Show I PREPARE ATTACK ON ITALY p New Hun Divisions Arrive Daily to Renew Great Offensive I I I By Associated f tICU WASHINGTON WASHINGTO March 27 Prep ra Preparations tho Teutonic offensive on for or a Italian front continue tho the Italian ambas- ambas by uy cable from today tollaY advised d S sy was dally daily Home Now divisions arc arriving on this front from the Rumanian front and the Austrians have brought up numerous numerous nu nu- nu new pieces o of heavy artillery The Tho situation nJ at nt tho the Italian front Is tho the dry diry more Intense becoming ever every dispatch says It appears that the tho Aus- Aus tro forces force arc are counting upon drive In InFranco InFranco of or the German the success I tho the Italians before Franco France to discourage attempting a new offensive New Nev divisions aro are dally daily being brou brought ht to tho the Italian front from tho Rumanian duels aro arc growing Browing In front Artillery Intensity all along alon the mountain section of ot the tho front In inal Val Yal La and Astico The Austrians have numerous numerous numer numer- artillery ous OiLS new nOW pieces of or heR heavy Great movements movements' of Austro Hun Italian HaHan gamla garnia trop troops aro reported by In Val Yal Everything E aviators the part points towards a I. I now effort on through the break forces force to of tho the enem enemy front mountainous zone zono of ot tho the Italian toward the plains French Now Bear Brunt of Attack By International News New c ci c. LONDON March 27 The 1 Tho full force Corco of I Ithe the German drive has swung during thelast tho the I last eight hours from the British to th French front With Noyon Noon as a a. pivot the tho Germans are arc trying to roll roil tho French left southwestward upon the Com Noyon-Com- line with tho the object o of separating the allied armies and outflanking the entire entire en en- tire Fr French och army from Sols ns to Verdun Ver cr- cr dun at trie tte Fame ame time directing the spearhead spearhead spear spear- head of ot their wedge against Paris Pari The Paris war tonight admits that owing to the crushing numerical su superiority superiority superiority su- su of or th the tho attackers who aro are reinforced reinforced reinforced rein rein- forced b by fresh divisions dl the tho French have been forced to give ground Their line Is Intact however howe as Is tho Franco British junction The French aro bearing the brunt of ot the new onslaught ht to the east of ot Mont DIdler Didier two thirty-two miles west wem o oLa of ot I La Fere The British war sar office earlier in the tho day announced that tho the l' l French rench were forced to recede west cst of ot Roye Roc but bul reinforcements rein rein- are aro arriving At Lassigny due duo west of ot Noyon Noon tho the French have checked all aU German attempts to extend their advance The British line Is 18 stiffening hourI hourly Tho The series of or successful British local tonight showed all symptoms symptoms toms of or a n. gradual development into a a. I large scale concentrated counteroffensive i By International 1 News Service j PARIS March 27 The Tho war office to tonight tonight to- to night Issued the following to-I to The Germans throwing new ne forces Into tho the baUI have havo redoubled tho the violence of ot their on our positions to the tho I east of or Mont Didler Didier I I Our troops fighting with wonderful tenacity have arrested the tho assaults of the enemy who succeeded In advancing only because of ot great numerical super super- ion lorl t ty In the re region of or and Noyon r equally equal powerful attacks attacks by b by tho the cn-cm cn enemy have haYe suffered n IL complete check They broke down before the heroic resistance of our regiments By International 1 News New Service WITH THIS THE AMERICAN AR ARMY IY IN INFRA FRA FRANCE CE March 27 American American batteries are aro hurling two gas as shells Into the enem enemy lines for tor every asphyxiating projectile the Germans send over IJ Last st night tho enemy covered a cerbin certain bin tain American position with a gas shell bombardment for twenty minutes sending Bending over nine nino shells per minute Then the rate decreased d to four shells per minute for or twenty five minutes Tho The Americans stood to expecting a raid and a n. p of or two officers and and fifteen men mon wearing gas aK masks worked their wa way through tho the barbed wire and took up an ambush position pol- pol tion In no mans man's land Intending to InterI intercept Intercept Inter Inter- German raiders The They returned I however as no raiders rR appeared |