The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-03-28
British and French Though Still
Giving Ground Preserve United
Front Intact.
HEAVY TOLL ExACTED
Germans Pay Dearly for Gains All Re.
ports Agree-Seventy Divisions or
Nearly Million Engaged-Enemy
Troops firing.

London, March 27.-British and
French armies in northern France,
although still giving ground at points
before the desperate German drive,
are preserving their united front III
tact and are apparently awaiting the
opportune moment for the delivery
Of counter-blow to dispel the Ger
man dream of world domination.
Big events are impending in the
immediate future, at any rate. Adj
vices from the front indicate that
these are expected to develop favor
ably to the Allies, probably within
the next few hours.
All accounts agree that Germany
is paying heavily for every foot Of
ground she has wrested from the Al
lied armies. Her casualties are
shown by the British official state
ment to have mounted so high that
every part of the western front had
to be drawn upon to provide badly
needed reinforcements for the battle
front
Germans Use Nearly Million.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's
report reveals that more than 70 di-
visions, between 100000 and 100000
men, already have been engaged in
the battle on the German side and
the widespread call for fresh troops
makes it plain that the fighting fore
es are being rapidly used UP on the
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divisions of the German reserves are
reported to have been thrown into
battle line as early as the second day
Of the battle
Allies Draw New Lines.
The rearward movement ip the face
Of the Teutonic attack now has
brought the Allied armies well toward
the edge of their former battleline
in the Somme area and in the deyast,
ated region southeast.
Haig reports the new British line
drawn somewhat to the east on AL.
11ss ertt anu Roye. Paris indicates the
French fighting front as extending
southwark from Chaulnes, past Noy-
On, which has been EVACUATED by the
French, and then running eastward
along the southern bank of the river
Disc.
German Troops firing.
| The German troops have been re-
ported as rapidly firing and they
were evidently forced to take a
breathing spell opposite the British
front, as the London noon statement
reports the fighting to have died
down. This morning, however, fresh
forces probably had been brought up
and the attack was being resumed
south Of the Somme in the Roye and
Chaulnes areas.
Disc Strongly Held.
It is in this sector and in the Noyon
region that the German wedge is be.
Ing driven in hardest and it is here
or on the line to the east, should the
Germans further expose their left
wing, that the weight of the expected
counterblow may fall.
The French on their line are hold
ing the line of the Disc strongly.
Their artillery is cutting huge swaths
IN the German columns and the
French infantry is making frequent
counterattacks infiicting heavy losses
IN the Germans and retarding their
advance.
British Superior in Air.
The British evidently are maintain
ing their marked superiority in the
air on the battlefront and are throw
ing the German supply stations and
lines of communication in the rear
INTO confusion by air ATTACKS at close
range.