OFFICIAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2343, 28 December 1914, Page 5

OFFICIAL

The Prime Minister has received thlp following message from the' High Oom*'f,, missionor:— / • . > London, December 25. Paris reports that south: of theOisfife : ; the. French;; , artillery, smashed: thej-V----endmy's '■ defensive;- .- •' ■'■ In the region of Vailly, on the teau of Nouyron, and north of SapigJ ... neti, a strong counter-attack by. thei ; ; ' ■ enemy completely failed. ' : ; North of Mesnil and east of Perthes : the Allies now occupy tho entire firsfc ■ line of the .enemy's defence. Yin" tha<; : region of Cuisy.and th"o'Bois"de"Fo"rges, , ' , tho French heavy artillery'mastered thej ~ German batteries, enabling the infantrjj : .: to make.a marked advance.-.' :.,-': Petrograd reports"that'eaet of Skierji -.; ■;} niowice,..- on .the. German right, an att -.; :■•.. tack was .repulsed 'with. very. heavjf'Wv losses. \ i ' :' V.'.; London, December • 26. ,-;;. ;• Paris reports ..that fog,. paralyses(...f; operations from the sea'to the";Ljs/.. From the Lys to tho Oiso we'.' re-< . pulsed several, counter-attacks.- LihonS;.;V. trenches, previously taken, ■ '; and retaken after a lively AtJjPerthes our artillery silenced the enemy, ■'•■-. batteries ' bombardinp; tlio::; recently- , taken trenches. There were twovvio J lent German night attacks on the 2-ltK and yesterday. 'There ■•weie.;fresh and particularly' violent ■counter-attacks oni a fifteen hundred metres' front' which! - completely, failed. In UpperAlsaco con< sidorablo progress has , been made . Russians. report that the 'Germans" - were thrown back over the river Bzura: - with considerable loss. All attacks on , Bolimo\v faM. Along tho river Nidas course and south of - 'tho.".'Vistula the : battle continues under favouraWo conditions for Russia. 'v- ; "■'■"'.■;'-.■ "■'.'■ .::..V' London, Decemhcr'26, 1.30 aim..' :: Petrograd report the defeat' of: yiffJ : ; ; ofous Turkish attacks at : Sar«-Kanush> V Tlie Turkish movement, in the Van, re» ' gion,. has been ~.' / -- ■ :!;. ' The German forces pn the riglit )iix&,^ : r-: af-thojßmai.ha^^fle^^te^;:^ ■■: -:'ft;;;,-