By Associated Press
The great offensive of the French army against the Germans from the Bend in the line in France from Soissons eastward into the Champagne continues unabated. Numerous new points of vantage have been taken. Prisoners and guns captured, and violent counterattacks put down with heavy casualties. In three days of fighting, more than 17,000 unwounded prisoners have fallen into the hands of the French, together with seventy-five cannon.
In Wednesday's battle in the forest of Ville-au-Bois, an enveloping movement was carried out against the Germans, and 1,300 of them threw down their arms and surrendered. In addition, 150 machine guns were captured there.
Between Soissons and Kheims, the villages of Gate and Brayen-Lonols were captured, together with territory about them, the Germans in the latter region retreating in disorder, and losing to one French regiment alone 300 prisoners, belonging to seven different regiments. In their flight the Germans left behind much war material. Here the French captured nineteen cannon.
Between Juvincourt and the Aisne, the Germans threw a counterattack against the French line with about 140,000 men, but according to Paris, the artillery of General Xivelle's men repulsed the attack with sanguinary losses. 