FOLLOWING UP THE ADVANTAGE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 146, 22 June 1915, Page 7

FOLLOWING UP THE ADVANTAGE

GERMAN TRENCHES FULL OF CORPSES. (Received June 22, 11.50 a.m.) PARIS, 21st June. A communique states : We have carried further trenches, and are now approaching the north-west of Souchez. In Lorraine, near Reillon, we followed up our advantage and captured all the enemy's forts and trench along a front of 1500 yards. The enemy's counterattack was dispersed. Our scouts have advanced close to Chazelles, Goudrexange, and Lesremabois, the enemy having abandoned the territory. All the German trenches were full of corpses. In the region of Le Bonhomme, we carried by assault the spur of Calvaire dv Bonhonune, and reached the outskirts of Lo Bonhomme. We have advanced beyond the cemetery of Metzeral. Hand-to-hand fighting continues to the aouth-we&t, where we gained ground and captured 150 prisoners. The High Commissioner reports : — LONDON, 21st June, 6 p.m. Near Dompierre, west of Peronne, an enemy attack, preceded by the explosion of mine chambers, was stopped dead by artillery and infantry fire. On the heights of the Meuse, on a sector of trench as at Colonne, the French maintained all yesterday's gains, despite a counter-attack of extreme violence at 4 in the morning.