OFFICIAL NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2359, 15 January 1915, Page 6

OFFICIAL NEWS.

: : MESSAGE TO THE GOVERNOR. The following cablegram las been re- : ;fceived by His Excellency the Governor ; the Secretary of' State for the Colj Monies: — - • , ' , ■ London, January 13. 8.5 p.m.—French . Tofficial news: "French Government rej 'ports severe fighting various points, i' Russian. Government also reports fights i ing various pointa. After night attack i on village Samico Germans .left 500 dead." | ; HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLE/ I The High Commissioner's report to I "tho Prime Minister, dated London, Jan- : uary 13, 6.5 p.m., states:. "Paris re- : ports that the persistent bad weather : has interfered with operations along tho i entire front. A struggle is still pro- ! peeling on Spur 132, north-west of Sois-' ' sons. Tho Allies aro maintaining their, I position on the top of the west slope, ' wiving grounJ on the east side. Be- ! Vivcen Soissons and Berry-au-Bac ' the j "irtillory caused explosions 'at various ■ joints among the . German batteries. ■ Tho salient of tlie redoubt north of Beausejour, in the Souain region, re- ■ mains in French- hands. A trench has been established ..sixty yards- from the Germans." London, January 14, , 4.30 a.m.— ; "Paris reports later that -north-east of ' Soissons the Allies' counter-attack has i progressed slightly, between Cufiies and i 'Crouy, but their troops wore unable to ; debouch from Crouy. Violently attack-" i'- r .(] eas t of this locality, the Allies fell • back slightly near the village of Mon- ; eel, which they, occupy."-