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Show GERMANS DRIVEN OUT OF TRENCH BY THE FRENCH PARIS, Jan. 23. The war office announced an-nounced tonight that the ground gained by the Germans east of Nieuport as a result of a raid this morning was retaken re-taken by the French by a rapid counterattack. counter-attack. The text of the announcement says: In Belgium there was cannonading in the Nieuport sector. The enemy detachment which penetrated one of our lines to the east of Nieuport th:s morning was immediately driven out. , , On the right bank of the Meuse the artillery was quite active in the sector of hill 344 and the front of Chaume wood. At the latter point an enemy en-emy attack, following upon a spirited bombardment, failed under our fire. In the period of January 1,-20, ten German airplanes were brought down. In addition, it is confirmed that four German machines, reported as having been seriously damaged in a preceding period, were in reality brought down, thus increasing to nineteen the number of machines destroyed de-stroyed by our pilots from January 1 t0 w- . . , , Belgian communication Aside from the usual dispersal shelling the day of Januarv 22 was marked only by a bombardment, without great intensity, in the region ot Scheeweg and Caeskerke. We brought down a German Ger-man airplane. Our batteries shelled tlie enemy batteries in action and carried out various fires, regulated bv our aviators. "Eastern theater. January 22: There is nothing of importance to report. |