Peking, Nov. 5.
The following official telegram from Foreign Office has been handed to Reuter's Agency, Peking London, Nov. 4.
The Germans are spreading _reports in the Chinese Press that their operations round Foul and Verdun have ben crowned with success. This is absolutely fal: Verdun has not even been bombarded. Attacks have been made against the minor forte between these two great fortresses, but they have met with no success. The German offensive in this part of the front has entirely failed and the road to Paris is quite closed to the German armies,
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