Official News.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 96, 18 September 1914, Page 5

Official News.

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S. CABLE The Htgti Commissioner reports:— London, September 16 (7.36 p.m. Official.—The Governor of uS'vasta.land reports Uiat a reconnaissance 'beyond. the frontier was made on the 19th witfhout contact being establisHied with the enemy. Of nineteen German officers engaged eleven bad, been aoooumted for. Three others liad escaped wounded. The Gurnuin Josses of raiiik ami iile vere heavy. Official.—Submarino EJ> has .returned lafter having 'torpedoed a German cruiser, 'believed to be the Hula, six imiles south of Heligoßoaiid. Official. —Tlie GovemoT-General of South Africa, cables to the Secretc-y of State far the Uolonics that the of South Africa aro firmly resolved to fulfil tlieir sacred duty by: assisting with, the resources at their disposal to Ibring (the terrible • war which, ham '"v forced upon illis Majesty .to a spveuy and successful conclusion. The High Commissioner reports under l_te London, Sept. 16 (6,10 p.m.): Official.—The general position along the Aisne continues favorable. The enemy have delivered several counterattacks, especially against the Ist Army Corps. These have been repulsed. The Germans have given way slightly before our troops and the French armies. On our right and left the enemy's loss was very heavy. We have taken two hundred prisoners.

The High Commissioner cables:— London, September 17 (12.30 a.mi. Reliable, —The Belgians 'have' refused to treat, as a prisoner of wiar Commander Meune, who commanded the Landstupm at Louvain. He is now in Wie criminal prison at Antwerp, and will be tried by court-martial for gross infractions of the laws of war. Contrary to official despatches declaring in Berlin that tihe war 'loan subscriptions are excellent, only £10,000,000 of £50,000,000 (haivo ibeca contributed. The whole German Press contains advertisements appealing to Gorman, capitalists for support in this great'crisis, as no money aa forthcoming from neutral powers. A superb exhibition, of seamanship was given toy the torpedo flotilla based upon Harwich during the gale of exceptional severity which raged for two days. For 24 houre the batches were battened down, while the sailors on deck duty stood at tiheir posts lashed to the rails. The anti-neutrality agitation :s spreading in Italy. Resolutions have been passed urging the Government, to take notion, Jest they_lost the chance of extending tiheir nafbonal .boundaries. Nationalists, Republicans and Socialists have joined in patriotic demonstrations. The public feeling is decidedly favorable to Englaml.