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The loss of the Thiescourt district on Monday compelled our

Allies to evacuate the woods of Carlepont and Ourscamp, lying to the east on the opposite bank of the Oise, which formed a sharp salient into the enemy's lines. The French fell back on the great Foret de l'Aigue, between the Oise and the Aisne, which screens Compiegne from the north-east. Foreseeing this, the enemy opened a new attack on Wednesday to the south of the Aisne, in the narrow belt of open country between the river and the extensive Fores:' of Villers-Cotterets. He made some progress in the centre, but failed to move the French on either flank. His design is, no doubt, to outflank the difficult woods which bar his advance north and south of the Aisne.

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