| Show TIDE TIE OF FIGHTING SWINGS OVERTO OVER TO AlLES ALLIES Huns Refuse to Give Battle nattie lat nat Bat tIe tle While Our Troop Are Ready for Fray Dy ny Associated Pre Press Prel LOO- LOO LONDON April 2 With 2 With tho the passing o of or f the thirteenth day of ot the new battle of o f the there Mme came Increasing evi- evi d that the great CEnt German machine with which It I wn Was V Intended to crush cruh crUh the a allied tine line lne ha has ha almost almOt utterly spent pent Itself Where previously the Germans had hd t thrown n men Into tho the fray r not counting the te prodigious wast wastage e In killed or wounded Tuesday aw sass' lW them decline anywhere any nn- where to give 1 battle On the th contrary i In n what little fighting occurred the BritIsh lInt Brit I Ish sh and ant French troops took tok the initiative Thus Tu II it i seems apparent with wih the re- re s servo ervo seo forces force of the tho entente virtually In Intact Intact In- In st t tact act and with wih tho the added weight General I troops trop will wl give them thEm the t turn urn In the tho tide of oC the tho battle Otle J c Is la at nt hand CASUALTIES SEVERE While admittedly both the French and British armies have havo o suffered rather seyen 10 ee- ee casualties the they stood to yen vero er as 09 Ito valiantly t their heir task of oC Impeding the Germans and making them pay lD 11 an unheard of price for or ever every foot ot of oC ground gained their re reserves ze- ze s serves erves have hac been ben conserved with wih lh the ut utmost ut- ut most moat mot care caro behind the tho lines for the fateful fateful fate tate ful time when hen tho the withering fire of oC th thic th allied guns uns and anti machine guns n should to have blighted the German Germ hordos as 39 bring brio more equality In aten strength th to tho the fighting forces Corce And Antl all ni along the British Brit bib ish Ith and nd French commanders commander have havo o lua not l left JeU outside their calculations that staunch band of ot Americans exceeding men fully trained and ad equipped d dand and anxious to lend their aid nd In defeating defeatIng defeat defeat- In Ing tho the Germans Germans- Dally Daily Daly the tho German Germa J losses In m men n killed d dor or wounded continue to aU augment ent aa as de details do- do tails aro are obtained from tho the Germans Germa made prisoner Somo Saro dl divisions lost host an as high as 70 per por cent of ot their effectives es us M thc they char charged ed In mass maas formation against tn t tho the British and French Fench machine G gunners and riflemen Companies withdrew front fron i tho fighting with wih their combative strength reduced to forty fort men J LITTLE CHANGE SHOWN j The Tho latest accounts show chow no Important ant tant new no change chango In the hattie battle baUe front Only minor operations took tok place on that portion porton of tho line south couth of or Arras Aas held by b tho the British and antl little aside from artillery ar at- a- a tillery duels occurred between the tho French and tho the Germans rm ns further south Th The fighting between th the tho big guns rM was l particularly particularly par par- fl- fl heavy between tween le and Noyon royon tho the battle line lino lne bends bencs eastward east ward which la iii a 0 dan danger dang er spot of oC great grut Importance to tho the Germans tho the breaking through of ot which h by the French Fench would necessitate nc a n rapid withdrawal of ot the tho Germans tor eastward from tho the sec sac C Thic Germans have been bombarding j British positions In Belgium p par lieu cu- cu at nt and along the J ridge Bad weather Is a again ain hindering opera opera- oper- oper lions tons In the tho Italian nn theatre theatre In ha Palestine the tho British forces force which penetrated Turkish territory northeast of oC Jericho have havo successfully cal carried d out their objective In cutting the railway an now havo have b begun Jn to retire toward Es SaIL A largo large number of or additional addi prisoners and gns guns machine guns n nand and other war stores have havo o h been boen taken by the British Armenian and Georgian Inhabitants of J tho three o Caucasus GeorJa districts turned over ocr overto overto I J to Turkey In accordance with wih tho the recent L peace treaty between Russia and the tho 11 central powers power kayo havo formed an nn army to I defend themselves n against the tho Turks who have begun tho the military occupation L Lot La of ot Datum Batum Krs Kars and Adah il |
