Paris, Oct. 17.
The official communique issued at midnight states: Along the front there is a simple cannonade. Progress on the left wing continues and we have occupied Fromelles, to the south-west of Lille.
French marines along the canal from Ypres to the sca have repulsed a German attack, The Austrian and German armies on the middle Vistula have been compelled to remain on the defensive along the whole front. There is continual fighting to the south of Przemysl. The. Russians have taken 500 prisoners.
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