Show I P FRESH TROOPS i r I f ITI 1 i To BLOWS lOW i u erman Progress Slows Up lUp Reinforcements Rushed From All Parts of the Western Front LONDON March Darch The 26 26 The ins ns ns this morning began new newis is tech and British forces south the th Somme By Associated Press n March 26 The Thc The 1 Berman erman losses have been so great that the enemy enemy- has been oo d to bring reinforcements o all alt pacts of the western t The The war off office lea h has s established It e 8 fact that more than seventy Ger- Ger divisions in the tho neighborhood 1 men have been engaged There ire is reason to believe important Ken will t be e recorded within within- v the thell ll hours winch Which may lead to to a betterment ette ent of ot the position of the ennies annles' which aro are checking the Ger- Ger STIFFENING enemy I Is fighting desperately time In the first day ls ds reserves were red reduced ced to two fifty-two 1 Visions 1 lons At the end of ot the s second cond ome forty divisions from the theler es had been put in Ks ler By Associated Press I LO DON DON March 26 British British f relIce re- re stance lI to the mighty blow west of ot rai apparently is stiffening The despite the new masses masses' of ot elfes which are arc being hurled into lG U attle line continuously are slow slow- B g Mf ut on some pai parts pacts ts of the attacking But before the the defense of of Meld Field s hal 31 il Haig Halg O the extreme north and in the tho teethe German German progress ress has been pr slower while around Baon Baum Ba- Ba um on the old oHl batU battlefield of the nee and east and nd nor nor of ot Noyon enemy has made mido gains gamu but only the c cost st of a fearful toll toil exacted hh guns and artillery Th Tha fighting lighting o ori on these V r cones conns con con- es ns o ot of the mos most severe of Arras Arms toe British line lino yielded fielded only about three miles at greatest greatest depth since Saturday west of the Somme th Oi of Peronne the Germans suf- suf d heavily In forcing a crossing the river and seemingly have not noti to-r to able to advance as fast as they i the river nver was reached I n the Bapaume region tho the Ger- Ger ve driven rv n a long salient in rd M Longueval and have widened somewhat southward in the of of Peronne However unless the lent ent is is widened still more it may mayi e i menace to the enemy as the I tish s line Ime still is holding well t to north and the south loty lying low lying ground between the me and the Oise Olse where th the ch bave come to assist the Brit- Brit JJ the o Germans have i le reached cached Nesle l the British and French fag i ug back under orders but resist resist- the oncoming enemy forces r 1 ugly Kr ri Around Chauny the Ger Ger- apparently have made no efto efio ef- ef to io o cross the the OIso Olse and strike i Wand and Fand the French north ot of the of-the A the Probably are falling back to it d the old line as it existed re the German Geiman retreat of last lastE cl d ch i E JAWS OF PINCERS 1 heir original nal attack the Germade Gert Ger- Ger t made ti tin th ir it strongest efforts w WP tva t t Cambrai and anden andell ell en n Sr St QUe in nd La Fere ere and forward or lio Tho sectors in thelt the ot he the lt W n I k IOwn pincers Ions The tit h however met Ihy ibY retiring 1 ih th h center toward d Conti n n s t 1 RESISTANCE OF I Continued from page 1 the Somme eluding the Jaws jaw's of the pincers and forcing the German advance advance advance ad ad- vance to take the form of a wedge I with a blunt apex and anel wide wings As the battle line now stands it is is not much greater in m length than the theline theline theline line which the Germans attacked but the enemy now has exposed his front to flank attacks both from the tho north and the south I In n five days the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans have advanced over approximately approximately I two-thirds two of the territory devastated and made almost a n barren waste in in the retirement to the Hindenburg Hindenburg Hinline Hin- Hin I denburg line a year ago British airmen continue to give I strong strong help to the infantry and artillery artillery artillery artil artil- lery and the latest statement reports that they accounted for sixty-seven sixty enemy machines forty-five forty of which were vere shot down The British loss was ten Entente aviators also have bombed Cologne Cologno and railway stations behind the battle line as well as airdromes airdromes air air- and billets |