OFFICIAL NEWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2462, 15 May 1915, Page 5

OFFICIAL NEWS

High Commissioner's report.-— London, May 13, 6.30 p.m. North of Arras, the Allies on Wednesday evening had a brilliant success. On Wednesday and Thursday at Notre Dame de Lorotto they masterod a fort and church, sustaining a violent coun-tor-attack from a quadrilateral of trenches south of tho church. In the morning thoy wore ontire masters of tho position, and inflicted extremely heavy losses on the enemy. The same night the.v took by assault the whole village of Carency and the wood to the north. The garrison holding Carenoy had built a formidable redoubt, and although much diminished by the preceding day's losses in killed, wounded, and prisoners, tho.y opposed tho Allies throughout tho night in a labyrinth of blockhouses and trenches, the desperate resistance of which was broken. By daybreak tho Allies wore complete masters of the position. Tho Allies killed hundreds of Germans with, tho' bayonet, and inndo 1050 prisoners, including thirty officers. Tho Allies' attacks on tho villago of Nouville appreciably progressed, gaining hundreds of metres ant] capturing the i Nenvillo-Givenchy railway. At Givenchv itself the Allies carried house by house the whole ccntre of the village, occupying the southern portion on Wednesday morning, and throwing the Germans into the north, which the Allies are now overwhelming. The Germans, bv wireless, admit these losses and the loss of much material. The High Commissioner reports:— London, May 13, 8.30 p.m. Army casualties:—Officers: Killed, 12; wounded, 37. Men: Killed, 9G; wounded, 341; missing, 4. In tho Dardanelles:—Naval officers: Killed, 2; wounded, 2. ';