May 8, 1917

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1917, Battle of Arras, Berry-au-Bac, casualties, Chevreux, Craonne, France, Fresnoy, Germany, Great Britain, prisoners of war, Reims, Second Battle of the Aisne

Germans recapture Fresnoy, though suffering great losses. German counter-attacks on French front defeated; French attack beyond Chevreux, north-east of Craonne, and carry German line on front of three-quarters of a mile; 200 prisoners taken; slight French gains south of Berry-au-Bac and east of Reims.

May 4, 1917

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1917, Battle of Arras, Battle of Bullecourt, Bullecourt, Craonne, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hargicourt, Moronvilliers, prisoners of war, Reims, Royal Navy, Second Battle of the Aisne, Sir John Jellicoe, St Quentin, trenches

Further British progress eastward of Bullecourt and near St. Quentin and Hargicourt. French take Craonne and first-line trenches north-west of Reims on a 2½-mile front; French progress in the Moronvilliers region; over 1,000 prisoners. Reforms at Admiralty announced; Sir John Jellicoe to be Chief of an enlarged and reconstituted War Staff

April 19, 1917

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1917, Aizy, Battle of the Hills, Conde-sur-Aisne, fortress, France, Germany, Jouy, Laffaux, Moronvilliers, Reims, Second Battle of the Aisne, Vregny

Further reduction of the Vrégny salient by the French; on the west Laffaux and Condé Fort taken, on the east Jouy and Aizy; French progress east of Reims, south-west of Moronvilliers.

April 16, 1917

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1917, Berlin, Cambrai, Craonne, food, France, Frederick Stanley Maude, Germany, Great Britain, Iraq, Juvincourt, Ottoman Empire, Peronne, prisoners of war, Reims, Samarra, Samarrah Offensive, Second Battle of the Aisne, Soissons, St Quentin, strike, Turkey

Great French Attack on a front from Soissons to Reims, thus increasing the battle front to over 100 miles; first positions taken from Soissons to Craonne and thence to Juvincourt second positions carried; over 10,000 prisoners. British advance beyond Epéhy towards Le Catelet, between Péronne-Cambrai road towards St. Quentin. General Maude announces British within 15 miles of Samarra. Food strikes in Berlin.

April 6, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, Battle of Arras, Bloody April, bombardment, Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte, France, Germany, Great Britain, Reims, Royal Flying Corps, Second Battle of the Aisne

More great air battles in France; 28 British machines missing and 49 German machines driven down in two days. Germans bombard Reims.

January 30, 1917

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1917, Bukowina, Cote 304, France, Germany, Iacobeni, Jakobeny, Latvia, Reims, Riga, River Aa, Romania, Soissons, Verdun

Fighting at Hill 304, Verdun. German attacks between Soissons and Reims fail. Violent German attacks between the Tirul Swamp and the River Aa; Russians retire at one point. Further Russian success near Jakobeny.

March 11, 1916

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1916, Baghdad, Berry-au-Bac, British Empire, communications, France, German Empire, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Jan Christiaan Smuts, Kerind, Ottoman Empire, Persia, railway, Reims, Russia, Troyon, Turkey, Usambara

German surprise attack near Reims, between Troyon and Berry-au-Bac; some French positions penetrated. Russians occupy Kerind, on the road to Baghdad. General Smuts defeats Germans west of Taveta; Germans retreating towards the Usambara Railway.

July 29, 1915

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1915, aeroplanes, air raid, Alsace, Argonne, August von Mackensen, Belgium, bombardment, Burthecourt, Champagne, Chatel, Chelm, Combles, communications, Dornach, Field Marshal, Flanders, France, gas, Germany, Longueval, Lorraine, Lublin, Mulhausen, Mulhouse, Nancy, Passchendaele, Picardie, Poland, railway, Reims, Roeselare, Roulers, Russia, Somme, weapons, Ypres

Von Mackensen breaks through the Russian line on the Lublin–Cholm railway. German aeroplanes drop bombs on Nancy; French aeroplanes bombard Passchendaele on the Ypres–Roulers railway, German bivouacs in the district of Longueval to the west of Combres, German defence works near Reims, the stations of Chatel in the Argonne and Burthecourt in Lorraine, and an asphyxiating gas factory at Dornach in Alsace.

May 2, 1915

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1915, Aisne, Argonne, Champagne, France, gas, Oise, Reims, Second Battle of Ypres, Tracy-le-Mont, weapons, Ypres

In the valley of the Aisne and in Champagne the enemy employed in the course of the day various appliances which had no effect – namely, near Tracy-le-Mont, glass tubes which, on breaking diffused an odour of ether, between Reims and the Argonne bombs charged with inflammable material, and, finally, gases giving off a greenish smoke. (The “incredible savagery” of the German methods around Ypres, on this and other days early this month, is described in The Times of May 10.)

March 30, 1915

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1915, air raid, civilian casualties, France, Germany, Great Britain, Imperial German Navy, merchant shipping, ocean liner, Paris, Reims, Reims cathedral, RMS Falaba, submarine

Paris reports dropping of bombs on Reims Cathedral. To-day’s estimate of deaths through torpedoing of the Falaba is 112.