Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-03-25 | Page 1 | Berlin Claims Victory

Capture Over 45,000 Prisoners and 600 Guns. v British defeated i Violent Fighting for Possession Pos-session of Combles and Ales Lose. BERLIN. March 25. The Germans are now standing to the north of the Somme in the middle of the former Somme battlefield, says today's official offi-cial statement. Bapaume -was captured in night fighting. In the evening Nesle was taken by storm, the statement adds. British, Americans and French -woro thrown back through a pathless "wooded country. coun-try. More than 45,000 prisoners and more than 800 guns have been captured, tho statement says. Guiscard and Chauny were captured in tho evening. Violent fighting developed for possession pos-session of Combles and the heights west of the town. The enemy was defeated, de-feated, the statement says. Fighting at Bapaume. Bapaume is on the northern part of the battlo front where the British line for the most part has been hold. It is one of the larger towns on tho fighting fight-ing front from which a number of roads radiate. Tho official statement of Saturday night was said a gigantic struggle was taking place for the town. It is 105 miles below Arras. Nesle, Guiscard, Chauny, Villequior-Aumont Villequior-Aumont and La Neuvlllo are all in the neighborhood of St. Quentin, where the Germans have been making tho greatest great-est headway in the last 24 hours. It was thero that tho French troops were thrown in taking over a section of the battle front from tho British. This is the second report by Berlin of the prosenco of American troops on that part of the front. Sunday's German Ger-man statement said that French, English Eng-lish and American forces had been brought up from tho southwest for a counter-attack and -were thrown back on Chauny. Combles is six miles northwest of Peronne. oo