'Telephone wires were cut, and communications with Sweden' were interrupted.
"The alarm was sounded at Helsink at 2.10 pin, but no planes appeared fand the all-clear was sounded at 345.
Paris, Jan, 13.
The weather on the Western Front remains bitterly cold and conditions are being aggravated by strong winds. Air activity on cither side has consequently been less than previous days, Dut" reconnaissance machines have made numerous fights over the line, escorted by fighters, In one aerial encounter, a German reconnoitring machine was brought Gown about 20 miles behind the (German long-distance reconnoitring. fights have Jed to two alr-raids on Atles, in north north-east France, Owing to low temperatures, patrols are less active in no-man's-land, but offset this the Germans have engaged in some artillery fire west and ast of the Vosges. The fire, however, has not been heavy, and seemed to have no particular object.
'A military communique issued here today says there has been nothing of importance to report on the Western Front during the past 24 hours.
An earlier communique reports that there was local activity by recon= halssanee units yesterday.—Reuter, Fest Br London, Jan. 13, The first British soldiers wounded in action on the Western Front are
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