Show 4 t M I ERMAS MA l LOSE MEN MENAS AS LINE STILL HOLDS fl JI Bows W DESPERATE A J By International News New Service I LO LONDON M March 26 The 26 The he German tactics s of send sending ng troops into the the battle fire in In massed fo formation matIon has cost them staggering losses in the fighting which has continued night and day since the off offensive opened last Thursday morning A conservative estimate places th the e. e Germ German casual casualties i s at between r 1 L J I f and OO ana men io f By Associate Associated Press Pre PARIS March l The 26 The battle continues with great violence and the Germans are making still greater efforts along the whole front between Noyon and Cha Chaulnes the war office announces Noyon was evacuated by the French during the night The left bank of the Oise is being held firmly by the Fre French ch L LONDON ONDON March 26 Fighting 26 Fighting has died down east east of Roye and and Albert i e Field Marshal Haig Halg reported today The British have established ed new positions there ere North of the Somme continuation of the fighting was expect expected d but ut has not d developed developed de- de yet the statement says South of the Somme this morning attacks were were reported developing also against the French in the neighborhood of Roye and Chaulnes The enemy's losses continue severe He He has been obliged ed to rei reinforce his lines from all parts of the western western theatre Over seventy hostile divisions are known to b bd bs engage engaged d Albert is twelve miles southwest of Bapaume Bapa rr e. e It was t toward w tilts this city that tine tie only German advance recorded yesterday afternoon occurred Roye is seven miles southwest of Nesle which marks the farthest German advance in the present drive Roye is twenty- twenty four miles mites southwest of St. St Quentin where the lines were held before the the- German advance advance advance ad ad- vance began The Somme splits the battlefront in the vicinity of Peronne of Chaulnes Chaulnes' is eight mit miles s north of Roye twenty-one twenty miles mites due west of of St. St Quentin Quantin Qu tin and eight miles mites southwest of Peronne Seventy divisions according to most authorities would mean about infantry infantry infantry try or possibly men of all departments I Associated Pre Press FRENCH FRONT IN FRANCE By March Entire 26 Entire confidence reigns that the Germans Germans' Germans Germans' Germans Germans' Ger Ger- mans' mans last trump in the world battle will witt be overtrumped wl when en the proper mO moment lent comes The allied military authorities were fully cognizant that the enemy's supreme effort would could be taken to check the into the allied cause a retreat until measures irruption positions As always the attackers possessed the advantage of knowing exactly where the would launch t their leir onslaught while the defenders were were compelled to await development of the battle before meeting the onrush with counter measures There is every sign in today's situation that the terrific attack in which apparently somewhere in the neighborhood neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood of one million millio Germans of all aU arms are engaged is is' being slackened The resistance of the allies seems firmer and the arrival on the scene of French reserves sent up to the southern flank brought welcome support to the British who the first powerful powerful powerful power power- ful rush The German divisions which began what evidently was int intended to be an ran irresistible ible forward movement t were so cut up that they were replaced by fresh formations It II Itis is these divisions which have been checked at the positions on which it was foreseen by bythe bythe the allied generals that a stand would be made The ground over which the fighting has taken place possesses small tactical value but it permitted the allies to retire in perfect order It had been devastated by the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans before they retreated last year and the inhabitants had hadnot not had time or means to build it up again While retiring across what was almost desert land the British inflicted enormous losses on the enemy away thousands of lives in an effort to overcome over over- come cone the resistance he encountered When the retiring British reached the Somme and the canal they turned about and gave battle meeting repeated and long sustained ine endeavors erid i of pf i both Oth th i infantry fantry and |