According to new reports, our troops during the battle of April 16 between Soissons and Rheims broke up very important German forces. In expectation of our attack the enemy had brought up nineteen divisions.

According to the accounts of prisoners, formal orders had been given to hold out at any cost on the first position, which had been deepened. The losses suffered by the Germans were heavy not only during the battle, but on the preceding days.

The number of unwounded prisoners taken by us between Soissons and Rheims now reaches eleven thousand.

French CommuniquÉ, April 11, 1917.