The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 25, 1918, Page 10

THE SEATTLE STAR BITTER FIGHT IS WAGED ON SOMME GERMANS CLAIM Western Situation Does Not Warrant Gloom, Says irwi GAIN AGAINST ALLIED TROOPS by French a Sunday near Ch & German off dy wireless here The third ar armies were ¢ Quentin, Cam! French st fensive bet nier continued Miles) from its Fall German attempts to Somme on four b pulsed by artillery. The ar with the and rein en whic crowded the commun road behind their lines Advices from F Haig’s official co: ation, indi- qate that the enemy ceeded at fone time in crossing the Somme and that some of the most violent fighting occurred Violent Attacks “North of Peronne.” munication, “unusually violent at tacks were made against Tortille Fiver positions. Our troops are with aes, to new positions, forcing the Germans to fight for every foot of ground gained. 0 played havo ion train ee, taken from said the com: | BY WILL IRWIN (Famous Correspondent) Written for the United I reas WASHINGTON, March Noth ng in the West front situat pessiniam or d a and he ffensives there was « on panto, yet in vee turned out as Verdun offensive, the gained six miles in the h maid of the 30,000 prix emember that this larger than the German suc wo great AMERICAN SHIP | SUNK; CREW OF 7818 RESCUED LONDON, March 25.—The Ameri can steamship Chattahoochee has er the Verdun. is not proportionate “German infantry massed further | been sunk off England by a subma Rorth of Peronne, and made repeated | rine, an official admiralty announce efforts to break thru our lines. | ment aye. ‘They were repulsed and sustained heavy losses.” Later Berlin statements claimed stores of booty were seized by Cer man troops at Chauny, and that the British in retreat were setting fire to| towns and villages Bertin claims the kaiser’s troops Are advancing between rivers Somme and Cise, and that the battle con- tinues along the line from Loy to rew of TS was saved. The « that the pedoes, fou ship. taken over when war was declared. The Chattahoochee was a Sees end Maurepas. A claim ot | pcrew steamship of §,007 tons eee ant O00 gens is also} Piitateabers’e tactics would Indicate that the German command had Planned to split the British and French troops at the junction of the allied line, crumple the British forces | Back to the North sea coast, roll the > French southward and plunge thru) the breach to Paris. ‘The valiant defense of the allied ‘Qrmies, however, disarranged this elaborate hope. for outside of the _ Break at St. Quentin and subsequent ‘Operations in that vicinity, the allied | The Chattahoochee formerly was by BRITISH DRIVE HUNS BACK IN | BITTER BATTLE In| : iF larger an at Verdun the Chance for Genlus anpalgn, Iw t before the Marne, w «ium, we kept he battle cont creat violence.) Attacks Repulsed oft tatement inaued 1 Haig since the German YANKEES SEND eon HEAVY SHELLS INTO HUN LINE BY FRED 8. FERGUSON ling to the enemy's ad 4 all along the leant.) Germans Report Capture of Two Allied Defenses RERLIN, Mare The war of fice report claims Peronne and Ham and other suc WITH THE IN FRANCE man lines were heavily and machine-gunned today, during by the enemy ARMY The G bombard ennen In the attack on the Piritish forces. Detween the Olse and the Somme our troops are fighting forward,” the |report announces. “Chauny has been taken Immense early changes stores of war material have been taken, ‘The British are burning villages as they retire The Somme has been crossed at many between Ham and A gigantic strugele ts tak for Bapaume." the relief ne trenches changes” mean n the front t fresh unite “Belgium” will be the subject of a Samuel Hill's addreas to the mem: | bers of Rainier chapter, D. A. R. |! Tuesday afternoon, at the University | club. ee CASUALTIES GERMAN CORRESPONDENTS PAY | TRIBUTE TO AMSTERDAM, March 3%. man correspondents united in paying tribute to the stubborn resistance of | inerrective, ax the machines were de the Pritish, especially the artillery men covering the retreat, who left their batteries when the Germans British report declares,| were only a few hundred yards dis Ba tant, according to copies of German | THE BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEMENT Ger-| papers arriving here today IN PARIS AIR RAID PARIS, March 26.—Several casual ties remulted from aid on’ Parts, it was nounced today airplanes succeeded in croning the lines at a high altitude and attacked the city. They were purrued by French fliers from the front and those atttached to the Paria de fenses. They were driven off after molished by the German artillery. | dropping several bombe. Allied alr squadrons also covered the | Britieh retreat, It waa stated. 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Hard fighting was reforted in the Noyon region French forces held the heig! n the right bank of the against important enemy at orthwest of Rheims, there was nt artillerying in the Courcey and Loivre regions East of Suippes, in the Champagne region (where artillerying n Arracourt and the Vosges re Badonvilleres (where © in the line) the dawn, but was heavy loss Kast of American t enemy attacked thrown back with This is the first official allied an nouncement that French troops are aiding the British to repel the Ger man drive. The Berlin official statement of Sunday wlared that reserves com- posed of rench and Ameri ated. The Ger , t to imply that the mobile reserve authorized at the Versailles conference has been in ac-! on, Noyon is located on the Oise about 15 miles west of Lafere, where ish and F ether 1 the Noyon, a retirement so far point Is to Chauny, of Lafere. Noyon is noted as the place wh Emperor Charlemagne was eewaed 748. neh lines are The French must enemy some dis tance east reatest repe at this five miles west in General Haig Sends Word of Thanks to Valiant sia LONDON, March 25. Marshal Haig, comm: chief of the allied thanked his soldiers for their de- fense Marshal Haig sent the follow to the commanders of the 1 and Fifth British armies, a1 field marshal command ing in chief sen ula rmy today inued r to crush with it the enemy's last pf success." Not more than 15 yards FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE MEN FROM FOUR STATES WILL TRAIN AT TECHNICAL SCHOOLS. | WASHINGTON, March 25.—Draft ed men from four st Tinols, Towa, Indiana and Minnesota—will called between April 7 and 28, to technical # for training in spe- cialized brane i be th under Provost Marsha! Gen. Crow+ der's plan to greatly increase the number of skilled men in the army. The first schools will be for signal corps men. The exact number to be called during the month has not been determined. ARRIVAL OF SHELLS IN PARIS IS STILL UNEXPLAINED MYSTERY LONDON, March 25.—The unex. plained arrival of high-powered Ger. man shells in Pans is today regard- ed as the greatest mystery of the war. Experts suggest the possibility of shells being propelled from Zep pelins at a great height possibly be- hind. the German lines. A report of a monster gun being located 75 miles from Paris is not confirmed. | Various theories are discussed here, including a newly discovered propellent, The Germans undoubtedly desire to spread the belief that they have developed such a gun in hope of de- moralizing public morale in Paris and London, the English in- cluding Dover, being wi its range. ~ MILITARY MEN ARE SKEPTICAL YASHINGTON, March 25.—] icism over the ability of the! ns to bombard Paris, from a 70 or more miles, continued | There is a tendency to} e that the Berlin claim of such bardment was based upon the | fact that Berlin desired to cast fear among the allies, “They've got to show me even | now,” said Gen. Snow, Amerigag chief of artillery, The general shared the feeling that Berlin was camouflaging andy said he felt certain that some devics nearer Paris than 70 miles was re- sponsible,