Paris, Dec. 17.
The official bulletin issued eleven o'clock this evening states:
"We have gained ground north of Ypres, on-the Menin road and south and south-east of Bixechoote.
We debouched north-east of Arras and reached the first houses of St, Laurent Blancy. and Mariecourt in Bapaume, in the Peronne region.
Nothing worthy of note occurred between the Somme and the Vosges.
[Rom raeNcn CONSUL, SHANOMAT.] Paris, Dec. 17.
Official:—The Allies have consolidated the positions taken at Bt. George's and Lombaertzyde, extending their left up to the ses. They carried with the bayonet several trenches and took over 100 prisoners weet of Gheluvelt.
They carried over 400 metres of German trenches and gained ground in the region of Vermelles, south of La Bassée, Near Tracy-lo-Val they' knocked down the German observation and destroyed some quickfirers. There has been no infantry action, but very effective bombardment by our heavy artillery on the Aisne, in Champagne, and the Argonne and in the region of Verdun.
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