WESTERN CAMPAIGN
OPERATIONS IN GMiPfIGNE 4LMOST ALL FRENCH POSITIONS RECOVERED. GERMAN DEFENSIVE DEFEATED. PARIS, Jan. 11.. A communique states that determined fighting continues in Champagne. We have • occupied almost ail the lost trenches. i It is apparent that the Germans, intended to achieve a definite result. -.They employed large numbers and. conducted , the attack on an extensive scale. They suffered a complete defeat. FOUR ENEMY ACTIONS. The High Commissioner reports : ..; London, Jan. 10, 4.65 p.m. The enemy, during the- course of yesterday, attempted no fewer than four concentric actions on a front; of eight kilometres from Courtine and Mout Tetu to Butte.. d©--Mesnil. The French fire decimated the adversary, and brought the offensive to a'dead stop. The enemy was only successful in-gaining a footing at two points on the first line north-east of Mesnil and o{ Tetu. -The • counterr attack drove him out. The enemy occupies only two smaller elements of the French advanced, trenches..
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 12 January 1916, Page 5
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