Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-04
GERMAN THRUST
TOWARD FRENCH
CAPITAL HALTED
Huns Gained No Ground
Monday in Their Move
ment Against Paris.
FRENCH TAKE INITIATIVE
IN NUMEROUS SECTORS
Heavy Artillery Action Resumed
in American Sphere of Ac-
ton Near Toul.
MANY Hun FLYERS DoWNED
Lord Lieutenant OF Ireland Calls
for 10000 Volunteers In
Irish Division.
MANY Hun FLYERS DowNED
tBy Associated press.l


Monday nights report was the most
hopeful since the beg inning OF the bat
tic. For the frs, time since last
Monday II can be said that the enemy
gained no ground during the day" says
Reuters correspondent with French
headquarters in France
Although IT cannot he said that the
Germans. in their new offensive. have
been definitely stopped. there is never
thciess. marked diminution in the
speed with which they started out. and
their gains since Saturday have been
relatively small when compared with
those OF previous days.
And. according 10 the accounts OF
unofficial Observers, wherever they
have been able since tho stinening ot
the allied lines to attain new positions.
an eXorbitant price In lives has been
eaacted from them. SO great have
been the casualties suffered that the
Prussian Guards division. the pride
OF the German Crown Prince" is de-
clared TO have been withdrawn from
tho battle.
Particularly hard fighting again has
heen In progress between Sossons aut!
Chatcau-Thierry. where the Germans
are endcavoring TO push further for
the French troops almost everywhere
successfully withstood the onsiaught t,
but on several sectors themselves have
taken the initiative and gained ground.
As whole the situation along this
line is relatively unchanged,
The German War Office At last has
admitted that the allied line on the
west has been rc-cnforced by fresh
units. but It assert. that they have not
been able To hold tho positions 10
which they were assigned Neverthc-
less. the fact Is patent from an obscr-
walton o. the maps that al:n ost
everywhere In this region tho German
line for the moment at least. IS being
hard held.
SITUATION UNCHANGED
SINCE THAT OF SUNDAY
From -Thicrry eastward
along the Marnc and thence 10 Rheims
the situation is virtually unchanged
from, that of Sunday. The enemy now
holds the northern bank OF the Marne
for a distance OF about fifteen miles.
but rs yet he has made no serious en-
deavor 70 cross the stream.
The news of what il has cost the
German armies in mon Killed. wounded
or made prisoner In the present bat
tie is reaching Germany through a no
less authoritative source than the
semioMcial Norddeutsche Allgemcine
Zcitung. This journal prints n letter
from a German colonel at the fron:.
who urges the people to bear their
losses with patience and confidence.
Little fighting aside from the usual
srlnll affairs between raiding partiea
is taking place on the Flanders front
The British have carried out success.
full raids on several sectors here and
taken nearly 800 prisoners.
In the Italian theatcr the operations
continue of minor character.
AMERICAN AvIAToRS DOWN
TnIRTY-THREE Hun AIRMEN
American aviators arc giving good
accounts OF thcms selves over the battle
line In France. Since April "a. when
they first took the air in offensive op
eratioEs they have shot down at last
thirty-three enemy planes and them
selves only lost seven.
Volunteer recruits to TIE number Of
$4,000 for imm ediate service with the
Irish divisions are asked for by tho
Lord Lieutenant OF Ireland in n nroc-
)amation. After this recruitment. from,
1000 to 5000 men monthly are asked
for to maintain the Irish divisions.
Legislation giving land to men who
fight for their country is promised in
the proclamation.