AFTER TEN DAYS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14567, 1 April 1918, Page 4

AFTER TEN DAYS.

SITUATION VIEWED WITH CONFIDENCE. GERMANS GETTING WORST OF ARGUMENT. PREPARING ANOTHER GREAT BLOW. (Ekv. Tel. Coiiyilght— United Press As&n.) (Router's Telegram.) (Received April 1, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 31. Reuter'* toi respondent, writing from the British front on the tenth day of the biittlf. says : "We can regard the situation with more confidence." 4, During tin; last few days the German progress on the front held by the British armies has been almost trilling. Except for a determined attack with the object of ciipturing Arras and 'turning our flank m that direction, the Germans have attempted no operations on a large scale, and m a vast majority q! the minor encounters we have had much the better of the exchanges, this being conspicuously true of jthe area from Arras to Albert and about the Ancre, where the Germans repeatedly made vicious drives to capture local strategical positions. How great their losses during the whole of the ten days have been it is impossible to/ compute. The Germans have now put into the crucible of battle over eighty divisions of infantry. All have been more or less unmercifully hammered. Within" the last few days comparatively few new German divisions have been thrust into the line, which probably means that the enemy is preparing a second great blow, which may fall at any time with all the tremendous might' that was behind the German first blow. To-dn v we stand unsftaken across their pa^h. Seven divisions of good troops tried to take Arras and failed. The decisive check to the German advance on Arms is important, for it further delays the enemyV plan of campaign.