Show Now Atta Attacking k ng Along the W est Fon i HUNS TWO THIRDS ACROSS COUNTRY S RECENTLY LOST Surprise in n Favor of Allies Believed to Be Due Within Few Hours Says London of the en enemy ene en- en cava cavalry I r The initial rush e envy emy y seems seems to have beer been stopped Military Military Mili Mili- tary opinion generally is that this f first ph phase Je of the great great battle i in n which ev even n more troops were employed employed em em- than In the ba battle tle of ot the Marne gives no Indication of what the result t will be Nevertheless sg developments are awaited by the allies without let lety All accounts agree that Germany i Is s paying heavily for every foot of ground d she has wrested from the allied armies Her tier casu casualties lUes are shown by the BritIsh British Brit Brit- ish official statement to have mounted I so high that every part of the western wester n front has haJ had to be drawn upon t to provide badly needed reinforcements reinforcement a for the battle area Field Marshal Haigs Haig's report reveals reveal s that more more than seventy divisions or o r between and men have hav already been beel engaged In the battle an anthe and d the German Germ German n read call for fresh fres h i troops makes makes makes-It it plain that the fighting g i if f forces farces are being rapidly us used d up p i In n I yie terrific and costly onslaught Forty divisions of ot the German reserve I I are reported have to-have to have been thrown into int o the line hoc as earl early as the second day o of or i I the battle batUe Th The rearward movement in the face fat d I I of or the Teutonic attack ha has had now not v I brought the allied armies well toward d the edge of their former battle lines inthe In Inthe i I the Somme area and in the deva devastated devastate tat d I Ir region glon r to the southeast I IField Field Marshal Halg Haig report the new nee c British line drawn somewhat to th the e j cast east of Albert and Roye Paris indi indi- indicate indicates cater cates the French fighting front as ex extending extending ex- ex tending southward from Chaulnes pas past t I Noyon oon which has been evacuated b by y the he French and then running eastward eastward eastward east east- I ward along the southern bank of th the e River Olse Oise I The German troops have been reported re reported reported re- re ported as rapidly tiring from their the r breathless plunge into the entente lines line s And they were evidently forced to take tak e f ft fir a breathing t spell last night opposite o the Uie British front as th the London noonday noonday noon noon- day statement reports the fighting t to have died down This morning morning- ho hoever ho ever fresh forces probably had been brought up and the attack was being resumed south of the Somme in the theRo Ro Roye e an and 1 Chaulnes areas |