No need to say what most of the reporting is about, as the fighting is far from stopping for Easter, with much of pages 5 and 6 given over to matters on the Western Front, with Philip Gibbs' report notable in not trying to gloss over the losses suffered by the British troops. Today’s main development though is the agreement to brigade American troops who cannot be used in divisions of their own with British and French units. What has been glossed over here is the fact General Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force, has steadfastly opposed his troops being used as part of his allies’ armies rather than as an independent unit, and the caveat that they will only fight brigaded with the Allies until he wishes to withdraw them to build up the American army might have been the only way to ensure his consent to a policy which can hardly have been to his taste, even in the current circumstances.