During the afternoon our gains in this sector were extended northward; Dun-sur-Meuse was captured and our line pushed forward a mile beyond that town, as far as the village of Nièlly. The troops of Maj.-Gen. Sunmerall’s Corps reached the river at Cesse and Luzy and mopped up the forest of Jaulnay. The important road center of Beaumont fell before our victorious forces, who pushed on to the Bois de l’Hospice, two miles north of that town, capturing in their advance the village of Létanne. At Beaumont we liberated five hundred French citizens, who welcomed our soldiers as deliverers. The advance of the past two days has carried our line to points within five miles of the Sedan-Metz railroad, the main line of communications of the German armies. Between Beaumont and Bar Maj.-Gen. Dickman’s Corps, in close liaison with the French Fourth Army on its left, pushed forward under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire through the rugged forest areas beyond Stonne. The villages of Yoncq, La Basace, and Stonne were taken. We have taken to-day west of the Meuse 51 additional guns, making a total of more than 150 since November 1st. Thirty of our bombing planes executed a successful raid on Mouzon and Raucourt this morning, dropping over two tons of bombs with good effect. Reconnaissance and pursuit squadrons carried out many successful missions, machine-gunning enemy troops and greatly assisting the advance of our troops. Seventeen enemy planes were shot down and two enemy balloons burned. Seven of our planes are missing. [15] And now let all those come who love Paradise, the place of quiet, the place of safety, the place of eternal happiness, the place where the Barbarian may be feared no more.—ST. AUGUSTINE, _Upon the Barbarian Persecution_. [16] “S’Strassburger Münster isch s’höschet, s’Friburgers’ dickscht, aver S’Thanner s’fienecht.” [17] Some of the jokes that were Hansi’s undoing were exceedingly harmless, as, for instance, the domestic revelations of Frau Professor Kugelberg, who answers to the correspondence column the following: “No, I never throw away the old trousers of my husband. I have had great success with cutting them skilfully and employing the least worn parts, in constructing for my young daughters charming and dainty corset-covers, which have the merit also of being very inexpensive. Trimmed with white ribbons, these corset-covers have quite a virginal air, but also with apple-green and cherry-red bows they can be made most attractive.” As for “Professor Knatschke” he is now a classic. The Alsatians have, in a very marked degree, what one might call the wit of border peoples, the tongue often being the only weapon left them. [18] Gilles Sifferlen, _La Vallée de St.-Amarin_, 1908. [19] Fairies: kindred to the “green people” of Ireland. [20] “I will have thee, I will have thee, I will have thee.”