10 FEBRUARY 1917, Page 2

British successes on a minor scale continue day by day

in France, and In the aggregate become most substantial results. For instance, it has been announced that during January the policy of raids and small advances accounted for twelve hundred and twenty- eight German prisoners, including twenty-seven officers. Last Saturday night east of Beaucourt, north of the Ancre, our troops advanced five hundred yards on a front of three-quarters of a mile. More than a hundred prisoners were taken and three machine guns, But the most important success as regards position was the occupation of the fortified village of Grandcourt, on the south bank of the Ancre, which was announced in Thursday's papers. The Germans abandoned the defences owing to our pressure, which was not only unceasing but increasing.