The official communique issued this evening states:
There has been very violent fighting in Upper Alsace in the region of. The French forces, last night, lost and then recaptured the neighbourhood of the church at Steinbach and, this morning, carried the entire village. The French lost for a short time the German works which they captured west of Cemay, but the Germans were unable to hold their ground and the position remains in the hands of the French.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.