The official communique issued afternoon states fo made important progress yesterday in Champagne. We carried two German works, one northward of Porthos and the other northward of Beau Sejour and also gained ground between these points. We captured 200 prisoners.
Over 1,000 Germans have surrendered in the last ten days.
There were lively artillery engagements on the heights of the Meuse.
We made some progress at Hartmanns-Weilerkopf.
The Belgian artillery demolished two of the enemy's works Dixmude and their infantry oocupied a farm on the right bank of the Ysor. A Belgian aviator dropped bombs on the harbour station at Ovtend.
The Germans fired sixty shells into Reims; thirty of them a the Cathedral.
'A German attack at Becourt, near Albert, was immediately checked. The enemy threw 200 shells into Soissons.
We made marked progress on the whole front in Champagne. Our gains yesterday, northwest and north of Beau Sejour, at present, amount to 2,000 metres of trenches.
These were appreciably extended to-day, Two hundred German dead were found in one trench alone.
In the Argonne we enptured 300 metres of trenches west of Boureuilles and reached the edge of the Plateau of Vanguois.
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