Through iten's Agency.
Paris, March 8.
The official communique issued this afternoon states Our progress at different points in the Champagne was increased at the end of the day.
We captured some trenches northwest of Souain and about 500 metres between Porthos and Beau Sejour. We took some prisoners including officers.
According to the statements of prisoners our heavy guns on the heights of the Meuse seriously damaged a 42 centimetre gun which had been recently placed there by the enemy. The gun was dismantled and sent to the rear; four of the gun crew were killed and seven wounded.
We have. made some progress northward of Badonviller.
The Germans violently counterattacked at Reichackerkopf and gained a footing momentarily, but were driven back after furious hand-to-hand fighting; the German losses were extremely heavy. thing to report, Berlin, March 7.
The Foreign Office publishes the following report:
Great Headquarters, Marob 7.
Between the sea and the Somme Artillery duels only have taken place.
Nightly attempts of the enemy to advance South of Ypres have failed.
In the Champagne the Germans have progressed. They have taken some of the enemy's trenches and have made sixty prisoners. A French attack in mass against the German position northeast of Lemorni] has broken down in the fire of the German infantry and artillery under the most heavy losses for the French.
East of Badonviller the charges of the enemy have been repulsed.
In the Vorges fighting began yesterday west of Minster, north "f Sennheim, which is not terminated A German attack southward of the railway station of Burnhaupt was repelled by infantry fire.
The communique issued this this evening states In Champagne snowstorms impeded to-day's operations. The enemy, in the morning, attempted re-capture the wood west of Porthos but were repulsed, A counter-attack gained us ground east and north and our progress was extended in the afternoon.
We captured 500 metres of trenches in the vicinity of Porthos. lost a few metres between Mesnil and Bean Sejour and took a hundred metres on the ridge northeast of Mesnil.
We gained a footing in an enemy trench at Bois Brule, in the region of St Mihiel. A German attack at Bois Lo Pretre, northwest of Pont-a-Mousson, failed. Our progress continued north of Badonviller. as yet.
The German movement northwest of Grodno. are being continued according to the plan.
We repulsed a counter-attack at Reichackerkopf, in the Vosges.
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