Paris, Jan. 6.
Bad weather on the Western Front slowed hostilities on land and in the air, French military officials said last night.
The official High Command communique said that there was "nothing important to be reported." Military officials said there was light activity west of the Saar River where artillery batteries were said to have exchanged Powerful French artillery bombarded German units and villages behind the German front lines today, according to military dispatches. Approximately 250 French and German troops were engaged in sharp patrol fighting, with the most severe fighting east of the Moselle River, where artillery barrages were also heavy, ihe French dispatches claimed. French troops made several successful raids in which many German prisoners were taken and German advance posts demolished, the reports said. A strong German attack was beaten back by French troops north lof the Rohrbach sector, it was stated—United Press.
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