30 MARCH 1918, Page 1
The German offensive opened at dawn on Thursday week with
very heavy bombardment from German and Austrian guns along sixty miles of our front from the Scarpe, east of Arras, to the Oise at La Fere. At eight o'clock dense masses of German infantry, representing forty divisions, attacked over fifty miles of our line from the Sensee at Croisilles, south-east of Arras, to La Fere. The German Emperor was in supreme command. The Bavarian Crown Prince commanded the group of armies extending southward to the Omignon, just north of St. Quentin. The German Crown Prince commanded the army group operating in the much narrower sector between the ()mignon and the Oise, which was evidently intended to drive a wedge between our right wing and the French left wing south of La Fere.
