The communique issued this after noon states that yesterday the enemy attempted a general offensive movement along the whole front from Nieuport to Arras, white there were also violent attacks at other points of the battle front. There were alternating advances and retirements between Nieuport and the La Baasée Canal. The enemy, who occupied Ramsakpelle, to the southward of Nieuport, wore driven out by counter-stracks.
We lost a few: points d'appui to to the south of Ypres, namely Holletrict on the heights of the right bank below Soissons, but retired towards Vailly. We advanced in the region of Souain. There has been heavy fighting in the Argonne. We gained further ground in Woevre and the forest of Lo Petre.
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