_La Belgique_, Monday, 1st February, 1913.--PARIS, _29th January_. (Official, 3 p.m.)--In Belgium, in the Nieuport sector, our infantry has gained a footing on the great dune which was mentioned on the 27th. _A German aeroplane was brought down by our guns._ In the sectors of Ypres and Lens, as in the sector of Arras, there have been, intermittently, artillery duels of some violence, and some attacks of infantry were attempted but immediately _thrown back by our fire_. Nothing fresh to report in the Soissons, Craonne, or Reims districts. _It is confirmed that the attack repulsed by us at Fontaine-Madame on the night of the 27th cost the Germans dearly...._ PARIS, _the 29th January_ (_official, 11 p.m._).... _This morning, the 29th, a German aeroplane was forced to the ground east of Gerbeviller. Its passengers, an officer and an under-officer, are prisoners._ _La Belgique_, Thursday, 4th February, 1915.--PARIS, _1st February_. (Official telegram, 3 p.m.).... To the south-east of Ypres the Germans have attempted an attack upon our trenches to the north of the canal, an attack which was _immediately_ checked by our artillery fire.... In the Argonne, _where the Germans appear to have suffered greatly in the recent fighting_, the day has been comparatively quiet.... PARIS, _1st February_. (Official telegram, 11 p.m.).... On the morning of the 1st February the enemy violently attacked our trenches to the north, Béthune--La Bassée. He was thrown back _and left numerous dead on the ground_. At Beaumont-Hamel, to the north of Arras, the German infantry attempted to carry one of our trenches by surprise, but was forced to retreat, _abandoning on the spot the explosives with which it was provided_.... _La Belgique_, Friday, 12th February, 1915.--PARIS, _9th February_. (Official telegram, 3 p.m.).... Along the road from Béthune to La Bassée we have reoccupied a windmill in which the enemy had succeeded in establishing himself. Soissons was bombarded _with incendiary shells_. _La Belgique_, Saturday, 13th February, 1915.--PARIS, _10th February_. (Official, 11 p.m.).... In Lorraine our outposts _easily_ repulsed a German attack on the eastern edge and to the north of the Forest of Purvy. _La Patrie_ (Brussels).--COPENHAGEN, _2nd March_.--According to a communication from London in the _Berlingske Tidende_ the Swedish painter, Johnson, who was arrested as a spy, because he was making pretended luminous signals to German ships of war, is _said to have been_ acquitted for lack of evidence. To appreciate at its full value the mutilation of the official communiqués by the German censorship, it must be recalled (1) that it had undertaken to leave the official communiqués untouched, and (2) that the subservient portion of the press continued to call them "official telegrams." _Sincerity of the Censored Newspapers._