Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-03-25 | Page 1 | French in the Fight

' . - - ' ' ' Troops Go to Assistance Assist-ance of the British PARIS, March 25. The French on Saturday went to tho assistance of the British and took over a sector of the battle front, the war ollicc announces. In tho region of Noyon and on the right bank of the Oise heavy fighting with tho Germans is in progress. Tho statoment follows: "French troops hegan to intervene on March 23 in the battle now boing fought on tho British front They relieved re-lieved certain of the allied forces and took up fighting themselves on this oftnlnr est tlio f rnn f "At tho present time they are engaged en-gaged in heavy fighting in the region of Noyon and they are disputing the heights of the right bank of the Oise with important German forces. "Northwest of Rheims there has been a violent artillery action in the region of Courcy and Loivre. In the Champagne two German sifrprlse attacks at-tacks cast of Sulppes resulted in failure. fail-ure. French patrols took some prisoners pris-oners near Tahuro. "Thcro was much artillery activity between Arracourt and the Vosges. At daybreak German forces attacked the I French lines east of Blenoroy and east of Badonvlller. Tho Germans were repulsed re-pulsed with heavy losses." PARIS, March 25. Another air raid alarm was sounded shortly after 1 o'clock this morning. After three-quarters three-quarters of an hour firemen's bugles and church bells announced that nil was clear and tho Parisians wore ablo to return' to their beds.