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Ostaaiatischer Lloyd, Berlin, Jan. 15.
The German Foreign Office publishes the following report:
Headquarters, Jan. 15.
Yesterday some destroyers and smaller vessels approached the coast of Westende at a distance of fourteen kilometres.
The French attacks on both sides of Notre Dame de Lorette, northwest of Arras, have been repulsed by the Germans. A trench taken a work ago ut Ecurie, north of Arras, and occupied by a ow Germans was lost again yesterday. The fighting is continuing the e.
North and north-east of Soissons the northern bank of the Aisne is definitely cleared of the French. The Germans have taken, continually fighting, Cuffles, Crony, Buoy-ce-Long and Mi The result of the three days' fighting is about 5,200 prisoners, fourteen guns, six machine guns and some revolver guns. The French had heavy losses; four to five thousand dead French were found 1 the battlefield. The retreating enviay crossed the Aisne under the fire of the German heavy batteries.
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