5 MAY 1917, Page 2

Our gallant Allies spent most of the week in making

good their hold of their conquests to the east and west of Reims, in which they took 175 guns on one day and nearly 21,000 prisoners in twelve days' fighting. On Monday, however, they made another advance in the Moronvilliers hill-country east of Reims and foiled a series of savage counter-thrusts. In Champagne. as in Artois Hindenburg is evidently resolved to stand his ground, and orders found on cap- tured prisoners enjoin the men to defend their front trenches to the last, contrary to the enemy's practice on the Somme.