HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 226, 12 June 1915, Page 5

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT.

LONDON, .Tunc 11 2.20 a.m.) The High Commissioner reports: — Army officers killed 19, wounded missing 8; men killed 300, wounded 1741, gassed 24- missing »S 0; naval officers killed G, woir-jlvd 4, saved from torpedo boats 31. At North Arras artillery fighting continues. The latest reports of captured Neuvillo and. Saint Vaast prove that the north-cast portion of the village and fort, which the. enemy organised, wore defended with extreme obstinacy. The French infantry gained the whole position after hand-to-hand; lighting. The Germans retro.iicu oily* a-e a last extremity, leaving a rminMr of guns, and nearly a thousar-d dead. At Champagne the Boausjonr attack,, of more than a battalion, on the French trenches, was everywhere repulsed. In the vicinity of the heights of the Meusc, particularly at Eparges, the Gorman batteries have been reduced to silence. LONDON. June 11, 12.+0 p.m. In the Shavli region, on both shores -of the Lake of Rakiewo, on Tuesdayand Wednesday, Gorman attacks wttfc repelled. On the right bank of the Pilica, small' enemy forces attack was repulsed and scores of prisoners taken. In Galicia the enemy, in great foveas, attacked our positions protecting ilosfieiska. The enemy on Tuesday, in a three-hours' cannonade, hurled. great' masses of infantry forward; on reaching the Russians' wire they wore hold up. On Wednesday, after severe losses, the enemy was thrown back two thousand paces. On the right bank of the Dneister, iv* Ugartsberg and Zidaczew, the enemy were" pressed back and two thousand' were made prisoners, including Mty officers. Eight machine-guns were also captured. On the loft bank of the juravmrw re«. gion the enemy was unable to extend" further and they were driven behind) the railway. The Russians capturedseveral villages, including Bnkaezeceo. and made hundreds of prisoners, including 20 officers. In the Trentino the Italians occupied' Posestagntt and Corniau Two hundred Austrian* were killed, 400 wounded, and 220 taken prisoners. At Freikopel the fighting was renewed. An Austrian attack was repulsed with heavy losses. The citadel and! heights dominating Menfaleonc weiecaptured on Wednesday and oecupkd, by the Italians. k