. Rheims and the battles for its possession . n Commander-in-Chief, GeneralNivelle. and launched in April, between Soissons and Auberive, aimed atpiercing the German front and disengaging Klieims. Nurlhwesl of Rheims was the 5th Army (Gen. Ma/ell. of which the 38th(dips (Gen. de Mondesir) held the immediate approaches to the town, followed1>\ the 7th Corps (Gen. de Bazelaire), 32ml Gorps (Gen. Passaga) astride theVisne, and. extending beyond the 5lh Corps (Gen. de Boissoudy) andthe 1st Corps (Gen. Muteau). East of Kheims the 4lh Army (Gen. Anthoine) was engaged only duringthe seco
. Rheims and the battles for its possession . n Commander-in-Chief, GeneralNivelle. and launched in April, between Soissons and Auberive, aimed atpiercing the German front and disengaging Klieims. Nurlhwesl of Rheims was the 5th Army (Gen. Ma/ell. of which the 38th(dips (Gen. de Mondesir) held the immediate approaches to the town, followed1>\ the 7th Corps (Gen. de Bazelaire), 32ml Gorps (Gen. Passaga) astride theVisne, and. extending beyond the 5lh Corps (Gen. de Boissoudy) andthe 1st Corps (Gen. Muteau). East of Kheims the 4lh Army (Gen. Anthoine) was engaged only duringthe second stage of the bailie. At 6 on the 16th, in drenching rain, the 5th Army attacked all alongthe front in conjunction on the left with the 6th Army (Gen. Mangin), whichundertook to storm the Chemin-des-I)ames. The enemy was expecting theattack, and had concentrated very large forces and powerful artillery. Despitetheir bravery, the French were unable to break through. In the Rheiins sector, the 32nd Corps advanced three kilometers to the. EXPLANATORY MAP OF THE MILITARY OPERATIONS IN 1917 north of the Aisne. The 7th Corps crossed the canal at Loivre and capturedBermericourt in the morning, but was forced to give up part of the conqueredground in the afternoon, in consequence of a powerful German front of Brimont a brigade of the 38th Corps failed to pierce the enemyspositions. On the 17th, while the army of General Mazel resisted a violent enemycounter-attack, General Anthoine attacked from the east of Rheiins to Auberivewith the 8th Corps (Gen. Hely dOissel), 17th Corps (Gen. J. B. Dumas),12th Corps (Gen. Nourrisson). At , despite violent squalls of rainand snow, the French infantry rushed forward and carried the first Germanlines along a front of eleven kilometers. The 34th Division (Gen. de Lobit)carried the Mont Cornillet and Mont Blond hills, which the enemy attemptedin vain to recapture. On April 18 and 19, and May 4 and 5, the fighting was
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