The Archive · 1915

Rain and Snow on Western Front

WEDNESDAY

Paris, March 1.

The official communique issued this afternoon atates:—

There was nothing important except at different pointe d'appui, 709 which we successively secured, and which now form a continuous line line two kilometres long northward and northwestward of Porthos.

We also made some slight progress at Chapelotte, three kilometres northward of Colles.

The official communique issued this evening states:

Rain and snow storms have impeded operations.

We repulsed a atrong counterattack north of Mesnil, in the Champagne, maintained our gains and made fresh progress, We captured a block-house at Bois-lo-Prétre, and repulsed strong attack on Sunday night: Sulzeren, northwest of Munster.

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