Paris, Dec. 28.
The official communique issued this evening says:
We continued our advance west of Lombaertzyde and reached vbe foot of the dunes, where the enemy had established a line of resi.tance.
We lost a section of our trenches south of Ypres, near Hollebeke.
In the region' of Lens, near Cre-nay, we captured 800 metres of the enemy's first line of trenches.
There has been intermittent cannonading in the Aisne and Champagne, which was especially intense in the districts of Reims and Perthes. The enemy paid special attention to the positions we had captured.
Wo have progressed slightly along the whole front on the heights of the Meuse.
The enemy bombarded the railway station of Bt. Die, but the railway service is uninterrupted.
'A German counter-attack to the north-east of Steinbach was te-pulsed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.