| Show FRENCH OFFENSIVE MOVEMENT IS REPORTED Germans Germans' Attempt Sorties but Are Driven Back to Trenches HAND TO HAND FIGHT Russians Surprise T at 4 a. a m. m and Capture Post BERLIN Dec 28 via wireless wireless wire wire- less les to Sayville An An offensive movement by oy the French who have attacked the German lines at is announced by German Gennan army headquarters In today's official statement Details regarding the outcome of the attack are lacking the statement adds Allied monitors have shelled Westende Westende Westende West- West ende on the the Belgian gian coast three residents residents resi resl- dents being kl killed led two of whom were women it ft i la 18 declared Train movements at the station were stopped by German Gennan artillery ar ar artillery artillery tillery fire the report states On the eastern front the repulse of Russian reconnoitering detachments on the on-the the Beresina northwest of Czar- Czar and near is re reported reported re- re ported PARIS Dec 28 An 2 An artillery en engagement engagement en- en of ot great activity over the whole front in the was re reported reported ye- ye ported in the communication this afternoon afternoon afternoon af af- af- af from the war office The statement follows In the there is is s intense activity activity activity ac ac- ac- ac on the part of the artillery over the whole front At H Weil Hartmans-Weil- on the southeastern slope Weil-j Weil of oft t the e hill at an attempt of the enemy to make a sortie from his trenches was arrested by a a. curtain of I fire There were no events of importance import- import I ance along the rest st of the fr front t re 1 PETROGRAD via London Dec 28 The The official statement issued today by the general headquarters read as follows Western front At In Inthe inthe inthe the direction of the coast region a a. Russian detachment organized a sur surprise surprise sur sur- prise attack upon a a. German post At 4 o'clock in the morning the Russians Russians' approached being seen cut the wire obstacles in in many places threw themselves upon the German huts flung flung- hand grenades through the windows and hand to hand en encounter encounter en i counter destroyed the whole post Six prisoners were ere taken In spite of a heavy fire from the south the Russians Russians Rus Bus retired successfully with insignificant losses In the region of station near a a cemetery in the village of or Novo we annihilated an another another an- an other German post post- taking sixteen prisoners In the Black sea near the Bulgarian Bulgarian Bulgarian Bul Bul- garian shore our torpedo boats de destroyed destroyed destroyed de- de two sailing vessels and bombarded bom born barded posts upon the shore The I enemy's submarines attacked our de destroyer destroyer destroyer de- de the near the Bulgarian Bulgarian Bul But garian coast The skillfully evaded two torpedoes and repulsed an 31 attack by gunfire There Is reason to believe th that t one of the was was sunk Caucasus f front ont West of or Khama- Khama dan bur our troops occupied the town of In a fight near the village of forty about 27 21 miles southwest of Teheran Teheran Te To- heran with Persian gendarmes and tribes of Emir we took tool prisoner seventy-one seventy insurgents |
