OFFICIAL NEWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2302, 9 November 1914, Page 6

OFFICIAL NEWS

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLES The following messages have been received by tho Prime Minister, from the High Commissioner: — , London, November 6, 6.45 p.m. . Paris reports that there was no appreciable chango during yesterday along the whole front. Fighting continues on the same scale as before between Dixmudo and the Lys, ■ without any marked advance ,or retreat. Violent cannonades to tlio north of Arras have been without result. The German effort in Belgium and the North of France has been prolonged. Tho Germans seem about to make changes in the composition of their forces operating in this region, and to be reinforcing their reservo forces of new. formations, which have been severely handled,.with active troops in order to attempt a new offensive or counter-at-tack. Sanguinary defeats been, inflicted upon' them between the Somme and the Oise and between the Oise and the Meuse in the detailed actions which have been fought. A-column of German wagons ■ was destroyed by our artillery in the region of Nampoel, near Berry Au Bac. We have retaken the village of Sapigneul, which the Germans had captured. Desperate -fighting has taken place in the Argonne, where by bayonet actions our troops repulsed the Germans. In,the Woeuvre fresh attacks by the enemy were repulsod. There has been a great Russian victory in Galicia. TAKING OF KIAO-CHATJ. London, November 10.40 a.m. Official.—Eiao-chan has surrendered. The Governor-General of South Africa reports that for the last few days things have been quiet in tho Orange State. Tliis is attributed to conversations passing between Do Wet and other prominent Orange State leaders. The Government desires to avoid unnecessary bloodshed, and has. refrained from any provocative attitude ■ while conversations are in progress.