, 1915-01-13
SUPPLEMENT TO ST. CRoIx AVIS No. 4, 18TH JANUARY 1918

the Champagne region two counter-attacks
by the Germans, one north of Peithes and
the other north of Beausejour were repulsed.
In the Argonne two minor attacks by the
enemy failed, At Fontaine Madame and
s.. Hubert q lively fnsillade occurred in the
direction of Hill 263, west of Bournevilles
and on LIE Russeau Des NourissonS."
A German official statement says: "Bad
weather lasted through yesterday in the
western theatre, the Lys has in certain places
flooded the country to the width of 500
metres. The enemy's attempts to eject as
from our positions on the sand dunes and
Newport have failed. Northeast Of Sois-
sons the French repeated their attacks, but
were all repulsed yesterday with great losses
to the enemy, and we captured over on5
hundred prisoners. The battles at Scissors
itself began again to-day. Near Perthes,
northeast of Camp Dechalons, the French
again f%ercely attacked, but their attacks
broke dOwn with very heavy losses to them
and we took about IA prisoners. In the
Argonne we gained further ground, and in
this district aud also in the neighbourhood Of
Apremont and north of Toul, the battles con-
tinue, On Friday evening the French again
tried to take Burnhaupt by a night attack,
which failed completely, and our troops took
ZOO more pTlS0u6Tb ADu one machine GuuS
the prisoners taken being increased to
two officers and 42O men, The French ap-
parently suffered heavy losses on this occa-
sion also, great numbers of killed and injured
lying before our front and IN the neighbour
hood of the woods, There were only trivial
engagements yesterday in upper Alsace, but
about midnight our troops repealed a French
attack from Aspach. The weather in the
eastern theatre has not improved and the
situation is unchanged on the entire eastern
front Unimportant Russian advances south
Of MlawR were repulsed,"
A Russian official communicate announces:
"On the left bank of the Yistula there have
been only desultory engagements. During
Friday night and throughout Saturday the
Germans directed four successive attacks
against us. Iii the northern region our
troops proceeded by sapping and pelted the
Germans with hand granades, forcing them
out of their trenches and levelling their
works, In the region of Moghely farm we
advanced and succeeded in taking O part of
the German trenches in which we entrench-
ed ourselves, On the Austrian front there
have been no important changes, our attacks
there, however, have succeeded, and the Aus
TRANS have retreated everywhere and we
took some prisoners"
Unofficial Austrian dispatches state that
the general situation remains unchanged,
South of the Vistula the Russians yesterday
bombarded our positions without result,
directing their fire particularly against our
positions on the heights north-east of Zaklic-
zyn, in Galicia. North of the VistuIa at
some points there have been heavy artillery
battles, while an attempt by the enemy to
cross the river Nida with weak forces failed.
The situation in the Carpathiaus is quiet,
Two accommodating d%etacbments of the enc
my in Bukowina were destroyed by machine
gun fire, while in some advanced positions
iR the Southern theatre from a point east of
Trebinge, i'll Herzegovina, TO the frontier,
there were brief artillery duels.