Show nun SM FIELD AT KAISER PAYS TERRIFIC PRICE FOR GAIN WHICH IS BE BY strategists british confronted with odds such as probably no single army has had to content with during conflict london with diun dead strewing alie battlefield a british fighting retirement out of the salient ap beirs to be nearing completion the germans friday morning renewed their titanic drive on the 60 mile front launched by fully halt a million picked shock troops designed to cut into the salientes sides and bottle up annihilate or capture the bulk of the british forces facing berlin claimed the capture of prisoners and a huge number of guns as well as tremendous stores of mater lal but this Is emphatically denied by the british relatively the abandonment of the wedge which Is regarded as a foregone conclusion as the result of the day s developments brings the ad vantage of a straightened line and thus goes far toward reestablishing alie equilibrium of the bral front it was one of the ugliest positions for defense on the entire west front a holdover from the reverse that followed bangs tank victory the worlds fiercest battle raged all day on friday the british were con fronted with odds lucli as probably no other single army has had to contend with in the whole conflict considering these odds and considering above all the ultimate objective the germans bad set themselves forces gave a splendid account of themselves fer rifle losses were inflicted on the dense masses of attacking teu tons but the onslaught was so concentrated so recklessly persistent that the sanest strategically and tactically wisest course for the british was to yield it was a fighting yield the germans had to wade through risers cs blood to take up he abandoned pul positions sold to them at prices extracted by knives bayonets butts and bare hands and still this battle between the esensee and olse rivers goes on arme geddon it Is only in its ambo embo onic stige whether this after all Is but a feint to camouflage camo flage the enemy s real intent la as much a matter of guesswork now as it was aher alie daiv e was ushered in with the first spring days sun on the italian front both in the mountains and along the a battle has flared up whether it Is one of majority scala or infantry maneuver to keep the british expedition there Is yet unclear lively artillery action Is reported from the macedonian theatre there is indeed a well defined theory in military quarters here that has schia daled tor this s ear an imitation of the past great efforts of the entente simultaneous maximum pressure on all fronts in the hope of locating somewhere some time a weak spot that will permit a break through lie counts upon the tonnage problem as an ally he feels that now or never Is alie time to mike the supreme try for a decision not only on the west front which is and will remain to the end of the war the center of the universe but on every other theatre aa well the kaiser lias hastened to the west front to witness what germin papers now freely call the decisive battle Is with mm is said to have returned for the mo mant to his first love commander in the field |