The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-10
HARD-HARRASSEO FROM START, GERMANS
SLOW down QUICKLY; DESPERATE BAIllf!s.
RACES ALL DAY AND into THE NIGIli
Usual Dense Mass Formation Used BY
Ludendorff in Making Attackers
suits Are Small Compared With Those
of Earlier Thrusts---Teutons Still Hope
to Create Breach Between Allied
Armies. @saa

Ludendor at yesterday hurled his legon into the
fourth great offensive of the year. ~@---+4.
In dense masses picked German shock divisions smged
top twenty mile front between Montdidr
and the Disc leg of the Picardy wedge The
lacking headed straight in the direction of Paris
In the first few hours drive though hard harTaxeed
from the start Soon became shove BY nightfa had
developed into gigantic battle which may well prove to be
the supreme clash of Teuton and allied reserves
maximum penetration of five miles in the center ana -
and three miles progress the TANKS the r
reward the end of the first day Of effort eaueAs
pretenou and determined his three previous thruss
Instead of breaking clear through and dashing With
wrwind speed through thny held lines and at small cos
himself the enemy stonewa this time that caught his
blow in the air and while staggering backward under the mn
pact quickly regained his balance and stood to-
It is too early to the drive checked But On tho
there are the strongest that Foch mak Hi
stand here and and that the foe persists in throwing
vision after division into the frayhe has half q
spare, it is said, then no more-he will have to sessn
through 1870
Briefly the net results of the days fighting
THE FRENCH LETT Quick to carry the blow, yielded
only advanced positions took its covering and
there did not bulge That is strongly held the
Paris office announced last night battle RACES on tne
Ribecourt- Lefrety -Mortemer line u.
THE FRENCH CENTER-Paris frankly admits press
ed high toll of blood the who reached the
villages of Reasons Sur Matz and Mareu and nine ana
half miles respectively southwest OF Noyon In the streets
of these haets savage hand fighting under
at last official accounts with the French front line units ha
Ting like tigers every foot As usual the Germans proe
ed farthes in the center usuahey found
themselves face to face with resistance will force a
drain their if they to keep Tbs ~
posess on n es.0 was S h IL. inc, ahov Z
dominates the two penetrated villages $3.50
THE FRENCH RIGHT-Probably was most successlNl II
stemmng the attacking tide Again and again the Ger
themselves into the fray, but they did not get further
the facing Beva Cannectancourt front There
they held. a1f
The latest push effort by the Germans to 1W1G
the southern side of their Pcardy line southwark
the La Fere Compiegne Paris rail- if possible at Compene
line reached closely threatened the French
sitions in the Compiegne Scissors Vers Cotteret triangle
would become unenabe and the Germans would have -
rael attacking Paris in the rails leading IN
capital from scissors and Compiegne. 49,
Successful in the larger outline of his present sratea
dendor would try accomplish before Paris what h4ad
before Amens rip hole in the allied front and sspaHe
the allied northern and southern armies But France po
fighting for Paris snap through grtted teeth They shlu