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REVIEW OF THE SITUATION
ALLIES' STRONG POSITION.
THE KAISER'S DECREE AND
THE RESULT.
_
PARIS, January 31. An
official review of the situation at the
front issued by the French War
Office says - J.
''The Allies have consolidated, and
extended their positions in front of
the bridgehead over the Yser, near
i Nieuport The advance made daily is
small owing to the gales which have
pi ox asked of late and the impossibility
I of digging deep trenches in the sand
near the sea The Belgian artillery has
given the troops remarkably effective
support
After recounting the results of the
fighting at Ginchy mel Givenchy near
La Bassee and it Blangv near Arras
the statement proceeds -
The Kaiser issued a decree that
the French must be di is en from Mr
BoiscUq a few miles north cost of M
1 ert on January 18 (the 44th anniver
buy of the day January 18 1871 on
which the King of Prussia was pro-
el stated Emperor of German j at Ver
sallies) in order to celebrate the anniversary
of the foundation of the, German
Empire He also promised 700
marks (about 30) to my German sol-
dier who brought back a French
machine gun The only result of the
Imperial elected was that nine German
attacks were uncle and were all in
pulsed The German prisoners taken
here admit that we have mastered then
in tiller both in the onset of shells
fired met in then efleitncnesb
We have maintain law and consolidated
all our gains to the east of Rheims
round Piunav house Perthes Beau
Sejour and Messages The mud and th
fots however, are now hampering the
work of our artillery in tins legion and
' this his led the French commander to
a, determination not to push the ad
vantage famed by the French say for
them at present
Y o Recently I passed no fewer than
15 German attacks in the Forest of
Argonne We obtained an important
success in the Bois le Pretre but were
unable to in untain entirely the new
positions gained though the German
line has been seriously ! token
a. German gone it has been Killed?
in the fighting round They. in the
Woevre district '
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