Show HUNS DIG TRENCH I ITO TO GUARD AGAINST GOU RUST Pershing Heading I Americans to Place in inI I Front Lines By y LONDON April 1 While 1 While the advance nd of or the German In Jn PIcard has come corne almost to a halt there has been age fn rt fighting on tho extreme western ed edge e of or the battle battlo zone zono Encounters in which large forc forces s have ha been engaged I have ha occurred north of or but there I I to bl bo be no decided advantage nd gained b by the Teutonic Invaders Tho They claim to have o taken heights and anil to lave have carried A wood In advance of or their line near I but tho British nay they have hae driven back Lad the enemy from rota positions they ha e occupied d elsewhere In this I sector The French lines further south Bouth haI have ha I stood tWin fIrm a against e assaults espe- espe daIly In the thc region of or Montdidier dier and arid I I eastward of or that place alon along a a. part of the line lino which was subjected to a a. terrific i strain for two days das late lato last larH w week werk k In Ina I a number of or sectors the French have surged forward and taken hard earned ground round from tho the German Germans and have established th their ir lino line solidly along the Olse Oise river rI Tho The expected allied d counteroffensive has hILs not yet et come come but bUL tho the Germans who are reported to be entrenching along the French front evidently expect It there RAIN HELPS ALLIES Rain n. Is delaying the German advance along the French and British fronts Wet Vet weather If continued would be bo of or Infinite value to the allies who are aro moving their forces and supplies o er solid loUd earth Instead in instead In In- stead of or ground which has been churned t Into a condition where er e every step elep Is besot besel by difficulties The chief German GermanS efforts apparently have havo been In tn the tho region of and t at Albert Around these places there thero has been stern storn fighting fighting- with the Germans hurling their fighting men at the allied i in serried Berried ranks which havo have been mowed down by artillery machine gun un h and rifle fire The effort In the h rt region lon l Is considered as being an on attempt h to reach the Amiens railroad which Is four or 01 five miles distant APRIL SIGNIFICANT MONTH c H p I The Tho beginning of or April a II month whoso whose I dates ar are written largo large on tho the pal pages 8 of or American hl history tor finds tho the soldiers of or orthe the United States hastening to take their Place in the tho zono zone of oC fiercest fighting There havo have been American troops In Involved Involved Involved In- In In the struggle In Picard the tho ho morning of or March tarch 23 3 but General Pershing now Is leading more than luau of his hi men men but Just how man many Is 15 as yet not known to a point assigned d to them ther b by General Foch the leader of or tho the allied forces In l France rance The These o men may even en now bo be In tho the battle line lino and America awaits news from them with confidence i that they will compare well with tho the veterans of oC France Franco and Great Britain SITUATION IMPROVES A s report from General Pershing to the wa wn department enl states that the situation along the battle line Is Improved He lie did lUd not an any Information regarding tho the movement of his troops It is thought Improbable that the German German German Ger Ger- man general onera sta staff will be he content with the situation as ns It stands today Many believe th- th there thre re Is In preparation another bow blow n against Italy Official reports from Homo sa say there has been considerable consider able ble activity on the Asiago 1 plateau lateau an an along alone the Have Plava river and that In Al Albania Albania Al- Al bania on the eastern shore of or tho Adriatic Adriatic Ad Ad- the Austrians have been rC repulsed after an attack on a position held by the tho Italians ital Ian ADVANCE ON TURKS I British troops In Mesopotamia I have havo added a new success to their record Th They y have progressed to a point midway between Bagdad and Alop Aleppo o If It the British can reach Aleppo and there Join forces with General Generl army which has been fighting Its Is way northward northward northward north north- ward through Palestine the they would be to cut off oft the whole Arabian peninsula peninsula penin penin- sula Buln from the Turk Turku and be In a po position to meet inset any Turkish attacks from the troops of oC the which are arc at present In the southern littoral of or tho mack Black sea ea The White Star liner Celtic i ha-i ha been struck by a n torp torpedo to while on her wn way from Europe to America It I Is not be- be Moved loved that he had ha many Americana on hoard board bot Russia and Rumania have hwe negotiated a tr treaty a t of oC peace by which Rumania will wi evacuate any occupied portions of or Bee Bee- sarabia and al also abo o strategic lc territory near r the mouth of ot the Danube Germany has hasSent hassent ha sent a protest to Petro Petrograd Td a against th sending of Bolshevik troops Into Finland I and ant threatening that If more ire re sent I there thero she will take rc the wl steps under provisions provisions pro pro- visions of the Brest le treaty Ir Jr Ir- Is reported to have been captured b by Teutonic prisoners of war who have h obtained arms and have havo been organized b by former officers |