The third section of the battle is the fortunate one.
We offer the French our hearty congratulations on their progress. On Wednesday night they carried by assault the whole village of Carency and the wood north of the village. The place was a labyrinth of blockhouses and trenches. Hundreds of Germans were killed in the bayonet rush and more than a thousand prisoners were taken, including thirty officers. Much material was captured, but the record of it is notyet complete. It includes several piece. of artillery, a large number of machine guns, three thousand rifles, and huge stores of ammunition. The French did not stop at Carency. They proceeded to Ablain St. Nazaire, all of which except a fringe was captured and is being held, according to the accounts published on Friday morning. Renville St. Yeast, west of Vimy, has also been captured. On one day the French fired two hundred and seventy-nix rounds of high explosive per gun, and the result, as the Times Military Correspondent tells us, was that all the German defences except the villages were "levelled to the ground." The Germans opposing the French have lost some twenty thousand men. It is estimated that the British fighting has caused the Germans a loss of ten thousand in the last few days.
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