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Show EYE WITNESS AT BATTLE FRONT Pans, Dec. 21, 11 p m The French war office tonight made public a report re-port of an eye-witness of events along the battle line from December 7 to December 15. It Bays During the period from the 7th to the i-r,th of December the ascendancy gained by our infantry has placed us n a position to make, in various sections sec-tions of the front, progress which B ems to have disturbed the enemy. The German infantry is more can tious and continuous sniping by them denotes a certain amount of nervousness. nervous-ness. The fact thai they are using searchlights and lighting rockets more and more reveals their fear of Hacks. After the expensive and useless experiments ex-periments of last month, our adversaries adver-saries seem almost everywhere to be r duced to defensive measures and it ie wt who on the whole of the front have assumed the offensive Also in the artillery duels oui bat teriea are showing more and more their superiority Attacked Trenches. Between the sea and the Lys river the enemy, who from the 7th to the 8th instant had contented themselves with bombarding our lines and par ticularly the city of Ypres. on the 10th instant directed to the souili ol that city three infantry attacks against our ttenche:- The first two of these attacks were repulsed. The third reached our first line of trenches, but on the follow ine, night we regained this position Oil ihe IJJth the entmy made another attack, which also was repulsed. On the 14th our infantry took the offensive, in spite of the exceedingly muddy condition of the field, and succeeded in capturing a German trench several hundred meters in length. Our infantry here held their ground against fierce counter attacks by the enemy |
