communique states:
Late yesterday afternoon under cover of heavy rifle, machine-gun and artillery fire, the enemy attempted an infantry attack against a salient of our trenches northeast of Loos. The attack was driven back by our fire.
Yeaterday night the enemy was active with rifle and artillery fire east of Armentiéres.
Our artillery da; retaliated.
To-day the enemy exploded a mine at Fricourt and another east of Cuinchy. No damage was done, We sprung a mine cast of Given-
The hostile artillery was very active inst our trendbes north of Maricourt, between Loos and the La Bassce Canal, east of Armentitres and north of Wytachaete. We retaliated, damaging the hostile trenches in many places.
Pa Jan. 27.
The official communique issued this ovening states:
Our artillery was very active on the whole front throughout the day and the German trenches in Belgium were seriously damaged.
An attempt made by the enemy to recapture the craters east of Neuville was repulsed.
Fighting with mines in the Argonne continued in our favour. The enemy lost heavily in a struggle for the possession of a crater resulting from the explosion of two of our mines. We hold one of the edges of the crater. counter-attacks. The seriousness of the enemy losses in the preceding fight in this region is shown by the fact that 150 German bodies were counted in one of the recaptured craters.
The enemy violently bombarded Arras and our positions south of tha town, the Frenda vigorously replying.
The French guns wrecked the enemy works south of Lassigny. Jan. 29.
The official communique issued this afternoon reports:
'A sharp counterattack in Artois recaptured ® portion of the trench occupied by the Germans yest:
After a violent bombardment the enemy, south of the Somme, attacked on @ front of several kilometers The whole southern part of the attack failed completely, only succeeding on the actual bank of the Somme. The enemy's attacks have been stopped and the first French counter-attacks have reoccupied some trenches.
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