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Show oo IT MPORTANT jj Germans Consider Entente ff Plans Foiled and Already f Brought to Standstill. I OF ONLY LOCAL VALUE I Does Not Affect in Any De gree the Stragetic Plans . of Hindenburg. COPENHAGEN, April 12, via London, Lon-don, 8:55 a. m. The battle of Arras, in the opinion of the German press, .1 Is an event of only local importance, I lamentable it is true, but already brought to a standstill and not affecting affect-ing in any degree the strategic situation. situa-tion. It is interpreted by general consent con-sent as part of the plan of the Anglo-French Anglo-French command, foiled in its intentions inten-tions of delivering a shattering blow on the Somme front, to roll up tho new Hindenburg line by assaults on both flanks at Soissons and Arras. :. Both attempts are already described as failures, despite regrettable losses in men and probably guns. The British official reports are giv- en scanty notice and are printed in inconspicuous type without headlines. The censorship authorities are evident-i, evident-i, ly assured that the reading public gen- erally accept the German version and that confidence In Field Marshal von '- Hindenburg is unimpaired. : Von Hindenburg Confident. ; An Interview between the field mar-1 mar-1 shal and a Spanish correspondent is '' given prominence by the German press and shares headline honors with the battle of Arras. In this interview Von Hindenburg avows his confidenco in the firmness of the German fronts on the west and east and expresses a conviction that the submarine cam-f cam-f palgn will not fall. It has had an effect ef-fect on public opinion whero the field marshal still bulks largo as a confidence-Inspiring hero. The interview was evidently launched to counteract any feeling of discouragement at the growing dimensions of what the Vor-I Vor-I waerts terms "a world league for the I destruction of Germany." I oo |