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Show 00 REVIEW OF WAR SITUATION. American, British and French troops on a twenty mile front In rieardy are withstanding renewed German efforts to reach Amiens. Battling furiously and with the help of heavy artillery fire the enemy infantry' has gained but little and on most of the lront his attacks at-tacks are belne; repulsed by the allies. al-lies. Having forced ihe British from Vil-lers-Bretonneux. south of the Somme and eleven miles east of Amiens, tho British is facing the enemy on hill positions po-sitions west and northwest of the village vil-lage Anierican and French troops on the line from Hangaard-en-Santerre to south of Castel aro holding the Ger-. mans well in cheek. The only progress pro-gress the enemy has made here has heen in Hansaard where heavy fighting fight-ing is progress 1 ni; Germans Hurled Back. South of the Somme the Germans were hurled back by the British except In the center of the line around VII-lers-Bretonneux while north of the Somme attacks near the river and north of Albert were repulsed. Against the Franco-American positions, posi-tions, the Germans, although in large force, had to be content with only a footing in Hangaard and in the woods to the north. Assaults east of Hallles and against Senecat wood and Hill 82, in the region of Castle, were thrown back. The line between Hallles Hall-les and Castel is but three miles from the railway runninc -outh from Amiens. Apparently the Germans did not resume re-sume the offensive with as heavily massed forces as were used in the previous battles of Picardy and lust week in Flanders. Probably they are counting on the artillery to blast a way for smaller bodies of troops, the losses since March 21 having necessitated necessi-tated economy in nutnpower. Increased Activity in Flanders. There has been increasod activity in Flanders, especially at the apex of the new enemy salient. The Germans Ger-mans attacked cast of Robecq and were repulsed while the British made slight gains west of Mervillc and around Metern. .Northwest of Fesru- bert where the new line joins the old tho British have recaptured an advanced ad-vanced post, inflicting losses on the Germans. In Macedonia allied troops have gained new local successes. British troops west of Dolran penetrated Bulgarian Bul-garian defenses on a wide front and In the Cerna bend French and Serbian troops repulsed enemy attacks. In Albania west of Lake Presba allied troops forced the enemy to retire from the heights along the Vrba and captured cap-tured two villages. Holland Situation Serious. Relatione between Holland and Germany Ger-many over demands made by Germany are still serious and it is reported that little progress has been made toward an agreement According to an Amsterdam Ams-terdam newspaper the Dutch minister to Germany and the German minister to Holland have left their posts for their respective capitals. |