Yet another French official Note issued on Thursday describes in
detail the capture of a strongly fortified position at Quenne- vibres on June 6th. After the French artillery had smashed the German defensive works, an assault was made by four battalions of Zouaves and Senegalese sharpshooters and infantry from Brittany, each man carrying two hundred and fifty cartridges and two hand grenades. Twenty-five minutes after leaving their trenches the French took the enemy's positions and captured two hundred and fifty prisoners, the only survivors of two battalions of infantry. The Germans in a few minutes had lost two thousand men. The Zouavos also captured three 77-mm. guns. Then, of course, followed the inevitable German counter-attack, which, however, was unsuccessful. The engagement ended in the French retaining the positions they had carried and the Germans losing in all three thousand killed. The French loss was only two hundred and fifty killed and fifteen hundred wounded— so much less deadly is success than failure in action. In the British part of the line in the western theatre there has been little activity.
