Through Renter's Agency.
Paris, Jan. 4 The official communtgué issued this afternoon states: ''From the North Sea to the Oise the day was quiet and the weather wet. There were some artillery duels. Our heavy gues, opposite Noulettes, silenced the German batteries. There has been particularly violent cannonading slong the Aline and in Champagne: our batteries maintained their superiority and shelled violently the enemy's reserves. In the region of Berthes we seized several points d'apput There has been ater intermittent cannonading from the Argonne to the Meuse and on the eights of the Meuse. Our troops unsuccessfully attempted to carry Boureuilles by assault. Our progress continued at Bois lo Pretre. We carried an important height to the westward of Oernay and repulsed & counter-attack.
Our progress in Upper Alsace was again marked. Yesterday we occupied the neighbourhood of the church at Steinbach and the cemetery.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.