| OCR Text |
Show IS Washington Of fic i a 1 s Watching French and '? British Statements for First Word That U. S. : Troops Have Gone In. TRENCH WARFARE MAY BE RESUMED General Pershing Re-. Re-. ports Both Armies Digging Dig-ging In; Indicates Battle Bat-tle Line Up to the) ; Evening of March 31. t WASHINGTON, April 1. In the absence ab-sence of leports from General Pershing. Showing the disposition made of American Ameri-can troops by General Foeh, supreme commander of the allied ami American armies, officials here were. watching the Trench anil British statements closely - .tonight for the first word that . will show the Americans to be at the battle front. It is probable that not only the first news of the activities of Perching Per-ching '5 men in their new status will tome in this way, but that for some lime French communiques will give the American people their only information -on the subject. Keports from both Generals Pershing an1 Bliss on the progress of the great tattle are much delayed. Messages tonight to-night told of the situation on Saturday and Sunday. At that time, General iPershing saw considerable improvement ia. conditions for the allied armies, and The battle line in the vital sector from itDntdidier to Noyon, as he outlined it, ias not been substantially altered by subsequent engagements. Both sides were digging in, he said. North of Montdidier the situation was less clear. BOTH SIDES ARE NOW DIGGING IN. Officials were particularly interested ia French official reports of last night that the Germahs were digging in along a part of this hard-fought line at the apex of their offensive wedge. That Would indicate an admission that they go not now anticipate being able to burst through between the French and British armies, as they set out to do. No further discussion of this report luid come at a late hour, except General Gen-eral Pershing's report that both sides were entrenching. . GenerM Pershing's di.-patrh tonight indicated that the battle line up to the evening of March i, south of the Somme, was as follows: Hamel, Marcelcave, Aubcrcourt, Hangar', Han-gar', Drniuin, Meruiel, Nailly-Iiuineval, Sauvillers, Grivesnes, Cantigny, Fon-tainne, Fon-tainne, Mesuil, Lamonchel, Noelot, Or-viilers, Or-viilers, Biernaut and a'long the Oi"C to Barisis. FRENCH CUSTOMS TO GOVERN NEWS. It was f.oiutO'I out tonight that orue 4 ho American units have been nirf;l with the French, as it is asKunifd they will he, Freorh customs n:n to withholding withhold-ing rlcii'iKitions of units rnago'l, for jr; i fit-a ry ru?'n-t will govern news re-ni')n' re-ni')n' t hern until rieneral JVr-lj i n has., hud time to set up a nietho'l of as-ypmbling as-ypmbling and transmitting daily reports itf his own. With military t r-lnjra fh and tfd'-jdione wires :onest'd and with the entire com rnu nidation system en-tirfdv en-tirfdv in Fr'ri'h hands, it will be a difficult ta-k, offienrs beiievp, for A 'iieri'a n )i',u quarters in France to k-fp in elo.-r; touch with events. Some observers hern tonight, were inclined in-clined to look for another jdiase of flic German effort to" d'-vcJop on some tor of the line. wher' important ytratnie rfiilts rniht be obtained by a rjui'ik a-'-aiilt. Th'-y studied the line from the I'b-ardy battle ar'-a, north to tire roa-d, in an r-H'ort to sH-ft a poH-fjide poH-fjide point for such a supplemental movement. BRITISH LINES NOT THINNED. II v.;m :ir,yi:-l f j r IhuH f.ir. the". Iui'I I. n I r r i if, iri'!i':it; tl,:,l. tin- J'.rith'.h I', r r i - ri'jrlti j,;il , n Ihimi'-l oijl I', -in (.';,! I'. rjj'.vi'J" J'k'TVfK for III" I.;, of In'; 'Ili.'i-. Knim linn II v.iih 'i'UW', IV.I. .nil I llii ;iNti.! .il"'l .-I (...-- -jr...- I,!', .v :.l ;i ,;u I r.f thin Ii.nl ,,, , I '..',!. :.-'..;'. I nri'l wM h'.i'!in hm ' il l.'T tiiir.Tii I r j r 1 j r . ' - J In t h" '.,ii,ii,n I! .ii ).', " ' 1 iUt't-.m II... l.v 1 1. ,'l ,!ll.irn. l iliKin .1 I,; l... ,l '.' i I'.,M If,-.J fi"lri I, if r.jitr.,,, f,.,i,t v.ilh the r, ;., .- f fi-:. v.. i- Ihf l,u. ,.,h,l , . I r i :',,, i,f I ' ' 7, . ;. r, ,. I r, Ihf v. -I f n ,,f i- ':. ! ,, r . ;--1 ,1 i ... I , , r. . t .'' ii Ii I m ' t i . r . I Iron I i . i 1 1 i i , lot mi;. I ,., ,i : ;,: ..".hi.. - , ,.. ,,l ;, .Inn :i i'i.I I ' i I.I : in ! I..-.H Ii flic I. ... ! r ( i -iii.. i -' i. . i. - I i n " .... n. I.. I , tion that the AuM rians nre Catherine: for i a n attack. That in formation is aiso In the hands of the inter-ahied supreme war couri'il at Versailles, however, and t bp plans of General I-'och, w i thout doubt, take this i nto consideration. Manv -.f ficej-.H helicv e t na t the d ri f in I 'icardy lias abend v cost the Germa ns a greater wastage of reserves ti.ari thev could have been prepared to me-t wi I h-! h-! out drawing on every available four' " of j manpower. Fr that reason thev doubt tha t a blow at (he British lines to the north is to be expected. Fear Counter Assault. AM Germany's povwr, thev fee, j iom-mii iom-mii t ed to the effort in Pi' a rd v ninl the hold ui tr of the remainder of Hie line, whb h they dare not weaken Ikj extensively exten-sively for fear of a counter -assault by the French or British. On the fa-'e of the official reports on t ho pi o;t" h of t he ha t off b ers sa id j it was difficult to nee whv counter oj.. j eration on a tremendous S' .ale were n-d started. They ndudMed, howr-ver. that I manv faetors entered into the nele-l ion of the time for mich a move and addi-d i that orhv th men n( the front could be I awa re of the whole hi t ua t ion a ud re.i.-h i a wise coticl ii.-ion. |
