In Champagne the enemy deliver. ed several violent counter-attacks during Tuesday night and in the day-time on Wednesday, but did not} gain an inch of ground. We consolidated and extended our positions on the crests which we had seized, inflicting heavy losses on our assailants.
Our artillery on the heights of the Meuse completely demolished a number of enemy trenches, Nothing worthy of note occurred elsewhere.
1th.
The official communique issued this evening states:—A dense fog greatly impeded operations, The British successfully bombarded Westende, in Belgium.
We repulsed two attacks near Zaandwoorde, in the sector Ypres.
'The British, in the region <f Neuve Chapelle, repulsed two counter-attacks, inflicting great' loss on the enemy.
We made marked progress on Wednesday evening in the wood west of Porthos in face of desperate German resistance.
We repulsed counter-attack xt Reichackerkopf, in the Vosges.
Paris, March 11.
The official communique issued this afternoon states: sulted in the capture of 2,500 metres of trenches before Neuve Chapelle and of the village itself. Then the British Army progressed in the direction of Aubers as far as Pietro Mill and, in " south-easterly di tion, to the border of Bois clu Bier; an advance of about two kilometres beyond Neuve Chapelle. The German artillery only fired a few shots,
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