The official communique issued this afternoon states "Northward of the Lys we made appreciable progress; our infantry, attacking at day-break, carried in a single charge two lines of tron ches, gaining five hundred metre and retaining part of the village of Wirdendreft, near Langemarck.
We captured the ferryman's hou on the right bank of the Cant!, half-way between Dixmude sad Ypree; possession of this hous: hss been keenly disputed for e month.
The enemy attempted, unsucces* fully, to compel us to evacuate the captured ground by a violent bom erdment., There has been intermittent cam nonading in the region of Arres.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.