OFFICIAL NEWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2377, 5 February 1915, Page 5

OFFICIAL NEWS

EASTERN AND WESTERN CAMPAIGNS The High Commissioner reports :-»< London, February 3, 5.40 p.m.—,' ■ "Paris reports that at Noulette, west — of Lens, the Allies' battery silenced th<r , enemy after a lively fusillade. In thi River Ancre, above Avluy, some "firebrand" vessels sent by the Germans : were stopped by the Allies before they exploded. At Hill 200 at Perthes the Allies made slight progress,' taking pris- ■ oners and repelling counter-attacks. In, the Argonne, at Bagatelle, a second German attack was repulsed. "London, February 3, 3 p.m.—"Pe-' trograd reports that the conflicts with the eneiny are always favourable _ to us in the Mlawa district. On February 1 an artillery battlo of considerable violence occurred on the Bolimoff Road, on the left bank of tho Vistula. A German attack in the region north! of Borjiinoff was ropulsed with heavy j losses to the enemy. "Wo reoccupied'tho advanced trenches we lost on January 31 in a light near a farm south of the village of Goumiue. After a determined battle south of Pilitza, on the Donajeez River, tho enemy unsuccessfully attempted to ad- ■ vance, after a day and a night of severe .■ • Bring. In tho Carpathians fighting 1 continues. On January 31 and February 1, after advanced fighting over an ; extended front in the Dukla Pass the region from Jasliska to Meso La borez, we captured sis gnns, two howit, zcrs, machine guns, and many. prisoners. In tho same region an offensive it Ysotzko, south-east of. tho U6zok Pass, was repelled with enormous loss. German advices from the Carpatli«ians confirm that on February 1 a bat talion of the' 224 th Gorman Regiment was annihilated south-east of the Bes kid Pass, and the remainder, including tho battalion and company commanders, were mado prisoners.