The communique issued this afternoon states: "Yesterday afternoon was marked by our pro-grosse in Belgium, where all the enemy's counter-attacks failed.
"A vigorous offensive at Arras made us masters of several trend chee in front of Anchy, only a mile and @ quarter south-west of La' Bassée, Loos and St. Laurent! Blangy, both two miles eastward of Arras, At Blangy we carried nearly the whole of the enemy's first! line of trenches over a front of more than a kilometre.
"Our heavy artillery in the district of Tracy-lo-Val and in Champagne gained a clear advantage.
"Yn the Argonne the enemy blew up one of our trenches north of Tie Four de Paris and tried to debouch from there with three battalions. This attack and another made at Bt. Hubert were repulsed.
"There is nothing to report concerning the operations east of the Mouse and in the Vosges."
An official communique issued this evening says:
"We have gained some ground along the dunes, north-east of Nieuport.
"Two strong German ocounterattacks north of Ypres on the main road have been repulsed.
"The British have advanced slightly in the Armentidres district.
"Our artillery has destroyed two heavy batteries in the region of Verdun."
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