Paris, Jan. 1 The communique issued this afternoon states:
"A mist in Belgium is hampering artillery, nevertheless there was a violent cannonade at Nieuport) and Ypres. The Belgians, southeast of Stuyvekens Kerke, have blown up a farm which was being) used by the enemy as an ammunition depot.
Our artillery at Tens dispersed the enemy's working parties and at Angres effectively bombarded their shelters and trenches. near Notre Dame de Lorette.
day northward of Soissons.
There has been heavy tga all action has been localized around the two eminences north-east and northwest of Orouy, of which we only: held the first slopes. Our counter. attack on the left made slight progress. We maintained our positions in the centre around Crouy despite! the repeated efforts of tke enemy, but eastward, before Vregny, we had to give way. The persistent rise of the Aisne, which resulted in the carrying away of large bridges and footbridge, rendering our communications precarious, we established ourselves to the south of the river from Crouy to Missy-sur-Aisne, with the bridge-heads to the) north bank in our posee cion.
On the rest of the Alone there was merely a cannonade while Perthes continued to be the theatre of local actions for the possession of the second and third lines of the enemy's trenches. We have blown up some sap-heads to the northward of Beau Séjour in order to impede the work of the enemy. The latter, thinking they were attacked, manned their trenches, whereupon we greeted them with a violent fusillade from our artillery and infantry.
There is nothing to report from the rest of the front.
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