One of the most satisfactory things about the French advance
is that it was achieved without great loss except to the Germans. No fewer than two thousand three hundred prisoners were taken in the course of Tuesday's and Wednesday's fighting, and in the sector of Bouchavesnes alone ten guns and forty machine guns were captured. This brings the total of prisoners take 1 y ourselves and the French since the Great Push began to forty-six thousand men and two hundred and sixty guns. We should not be surprised if this total is a good deal augmented by the time these pages are in our readers' hands. We notice as one of the geographical features of the new advance the occupation of the village of Brioche, close to Bouchavesnes. Is that, we wonder, where the excellent cakes of that name were originally invented ? If so, the omen is good.
