The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-22
GERMAN DRIVE IS HALTED WITH
 TERRIBLE LOSS
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 my" says the war office report.
 During the enemys attacks
 attacks yesterday his massed in-
 fantry offered remarkable targets
 to our rifles, machine guns and
 artillery, of which full advantage
 was taken by our troops. All the
 reports testify to the exceedingly
 heavy losses suffered by the ene-
 my.
 f'No serious attack has yet deveI-
 oped this morning, but heavy
 fighting still is to be expected"
 Nineteen enemy divisions were identified in yesterdays fighting, Reu- ter's correspondent at British head quarters wires. He adds:
 'The whole thing is too big to be able even to sketch or vizualize easily. So far the enemy has paid a colossal price for such small gains as represent the fruits of his mighty eff fcrts.''
 It is not yet possible to give more than a very general and vague idea of the fighting on the front between the Disc and the Sensee, which continues Wlln SHdY4nB 1OIIu11CSJ dCCOIu U the accounts, of correspondents at the British front in the morning news papers here.
 The German attack made on the British frontw est and southwest of Cambrai evidently aims at recaptur- ing all the Hindenburg line, says a dispatch to the Morning ost from British front west and southwest of adds:
 "The German army attacking south of the Searpe seems to have delivered it's first blow principally in the tri- angle of the Arras-Cambrai and Bau- paume-Cambrai roads, while the Ger man army south of Cambrai is strik- ing against our trench systems in the region west of the Scheldt canal. No doubt the enemy hopes that the at- tacking forces of these two armies may succeed in forming junction and thus cutting off a considerable slice of the British front and taking back all the Hindenburg trenches lost ex- actly four months ago."
 Struggles for villages and ruined farm houses continued throughout Thursday.
 "The enemy bombardment," the Daily Mail correspondent says ~be- ban at o'clock iA the morning and at o'clock some of the German units left their trenches and attacked the British with heavy and light machine guns. Between and 10 the engage ment became general on front of some 25 miles.
 "The right of the German attack was aimed at Croisilles, Bullecourt and Lagnicourt and there was hard fight ing in a brick field near the first of these villages. Along the Bapaume- Cambrai road the enemy also att tackled and then toward Gouzeaucourt, while his left wing was pushed in in the direction of Ronssoy and Hargi- ] court,
 '"The British front in the area of at tack forms a rather sharp salient. If the enemy could pinch off this salient and run his line straight in a north westerly slant instead of having it run at an angle first north and then west he would be able to hold it with fewer troops. Also in pinching it off he would hope to surround and capture a good number of British troops. These. it seem plain, are his aims in the first stage of the offensive.
 f 'sThe enemy is trying to repeat on a larger scale the operation by which he won back some of the ground we gained in the battle of Cambrai. Then he pushed in On an angle of our front both from the north and the east. His two bodies of troops did their best i to join hands, but could not make it, ] though they had at first considerable success. Much the same design is fol- | lowed now. We have good reason to hope that it will be checknnated, as | was tho nrayio1rS onen