Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-06-14
Fourth Intensive Drive
Lacks Force of Pre-
vious Efforts.
SLIGHT GAINS MADE
AT HEAVY COST
Indications Point to Renewal Of Effort
to Reach Channel Ports and Another
Push Against Lines Held by Brit
ish-AIIies Look for Speedy Launch.
ing Of New Blow Either in Flanders
or Against Amiens.


SCISSORS soon to have been def
initeiy checked.
Halted in their rush for Com
piegne and unable rapidly to out
flank the British southwest Of Sois-
sons, the enemy apparently has
ceased his plungino tactics which
began last Sunday and for time
threatened vital French positions.
The French official statement
say. that only local fighting has oc.
Cured along the front Of attack
during tho last few hours. Tho
latest German attempt to break
thru tho French limo lasted only
five days before it reached the
phase Of equilibrium which marked
the end Of the critical periods in
the Pieardy, Flanders and Aisne
drives.
Tho Germans have been held
north OF the Aronde and Matz
rivers 10 the west Of the Disc. They
have failed to make serious attacks
along the now Frsneh positions
east Of that river. Southwest OF
Soissons they have advanced ap-
proximatsiy mile over q four
/ mile front, But their pro0rsss Was
90 SLOW that aftsr the inesption-of
the finhtina little anxiety was felt
/ concerning future svsnts IN that re-
sion:
Sectors farther south, which In
e,ude points at which Americans
are fighting, have been heavily
bombarded by the eneny, but no
further infantry attacks have been
launched by him.
An inference that might be drawn
from the apparent haste Of tho Ger
mans in beginning their attack east
of Montdidisr almost as soon as
tho advance on the Aisne front had
been checked at the Marne 10 that
another German offensive may be
speedily launched. 1t 10 not i'm
probable that this blow will fall on
tho British front farther north,
either in front Of Amiens or in the
Flanders sector, where the Germans
may attempt to cut their way thru
to tho channel portsH
In this connection the British Off
eiaI statement speaks OF strong
local attack by the Germans In the
region Of Msrris, on tho extreme
western angle Of the Flanders
salient. This attack was complste-
" repulsed.
The Amiens front and the Scarpe
river valley near Arras have been
bombarded by tho Germans, who
have not az yet attempted infantry
attacks on the allied lines in those
regions.
Paris, Juno 14.-Fighting on the from
,f the German attack has died dowr
here being only local operations las
light, according to the statement issue
" the war Office today.
Between the forest Of villers'Cot
erets and Chateau Thierry (Which in
,ludes the sector held by America
roops) there was artillery fighting dur
ng the night.
A German attack near Anaheull. ives
Il the Disc, was completely broken VI
Boches Get Skin Full"
The position Of the latest Germal
effort after nve days Of fighting is de
scribed inelegantly but aptly by a gen
eral from the front as follows:
"The Germans got a skin full"
I The Germans are reported to hav
met with another failure. They hav
gained little and have sacrificed for ]
many divisions and without oringin
him any nearer a decisive result.
Such is the opinion OF Henri Bido
and Colonel de Thomasson. who Won.
be the last persons to hall a victor
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