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Show FRENCH KEEP IIP i Germany's "Peace Drive" Enters Third Week I With Fighting Front Same as Last Monday j Germans Meeting Great Difficulty in Bringing Up Guns and Supplies. I - . PARIS, April 4. Heavy artillor. fighting occurred last nigh) on the front north of Montdidier, the war office of-fice announces In raids in Champagne ;md on the Verdun front the French look prisoners and also captured two Lj machine guns. The statement follows: up "The artillery fighting became ey Ho violeni during the night in the region north of Montdidier. ?ry "Northwest of Rheims in the Cham- in. pagnc ;md on the left bank of the is Meuse (Verdun front) French troops see ' penetrated German trenches at several ws points brinin? back thirty prisoners ler and two machine jzuns. German raids im rast of Rheims, in Avocourt wood, and north of SI Die were without success. "There is nothing to report 7 hoy " Fit- im Quiet on British Front. ial" LONDON April 4 There was lit- tie activity in the battle area last night ' Jas with the exception of hostile artillery i 1 fire at various points, the war office! announced today. A few prisoners int ffcrc iakon by British parties de The statemenl follows ec "During the nighl a German machine pun post in the neighborhood of He-; He-; r tjul erne was rushed by our troops and ' De the machine cam capturcl A few prl I-A I-A oners were brought in on other parts ' e1 of the battle front, ( "Beyond hostile aerial activity at I m different point c n the battle line and ' also in the Menin road and Passchen- I daele sectors, there is nothing further; Sto report." Review of War Sitaution Germany's "peace drive-' through Picardy enters upon its third week! with both forces preparing for the I resumption of heavy fighting. Thej weather has interfered somewhat but1 idp ttornian have not renewi-d their heavy attacks and the fighting front has remained virtually the same since Monday :es North of the Somme the British 'or have improved their positions in small so-1 attacks while on the important sec-' he tor south of the Somme river there has been no infantry action North of ii- Montdidier, which has been the! ite fecene of much hea y fighting, the n- artillery bombardment ha been vio-u- lent but the enemy has made no at-irt at-irt tempt to attack. While then:- is little doubt that the of Germans must attack again and will )le have to sustain still greater losses in its further efforts against the allied line, he much interest cemors in the plans of :ee General Foch. The attacks by the ed Bnti-h between Albert and Arras and m- by the French between Montdidier and he Koyon apparently were for the pur-ng pur-ng pose of improving local positions, ce. Silence is being maintained by the British as to the next act in the u- titanic military contest, he Drive Halted by Weather, by German newspaper.- declare that the ot German drive was halted by bad weather and not by the Franco-Brit -!-b de, n:e Admission Is made that ;ee the Germans are having great difficulty diffi-culty in moving up guns and supplies over the muddy area of the Somme for and that transport is in poor shape, iry b--raue of the necessity for coned con-ed structing new roads. iD Amiens, the primary objective of German efforts in the past two weeks, ia free from danger for the moment. d- A military proclamation posted there of informs the population that threaten -ial ing peril has been removed and ex- torts them to maintain confidence, je- Americans Under Heavy Fire. Amerkan troons r, the region of !re Toul and in an unnamed place have ive been subjected to a he.ivj bombard -3at ment from German guns. Gas shells Ihe vere used mainly in the fire against re- lbe Americans in the unnamed place jid 'gh explosive shells and t-'us pro-tbe pro-tbe lectors were used in the artillery bat-Ue bat-Ue northwest of Toul, but no great k damage was done. Reconnaissance and patrol activi ties are Increasing on the Italian front, specially from weal of Lake Garda to the pave river The Italians have captured several enemy outposts and Wade a number of prisoners. A German force has been landed at Hangoe on the southern coast of Fin 'and, to aid in the campaign against the. Finnish rebels. The Finnish government gov-ernment forces are bombarding Tam-toerfors, Tam-toerfors, north of Helsingfors, while new Russian reinforcements are re-Ported re-Ported to have arrived to help the rebels, -who control most of southern Finland. German Sea Offensive. Germany's offensive on the seas, Ike her land drive, fell down las-I las-I . . week. Only sixten British, French and Italian steamships were sunk in the past week, while in the previous seven-day seven-day period, thirty-seven were lost through the activities of German submarines. sub-marines. The British losses last week 'ere thirteen ships, including six of more than 1C00 tons, which compares most favorably with the loss of twenty-eight, including sixteen of the larger tonnage, the previous week. Fifteen British merchantmen escaped successfully from submarine atiacks. j |