To complete this brief survey of the battle, we must
add that General Gouraud in Champagne, net content with having smashed the enemy offensive on July 15th, began at once to recover by local attacks the broad outpost zone that he had evacuated. In this way he recovered the important hill known as the Main de Massiges and other ground on a twelve-mile front east of Suippes, taking eleven hundred prisoners. Further west, near Moronvillers, he regained more ground, with three hundred prisoners. Thus the enemy has nothing to show for the enormous casualties which ho sustained in the grand attack that failed. In last Sunday's report General Foch paid a special tribute to the French Tank Corps for its part in the great counterstroke. Each section destroyed from fifteen to twenty enemy machine-guns, to say nothing of field batteries. The enemy correspondents admit the strength and efficacy of the Tanks, which crept up unobserved through the cornfields and charged the guns.
