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Show oo WAR BULLETINS French Official Statement, Paris, Jan. 21, 2.45 p. in The Freuch war office this afternoon gave out a report on the progress of the war which reads a-s follows "From the sea to the Lys there were yesterday artillery' exchanges. From the Lys to the Soinme, on the plateau of Notre Dame De Lorette there occurred on the night of 19-20 the engagement reported last evening. To the south of the Somme and on the Alsne there were some artillery engagements, in the course of which we silenced the batteries of the enemy. en-emy. "In Champagne to the east of Rheims, in the region of Prosnes-los-Marquises-Moronvillers, we demolished demol-ished certain German field works, torced the enemy to evacuate his trenches, and brought about the explosion ex-plosion of a depot of ammunition. "To the northwest of Beausejour. we made progress by taking possession posses-sion by surprise of three of the enemy's en-emy's posts, here we installed our-seh-es. At a point to the north of Massigos our artillery was successful over the enemy. "There has been no change in the Argonne. To the southeast of St. Mihlel in the forest of Apremont we occupied 150 yards of German trenches trench-es and repulsed a counter attack To the northwest of Pont-a-Mousson, in the forest of LePretro, the enemy succeeded, by a violent counter attack., at-tack., in re-occnping about twenty of the 500 yards of trenches taken by us in recent days. Generally speaking we are holding ourselveo securely se-curely Id this position "In the section of Thann. the region of Silberlah - Hartmanf- Weilerkop there has been infantry fighting since the night of January 19-20. We are progressing slowly over t territory presenting great difficulties 1 New York, Ian. 21. The steamship Satsuma, formerly British, hut. now flying the American flag, arrived here today from Sunderland. ICncland. Her transfer to American registry was accomplished ac-complished at New Castle England, after the receipt by Captain Firrain of a cable message from Secretary of Si iii Bryan granting permission to makr the change. |