A Berlin communique says that. the Germans stormed the Heights of Vregny, north-east of Boissons, in pouring rain. They carried trench after trench till darkness and took 14 French officers and} 1,130 men, four guns ind four machine-guns. "The glorious deed was done under the eyes of the! Kaiser." The Germans admit that the French have penetrated their lines eastward of Porthos.
Paris, Jan. 14.
The effigial communique issued this evening states:
"Last night we succeeded by a coupe de-main in wrecking the recently constructed German trenches north-west of Fouquescourt, north of Raye.
The enemy's attacks north Soissons have been checked. the prime cause of our giving way was the destruction of bridges by The] flood in the Aisne. We rendered useless some guns which we were obliged to abandon owing to the collapse of a bridge. The Germans captured a number of prisoners, notably wounded whom it was impossible to remove in our retreat. We, however, captured a considerable number of unwounded _prisoners. Summing up—the Germans scored a partial success which cannot influence the operations as a whole."
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