SATURDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 January 1915, Page 3

SATURDAY

o Latest reports of the battle near Soisspns state that the German attacks have, been checked. The allies were compelled to retire owing to the flooding of the Aisne, which endangered their lines of communications. Guns which had to be abandoned owning to the breaking of a bridge were rendered useless before being left to the enemy. ~ The majority of the prisonerss who fell into the hands of the Germans were wounded and whom it was impossible to remove. From the eastern theatre comes the news that the enemy have abandoned the town of Sierpe, in the north of Poland, 22 miles north-west of Plock. " The Russian advance in this region, threatens the German communications between Thorn, which is only 45 miles west of Sierpe and Lowicz.. In Galicia Austrian artillery bombarding Russian trenches was silenced. •