Increasing Fighting Intensity

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13657, 27 March 1918, Page 3

Increasing Fighting Intensity

■HEAVIEST BLOWS TO COME, ' „LONDON, March 25> The United Press' coa-respondent, writing-on Monday, says:—-With in-j creasing lntemsdty the battle thuuders from the Scarpe to the Oise. v. | Prisoners declare- that the heaviest ' bdows have yet to come. : | The 'Germans, at a heaivy cost, made pix>gress on the old ba/ttletiield" of the Somme, but the British line everywhere is intact. The withdrawal was carried out in the mosib perfect order .> SE.YEJRJE ALL-NIGHT FIGHTING. There wa&> all-ni^it fighting of the eevewst order, especially on.' the Sadigny-Bapaunie roads. The Ger- " mans, m den&e masses were hui'led fol'Vard, in the moonlight, the British machine gumis^rakin'g tjhem, ceasele&sly. Obeervere signalled back to the artillery, and the gunners, half stripped, were firing utntil the guns were almost red-hot. TBie enemy was pressing on almost without artillery support, trustingl to bend our line by sheer force of numbers. No such tai-gets were ever offered to modem guns. Flighting northward of Bapaume continued to be terrific, likswibe southward""" desperately attacking. THE GERMAN' DESIGN. Apparently the Germame are endeavouring to drive a wedge into the centre of the battle front, where tihey have created a pointed salient. .Notwithstanding the massed onslaughts and great losses, the British lin^i is bent; but not broken, i -which Handenburg counted upon doing on the firsT day. ■'■■•" -- i WOUK OF THE AIRMEN, \ Oui-. airmen keep up in the air j baittiiuig, and creating new records, notwithstanding" the storm of i less woa°ki Tiheir spirit is admirable. THE "SLIM" GERMAN. The Germans' are up to their . old j tricks. Diisgjuised as British ofneea-a, ' they are towelling to towns. in the ! rear, advising, the population to fly, ! saying the Gei*mans ai^e a.pproaching., One man was caught red-handed. — [ A. and N,Z. Cable. ,