The windows and the doors have been converted into firewood, and the wind whistles through them.

The ambulance waggons of the Press alone have brought in nearly 500 men frost-bitten, or taken suddenly ill.

From the batteries at Bondy and Avron there has been some sharp firing, the object of which has been to oblige the Prussians to keep inside the Forest of Bondy, and to disquiet them whenever they take to digging anywhere outside it.

The plain of Avron is a very important position as it commands the whole country round.

The end of Le Bourget, towards Paris appears entirely deserted.