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Show FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY THE WEST BANK OF YSER P4JEUS Dec, 12, 2 48 p m The French I official bulletin given out in Paris this afternoon sas that French troops now occupy the west bank of the Yser canaL 1 Artillery engagements aJl of them result tng more or less advantageous y to the French, are reported in the region of Ar ras near Nampcel n the Alsne in the tJ region of Perthes near the forest of La 3 t Grurie on the he ghts of the Meuse and N! in the Vosyes The text of the communl I cation fol ows The enemy has comp eted the e acuatlon of the west bank of the Tser canal to the north of the house of the ferry and we occupy th s bank. ; In the eg on of Arras tl ere have been artil ery engagements In t e region of Nampcel our batteries have reduced to s ence the batteries of the i enemy In the region of the A sne our heay artillery s enced the tied batteries of the Germans At a point northeast of Val y one of their bat teries of howitzers was completely destroyed In the region of Perthes and In the vicinity of the forest of La Grurie there have been artl ery engage ments and some Infantry fl hti g I which resu ted ad antageous y to us On the heights of the Meuse the artillery of the enemy showed s ght activity On the oontrary our artil lery demolished at Deuxenouds to the west of Vigneulles les Hattonchatel 13 two batteries of the enemy one co n SH posed of guns of large caliber and the 89 other used for firing up . atora In T this same region we have blown up a a. blockhouse and destroyed several it trenches. 3 Between the Meuse and the Mosel e T4 there Is nothing to report and in the Voeges there have been artillery en f easements. In the reg on of Senones I we have conso ldated the positions gained by us the evening before Russia In the region of Mlawa vio lent attacks on the part of the Ger mans have been repulsed and the Russians again have taken the of I Ifenelv against co urans of the en j emy that are retiring in d sorder In the region to the north of Lowicz ! ferocious Ge man at acks have been also e eryw bere repu sed with hea 7 losses for them. In the region south of Cracow the Russ an offensive has been successful ly cont nued despite a stubborn re s stance In Servla The Sen lan arm ea wh oh had reached the Kolubara river have cro sed this stream between the Va Jevo which has been occupied by them and the Junot on of the LJld To the north they ha e occup ed La zareva z The nun ber of pr sonera taken by the Serbians in the course of these recent engagements reaches tl e total qf about 18 000 men |