Paris, Jan. 2 The official communique issued this afternoon star:
The enemy delivered numerous attacks; all of these were repulsed.
There was a very Molent artillery engagement northward of the Lys.|* particularly along the dunes, Our artillery obtained good results along the Aisne, silencing the enemy's batteries and dispersing concentrations of men. We established ourselves on the Plateau of Nouvron in pits made by mine explosions and the Germans were unable to dislodge us. The enemy tly bombarded the region of Reims. We carried a wood in the Porthos district. The Germans made no counter-attack.
Local sapping in the Bois de la Grurie yesterday was resultless. We regained a portion of the ground we lost two days ago and are strongly holding our other position We retained the positions we have won in Woevre and made progress in the Bois lo Prétre.
Our troops repelled an attack three kilometres north-eastward of Badon-villiers, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. The enemy suffered severely at Steinbach, where we carried three more lines of houses, The official communtqué issued this evening states:
There is nothing fresh to report except a violent fusillade during the night against the French trend ches enst of Vermelles and north of Chaulnes and an unsuccessful German attack west of the forest of
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