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These captures of men and material and also of guns

have been added to from day to day, till the telegrams of Thursday afternoon show that they have reached a total of over seventeen thousand prisoners and at least eighty-seven guns. The Germans of course counter-attacked in huge masses, but without success. The German wireless contrives to leave the impression that the net result was favourable to themselves, and that the great French offensive was on the whole a failure. It was nothing of the kind. The capture of prisoners.is the test by which to judge successes in trench battles, and here the net gains, as also in guns and material, show enormously in favour of our Allies.

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