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Show FRENCH DENV THE LOSS OFWARSHIP Pans. Jan. 3 The period of comparative com-parative calm which has existed on all the battle fronts for some time except in Rumania continues. In no theatre aside aside from Rumania has an important im-portant engagement taken place, the ,1'iivity evcrj where being carried out hy means of the artillery and bj small patrol parties. On the western front lively artil-ler) artil-ler) duels are in progress In Belgium and on several sectors in the region of Verdun. On the Austro-Italian frontier bombardments alone have taken place There is still no news concerning the operations in Macedonia Mace-donia win less report from Berlin credited credit-ed to Sw iss sources, advises to the effect ef-fect that a German submarine has torpedoed and badly damaged, near Malta, the FTench battleship Verite. Is declared bj the French ministry of marine to be absolutely false. Another An-other Berlin report says that since the beginning of the war entente warships of a total tonnage of 7ri9,430 tons, not including auxiliaries and special type ships, have been sunk Petrograd, via London, Jan. 3. 10-16 p. m.. British admiralty by Wireless i Press. The Russian official communication commu-nication today says. "Western (Russian) front enemy airplanes have displayed considerable activity and dropped bombs at various va-rious 'points. One machine was brought down by our artillery near ihe village of Iva near Vishnevka i lake. The aviators were made pris-I pris-I oner. In the region of Porskaia Vuka. southeast of Kozel, our aviators brought down two airplanes. Both were smashed and the four aviators i killed by the fall 'In the direction of Zalogev the enemy bombarded with a strong ar-tillerv ar-tillerv fire the village of Batkuv, Manaiux and Garbuzov, after which his nfantr) took the offensive along I the above front Notwithstanding our artillery fire the enemy succeeded succeed-ed in breaking into a trench occupied occu-pied by one of our companies, but as a result of oui counter-attack he was immediately driven out and dispersed dis-persed Simultaneously, t neigh-i neigh-i borhood of the village of Manilovka was bombarded with shells, which sent out a yellow smoke which took a long time to disappear. "On the Dneister in the region of ezupol out artillery fire drove away a working party which was prepai-ln prepai-ln entrenchments and also successfully success-fully bombarded lezupol. "On tho Moldavian frontier the enemy twice assumed ihe offensive on the sector extendiug from the v il I lage of Kotumba to as far as the valley of the river Sulcha, and south beyond thai point, but everywhere w-as repulsed. In this region we regained re-gained a portion of the trenches lost I by us yesterday on one of the heights. 'On the Rumanian front 'the Rumanians Ru-manians are conducting attacks north of the KaSlno river, eight versts I east of the Hungarian frontier The I enemy in hf morning attacked the 'Rumanians east of SopchaB OH the I upper reaches of Ihe river Suchitza. 00 |