Paris, Jan, 27.
The official communique issued this afternoon states: "There was artillery fighting at Nieuport and Ypres.
Statements made by prisoners show that it wae a brigade, not battalion, which attacked us eastward of Ypres yesterday. The enemy lost a battalion and a half. The Belgians wrecked an aeroplane.
It is confirmed that at Givenchy and Cuinchy, near La Bascée, the Germans suffered a severe reverse yesterday. On the La Bassée Road at Bethune the dead bodies of six German officers and 400 men were picked up; the total German losses therefore were at least two battalions.
There were artillery duels from Lens to Soistons. We maintained our positions in the trenches captured near Craonne and repulsed four violent attacks on will 200 near Porthos, A German attack near Porthos was repelled at the point of the bayonet.
'At St. Mihiel we destroyed some new pontoons over the Mous Elsewhere the situation was quiet.' Paris, Jan, 27.
The official communique issued this evening states The enemy attempted a coup de main last night in the wood of Saint Mard, in the district of Tracy-leval. After a sharp fusillade they exploded some mines, wrecking our trenches over a front of fifty metres, but our artillery prevented them from establishing themselves and the trenches have since been reoccupied.
West of Craonne the night passed quietly. A
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