Along the coast

Allies make headway

Set-back near Ypres

PARIS - the following communique was issued:

In Belgium we have continued to advance to the west of Lombartside, we are now actually at the bottom of the dunes on which the enemy has established his line of resistance.

To the south of Ypres we have lost a part of the trenches but in the region of Lens near Carency, the enemy has ceded, before our attack, 800 metres of front line trenches.

In the valley of the Aisne and in Champagne, intermittent fighting has been particularly intense in the region of Rheims and in that of Perthes where the enemy has made a special mark of the positions which we captured to the west of that locality.

On the heights of the Meuse slight progress has been made by our troops along the whole front.

In the Vosges, the enemy has bombarded the railway station of St Die, the service however has not been interrupted.

In Upper Alsace a German counter attack has been repulsed.

Storm delays messages

THE Post office shortly after midnight intimated that owing to the storm there were serious interruptions in the telegraphic communication with France and there was little prospect of the receipt of the evening official war bulletin and it was doubtful whether any messages from this side would get through to Paris during the night, in any case there would be many hours delay.

There are no Dutch wires in operation at all and only one in Belgium which would probably be appropriated for government work and no other messages either way would get through.

German admissions

FROM German sources it is stated that the weather is vile in Poland and Berlin and makes the singularly frank admission that in marked advantage has been won either by the Austrians or the Germans.

In other words the offensive movement towards Warsaw and to the relief in Przemsyl in Galicia have both been held up by the Russians.

The Petrograd statement is as follows: There were no engagements of importance yesterday at the Lower Vistula and isolated attacks of the Germans were everywhere repulsed.

The Germans suffered grave losses.