OFFICIAL NEWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2367, 25 January 1915, Page 5

OFFICIAL NEWS

The Prime Minister has received tta following from the High Commissioner! London, January 22, 5.5 p.m. ; Paris reports: "The enemy Jwaf barded Nieuport with considerable violence. The Allies' infantry made slighl progress near Lombaertzyde. Betweer Ypres and Oise the artillery was effeo tive on the enemy's earthworks. Neai Berry-au-Bao we retook a trench, pre viously lost by the enemy's bombard ment. In <-he Forest of Aprcmont bom bardment prevented the rotention o the German trenches captured jester day over a length of 150 yards. In th. Le Petro wood, near Pont-a-Mousson the enemy have retaken pnrfc of t-li* trenches captured by the Allies oi Wednesday. The Allies aro holdin,' tho rost-, The German batteries wer silenced at the Col du Bonhommo am tho Col du Sckludt (on the frontier o Alsace, due east of Epinal).- An in fantry action at Hardmannsweilerkoi continues with extreme bitterness am literally hand-to-hand encounters. Ii front of Dannemarie tho artillery, dis persed the 'enemy's formation."London, January 23, 6.16 a.m.- , Paris reports: "Tho enemy is shQiv ing greater aotivity south-east of Yprei In the distriot of Bois de Saint Mard,: German battery was silenced. In th Argonne, the enemy was repulsed a Fontaine Madame by vigorous conntei attacks by the Allies. At Marie-The rese works, south of Fontainelamta there was a struggle all day, wit great strenuousness on both sides. A nightfall all the Allies' positions wer maintained. Pronounced Gorman nigh attacks at Hartmannsweilorkoff - failed. "Petrograd, states that tho. Russia: lines in the Lower Vistula "to Chorzel are in close contact with the' clients and there has been serious skirmishes llie Austrians are concentrating i Bukowina."