ound by a counter-attack.

June 26--Germans retake some of their trenches north of Souchez.

June 27--Violent artillery fighting occurs in Belgium and north of
Arras.

June 28--Severe artillery duels are fought along the front from the
Aisne to Flanders.

June 29--Heavy cannonading is in progress north of Arras, particularly
near Souchez.

June 30--Artillery actions are fought north of Arras and on the banks
of the Yser; in the Argonne the Germans gain a foothold at some points
of the French line near Bagatelle.

July 1--North of Arras and along the Aisne heavy artillery engagements
are being fought.

July 2--In the western part of the Argonne a German army under the
Crown Prince takes the offensive, and northwest of Le Four-de-Paris
German troops advance from one-eighth to one-fifth of a mile on a
three-mile front, taking war material and prisoners.

July 3--German artillery carries on severe bombardments along
practically the whole front; French repulse two German attacks in the
region of Metzeral.

July 4--Spirited artillery actions are fought in the region of
Nieuport and on the Steenstraete-Het Sase front.

July 5--Germans take trenches from the French at the Forest of Le
Pretre; French repulse attacks north of Arras.

July 6--British gain near Ypres, expelling Germans from trenches near
Pilkem won during the gas assaults in April.

July 8--French take 800 yards of trenches north of the Souchez railway
station, Germans recapturing 100 yards; German counter-attacks on the
trenches southwest of Pilkem, recently taken by the British, are
repulsed by British and French artillery.

July 9--British press on north of Ypres, the Germans falling back
after a two-days' bombardment; in the Vosges, near Fontenelle, the
French advance.

July 10--French check the Germans north of Arras and the Belgians
check them on the Yser.

July 11--Artillery actions are in progress at Nieuport, in the region
of the Aisne, in Champagne, in the territory between the Upper Meuse
and Moselle, and in the Vosges: Arras and Rheims are again shelled.

July 13--German Crown Prince's army, attacking in force, is thrown
back by the French in the Argonne, the move being regarded by military
observers as the beginning of a new offensive against Verdun.

July 14--The German Crown Prince's army in the Argonne advances
two-thirds of a mile, the French then halting it.

July 15--Germans hold gains made in the Argonne.

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