OPERATIONS IN FRANCE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13983, 13 January 1916, Page 6

OPERATIONS IN FRANCE.

The Prime Minister has received the foHoyir.g by cable f>-om the High Commissioner—

London,- Jan. .1.1, 5.55 p.m. Ob the Somme *nd the Oise trench artillery is active.

An enemy detachment, in tyying' to capture one posh in ihe section Ji)arm;uicourt, repulsed. The H.test news from Champagne confirms the fact that artillery and eenm-terrP.-ttecks fully <avtrted an enemy important attack in which three German divisions participated. French counterattacks drove the 'enemy from observation posts. Except in a small rectangle west or Maisons de Champagne, where detachments with difficulty sustain themselvtvs, the French line inflicted very heajvv' leases on the Germans.' London, Jan. 12, 1.50 a.m. Between the Arve and the Oisc. an enemy rc.conninUsance was decimated. Important damage was done to enemy ! «-orks in <l:o sector La Pompelle.