ALLIES’ PROGRESS REPORT

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 106, 11 January 1915, Page 5

ALLIES’ PROGRESS REPORT

ADVANCE MADE EVERYWHERE, -•- Press . Association —Copyright, (Reed. 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, Jan. IC. v,'Ot withstanding numerous attacks enemy was unable to recapture trenches in the Soisson? region. The enemy again and again bombarded Scissons. Our artillefy lire had a grant effect . n the German trenches from Rheims to iup Argon. Dispersing patties «.f marksmen, we repelled counter-attacks west of Perthes. We progressed west of Beausejour, and seized a redoubt north of Beausejour, The enemy bombarded Porte de Paris to which we replied, destroying a blockhouse. We repulsed attacks in the yApremont Forest, also in the Thann region. THE FOOTBALLERS’ BATTALION. (Reed. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 10. Six hundred have joined the Footballers’ Battalion, Many well-known amateurs and professionals are among them, THE AMERICAN NOTE. EMBARGO ON WOOL. (Reed. 11.15 a.m ) WASHINGTON, Jan. Iff. Regarding Britain’s notification that the embargo on Australian wool might be restored, the Government announced that it could not further object if America continues to seek to suppl) Germany with woollen goods. • SAXONS AND PRUSSIANS, AT DAGGERS DRAWN. (Reed. 11,15 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 10. Saxon and Bavarian prisoners frequently abuse their Prussian comrades. The Saxon expressed a hope that t(ua British would shell the Saxon trenches that were taken over by Prussians. Typhoid continues to rage in the enemy’s ranks; there are many eases in Belgian hospitals. German losses have been very heavy during the last few weeks. The average strength of a company has been reduced from 320 to 70. A NAVAL ENGAGEMENT. RUSSIA SINKS TURKISH SHIPS. LONDON, Jan. 10. PETEOGRA®, Jan. 10. It is semi-officially announced that the Russian Fleet fought the Breslau and. Hnmiedeh on the sixth, inflicting serious damage. They destroyed a number of the enemy’s steamers and sailing vessels at Sinope, Trebizond, and elsewhere. On the eighth the Russians bombarded Khopah. It is reported the Turkish gunboat Perkishcvket was badly damaged. PRZEMYSL GARRISON. IN A TERRIBLE PLIGHT. (Reed. 9.5 a.m.) SOME, Jan. 10 The Russians captured an aeroplane from Przemysl, which was carrying the farming report that there wore five thousand sick troops in the city; that were twenty i«gr®e» of frost,ar. that the soldiers wore burning doors, window’s, and furniture to warm them’ selves, GERMAN OFFICERS DESERT. SOLO MOTORING FORBIDDEN. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 10. German officers at Antw’erp are forbidden to drive motor cars alone, owing to sixty officers disappearing with motor cars during the last few weeks.