- ported Monday would bring the total to 1S,000 in the phesent fighting. Since the new offensive began along the Soissons-Rheims secto May 27. it is asserted by the German official communication, that the army group of the German crown prince has talk en about 75,000 allied troops capitive
 Comparative quiet still prevails on the front between oSissons and Rheims, altho the Germans announce that northwest of Chateau Thierry. where the American Marines, fight ing side by side with the French have several times decisively defeat ed the enemy, the Germans have re- pulsed with heavy losses attacks de. livered against their front.
 Australians Advance
 In one of the most ambitious opera tions carried out in many days. Field Marshal Haig's troops in the Amiens sector have struck the Germans a. hard blow. It was the Australians who carried out the maneauver and they succeeded in advancing their line over a mile and-a-half front and took | nearly 300 prisoners including five officers. In addition, 21 machine guns and a trench mortar were captured
 On the Italian front there has been | no infantry fighting of importance, but numerous small affairs between patrol parties continue of daily oc- currence. Likewise the artillery of both sides are keeping up mutual 1 bOnlba rdmentS