The sun., 1918-08-08
OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS
OF DAYS OPERATIONS
British Advance on Fiiue Mile
Front in Flanders.

LONDON. Aug. THE official state
nenfs Of to-ddp's fighting In Franc
follo,p:
FRENCH (NIGHT)-Between the
Disc and the Aisne. after a violent
bombardment. the enemy attempted
two surprise attacks near Bailly and
Tracy lie Val. He was repulsed.
East of Barisne Ton the Vesle)
few OF our elements. acting in con-
Junction with American troops,
crossed the Vesle and established
themselves on the northern bank,
where they maintained themselves in
spite of two violent German counter
attacks.
North Of Rheims we have pushed
our line 400 meters between the rail-
ways running to Rethel and Laon.
FRENCH (DAY)-In the region of
Montdidier our troops have made some
local progress south of FRANKFURT and
southeast of Mesnil-St. Georges (west
of Montdidier).
Along the Vesle the French repulsed
last night German attempts against
La Grange Farm (west of Braisne)
and against the station at Ciry-Sal-
sogne. We made 100 prisoners east
of Braisne.
In Champagne a local attack was
directed this morning against our po-
sition south Of Auberive. 1t was
thrown back.
BRITISH (NIGHT)-This morning
and again this afternoon the enemy
made further local attacks upon our
positions astride the Braye-C orbie
road and was repulsed after sharp
fighting.
Raids attempted by the enemy dur
ing the day south of Hamel and south
west of La Bassee were driven off by
our fire.
The progress of our patrols in the
sector east of Robecq has been con-
tinued. and our lire between the Lave
and Clarence rivers has now been
pushed forward to depth of about a
thousand yards on a front of nearly
five miles
Further north our patrols entered
the enemy's trenches to-day east OF
the Nieppe forest and captured more
than thirty prisoners and a few ma
chine guns A few prisoners have
been obtained also on other parts of
the front.
BRITISH (DiY)-At an early hour
this morning the British troops hold
ing the sector on our front southwest
of Morlancourt counter attacked and
regained all of the more important
portions of the ground taken from
them by the enemy in his attack yes
terday. All the detectives of our coun-
ter attack have been secured and a
number of prisoners captured by US.
AS the result of the action of our
patrols yesterday and during the night
we have advanced our line a short
distance astride the Clarence River
Gin the Lys sector) and captured a
few prisoners and two machine guns.
A party of our troops successfully
rushed one of the enemy posts last
night north OF Vieux Rerquin Con the
north side OF the Lys sector).
The hostile artillery has been active
east of Robecq and In the Merville
and Dickebusch sectors.
GERMAN DAY-The number of
prisoners captured by us as a result
of yesterdays fighting north OF the
Somme has increased to 2SS. British
counter attacks south of the Braye-
Corbic road broke down before our
lines.
Northeast OF Montdider the enemy's
partial attacks were unable to develop
owing to our fire.
In the morning there were partial
engagements on the Vesle and we cap
tured some prisoners. In the evening
there were violent artillery duels.
which were followed by strong enemy
attacks on both sides of Braisne and
Bazouches. These attacks were re-
pulsed. at some places by our FIRE and
at isolated points by our counter at
tacks