An official report has been issued on the French operations which have been going on for several weeks in the Champagne. It states that the local results have been a continual progress. In spite of reinforcements, the Germans have never been able to retake anything taken from them.
The German losses have been very heavy: two Guard regiments have been wiped out and 10,000 German corpses have been found, while 2,000 prisoners have been taken.
The general object of the operations was to help the Russian Army by occasioning a large expenditure of ammunition and by preventing the Germans from sending troops to the East.
The Germans have been forced to confess the truth in an official communique.
Our colonial infantry took a brilliant part in the capture of " fort at Beau Sejour.
General Mannowry, an army com-manner, and General Villuslet, a corps commander, during an inspection of their first line of trenches, which were thirty yards from those of the enemy, were wounded by a bullet while examining the German position through 4 loophole,
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