Paris, Feb. 21.
Some artillery and infantry fire occurred on various points of the front during the past 24 hours, it is stated in a communique issued here. Firing was especially brisk in the Vosges district and along the Rhine.
A great thaw has now set in on the Western Front, and is reducing ever: thing to mud and water, "Hente, operations are few, and all-sectors üre generally calm, with the exception of the Rhine sector, where there ere sporadic exchanges of fire between casemated.
Two German raids occurred yesterday but as they were made without trench mortar or artillery preparation they were repulsed with ease.
Further details of the ambush of a French detachment on Sunday, which resulted in the loss of over twenty men, show that it occurred when two lorries, packed with troops to relieve others in the front-line, drove by mistake right across no-man's-land into the German line. German outposts commanding the road raked the lorries with machine-gun fire and threw hand-grenades at them.
It is announced in French naval circles that British and French naval vessels yesterday afternoon attacked several submarines, but it is not possible to say with what result.—Reuter.
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