Show ENEMY EFFORT TO CROSS OISE IS S FOILED GROUND SIRE lN N WITH HUN DEAD I I Dy By Associated Prel Press WITH THE FRENCH An t IN TN It FRANCE Sunday 3 March arch 31 A n-A A daring attempt b by the Germans to cross the Olse OI toda today and form a bridgehead permitting permitting per per- of ot advances was easily 51 I frustrated b by th the French Frencl One of oC the I famous storm lons batt battalions succeeded In inI I getting over near Chauny ChaUD but hut never re returned re- re tur turned ea It I was almo almost t entirely There Thero remained only about I unwounded men whom tho the French took prisoner Nearly all al tho the i bridges crossing the Olao Oiso Olf have hn been detro destroyed ed and th the French hold strong on the southern outher bank banle while alt all i fords are covered by artillery arten ar ar- ar- ar tillery ten More rore to the north In tho the r region lon I of lor ul the Germans German for or tho moment at nt least loaM appear to have ha renounced their general attacks tacks and resorted reported to local actions Two of or these were extremely j violent between e and the Somme The They came mo against the sternest resistance from the tue French French who re reI repulsed re- re pulsed d them after very cr severe fighting Oth Other r attacks occurred on the right bank of or the about tho the Fame same pe period pe- pe failure of the day and the these e also alo met mot with lh 70 HUN PRISONERS S. S Sanguinary engagements In which the combatants again came to close clo fl fighting and ald individual combats took place pineo about the Lassigny ny sector ector Hero the French Fench field artillery artier caught tho the advancing German columns under tinder unter a a tempest of shells which drove them back b but t only tho the ground Jound was strewn with lh hundreds hundred of or bodies bodle At two German Gorman I dl divisions lons which had received strict orders to ex execute ex- ex an advance whatever the cost COt and I capture a height found themselves l es confronted confronted confronted con con- fronted b by a French Fench division which would not give wa way before before- tho the fury fUr of oC the German attack For a moment the I French were ere forced back bac but took tool breath and came at tho the enemy again with such a a rush that the Germans were driven from tho height leaving leavin iod 00 prisoners pris pris- Including twenty officers in tho the hands of the tho French WALL OF ALLIED TROOPS At no period of oC the tho war liaR has the tho fightIng tight fight Ing big been so fierce Time The Germans Intended in intended tn- tn tended at any cost to reach and de destroy tho railroad communication at Amiens J connecting the north and south Tora Today the eleventh day dy of the tho battle the they find before them a i solid soUd wan wall of allied troops which dai dally Is 18 becoming firmer as 19 artillery artler ar ar- ar- ar tillery Is advancing ad from all al directions to support the infantry which has hS stood the entire entre shock up to the present A word must be said for the allied aled aviators av RV- av- av who from I the he beginning of the battle batte have worked incessantly taking the of or c al cavalry for and often oen descending to an altitude of or ofa i a 1 hundred feet or less leas lets to ck att attack with wih ith I machine tn s-tn guns tho the advancing Infantry Their daring arIng seemed f med to have an almost I paralyzing effect on th tho German foot but often when the airmen re returned ro- ro I turned to tho the airdromes to obtain more ammunition In tn VIA hn S their wih airplanes I were found I I I GERMAN CERMAN TANKS TANKS TANKS- SHOW SHOW SHOW- UP I It appears that certain of tho the German GOlman forces possess poes many man tanks but so 90 far thor they have ha b been en utilized very little littie A captured order ordel sowA that fh five of or th these eo were placed d at the disposal 1 of one division divi divi- sion while prisoners declare that a a. largo large number of or tanks have ha e been constructed since I last st fal fall These les comprise small tanks ten tons ton In weight and eight meters lon long three meters wide and three and a half bait hl high h. h and land crul cruisers er fourteen meters lon long four wide and four high with a speed of from seven senn to fifteen ff- ff if- if teen kilometers They are armed with wih cannon ennon and machine guns as well 1 an nR flame name projectors Tho They are provided with wih doors and md apertures which can be hermetically closed so as to allow them to pass l ough S gas S clouds It I Is believed that thal the Germans Germane Intend waves va to use thee tanks to follow the first frt I I |