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Show I! FRENCH S1ATE0Y COSTLY FOR HUNS ! Pre-arranged Rectification of Lines Gave Germans Small Tactical Advantage. GIGANTIC BATTLE FAILS Allied Commanders Are Fully Confident Regarding Out-come Out-come of Great Drive. I WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IX 1 FRANCE. Tuesday. April 9 (By the! I Associated Press.) The pre-arranged I rectification of the French lines to the' I south of Paris rave to the Germans I scarcely a shadow of advantage tac-j I lically. while it cost them wholly dls-J I proportionate losses. Since their ad-J ad-J vance they have been much hnrassi-d j by the French outposts in the marshy I lands, and have bc.cn unable to carry I out any operation. I Stronsr concentrations of German I troops have been observed behind the 1 German lines at several points today. I hut their movements were greatly m-I m-I Offered with by the French airmen I and gunners, who left them little peace j ' The second phase of the gigantic I battle, which has now lasted twenty! 1 1 dayst br pan on April 1 after the en-j I emy's great rush in an endeavor to I break the communications of the two! i armies. The Germans made two sep-l sep-l urate efforts on the flanks eastward of i i Arras in the north ,and at Orvillersj and Plemont in the south. Instead of! I the expected success 'the Germans have since even lost some ground at these places, i Another attack, against the center. Ij on April 4, on a front of nearly ten) I miles in an attempt to reach the Amiens railroad, met with fqn.il h failure, but further north the British were lorced to cede an unimportant i piece of territory eastward of Villi r-Bretonneux. r-Bretonneux. Such is the actual sit- nation with the allied commanders! I fully confident regarding the future. |