British attacks during the night from the 2th to the 25th instant have been repulsed. The success of the fighting near St. Hubert with the Indiane and the British could only to-day be ascertained. Nineteen officers and 819 coloured and British prisoners have been made and fourteen machine guns, twelve mine throwers, several searchlights and other war material captured. The enemy left on the battlefield yer 3,000 dead. A truce for bury-dead has been asked for by the British and granted. The German losses are small in proportion.
In skirmishes near Tracy-lo-Val, northeast of Compiegne, the Ger. hausen, and in Upper Alsace west of Benthoim and south-west of Lo birch, some skirmishes took place, yesterday, but the situation is un.
On the 20th instant French aviator threw bombs on @ village though there was only a hospital, which was easily recognizable tors. No damage worth mentioning was done, In retaliation for this act and the former throwing of bombs on the open town of Freiburg, which is situated outside the range of operations, some places in the enemy's positions in Nancy were thrown at with middlesized bombs.
In the eastern theatre of war the Russian attacks on the position near Lostzen have been repulsed. One thousand Russians have been taken prisoners.
In north Poland the situation is ed by them advanced against the mouths of the German rivers and dropped bombs on anchored ships and 8 near Ouxhaven, without, however, hitting them or doing damage to them. When the British aeroplanes were fired at they withdrew in @ westerly direction, German airships and sero-planes reconnoitred against the British forces and hit by bombs two British destroyers and one convoy Fire broke out on the latter. Fog prevented the fighting being oontinued.
The "Deutscher Uebereeedienst reports:
The German Secretaries of State and the Prussian Ministers have contributed together Mka, 30,000 for Christmas presents for soldiers who have no relatives or are poor.
The Germans found in the dis trict of Roubaix in the French detment of Nord, s town of spinning and weaving mills, which produce every year nearly half a milliard marks worth of cotton and woollen goods, wool valued at three hundred million marks, which is now at the disposal of Germany.
The "Vossische Zeitung" publishes letters addressed by British publishing houses to Italian bool stores requesting them to swear that the books purchased dre not for sale in Germany or Austria-Hungary. The cost of the sworn declaration is 1/6 which is charged to the Italian buyers.
Great Britain's foreign trade during the mon! of August to November has dwindled enormously. The imports have by £62,560,000 or 94.4 per cent, while the exports have gone down £73,826,000, a decrease of 41.5 per cent. During the months of November and December the decrease of the British exports a by mounts to 45 per cent., which speaks sufficiently for the success of the British commercial warfare.
The Turkish headquarters report that the Caucasian Army has chased the Russians near Id across the frontier and has taken several Russian positions, the Russians treating in great disorder.
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