Paris, Jan. 15.
The communique issued this afternoon says:—"There have been lively artillery combats from the North Sea to the Lys, "We have progressed in the regions of Lombartzyde and Becelaere.
"The Zouaves, northward of after a brilliant bayonet attack, carried the road from Arras to Lille.
"Our guns at Latargette and St. Laurent silenced the enemy's batteries, wrecked two guns, exploded an ammunition depot, and destroyed the works which the enemy were building.
The Germans attacked the village of St. Paul, two kilometres to the north-east of Soissons, and entered the village, but we retook it immediately.
There hag been a violent artillery fight in the regions of Craonne and Reims; we frequently silenced the enemy's batteries.
We have destroyed the footbridges thrown across the Meuse by the Germans at St. Mibiel.
We repulsed in the Bois de Ailly an attack on the trenches we had captured.
Our infantry in the Vosges, southward of Sonones, a lively fight, drove the Germans backward, cut their barbed wire en tang! ments, and filled up the enemy' trenches,
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