Official News.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 108, 30 September 1914, Page 5

Official News.

JAPANESE PUT GBRuLAJTS TO FLIGHT.

' , _______ ". HIGH COMMXSSIONERS REPORT. ! J FAVORABLE TO THE ALLIES. ' , The High Commi-sion. r reports 'in '■■ ■ der date London, rvptemVi 2S: — ! Reliable.—News from Paris i 5 fav.>r- j •bk to the Allies. The e<nliv in on th.. I defensive, but both flanks are vigorously ! on the offensive. A German arroplanoj dropped four bombs in Paris. Only oncaused serious damage, killing one m\n ] Heavy fighting is reported from I>r i monde and Hofstade, where the enemy | has fallen back, losing two big guns. A j German attack on Antwerp is consei- ' ered imminent. Communieation v:t:; j Antwerp is becoming difficult. Reports from lVtrograd state t:nt ihe Germans are retreating toward S:walki. The Austrian army has fa!:- n I back in the west. The Russians wi- i pied Turka in Galieia. Thirty-six German Fhip*, valued ; t '.£3.000.000, are IHd up in Antwerp The French fleet bombard, d CattVi for twelve hours. Several of the f jt'j were dismantled. The Russians have completely isol.it ■' ftreemysl. They have cat off'the rvlroads connecting the fortress on 'V north with Jaroslav, on the east with Lemberp, on the west with Tarno'J *;. 1 south with Thyrom. ' GERMANS GAIN GROUND. The following cablegram has b"-»» •■■• •ocived from the High Co-i!ui»i •■ i. 4»ted London. 2Sth:— Official.—Last night the enemy «'.- ffteked our lines even more violently, bat with no more success. There u n> dbnge in the situation. The German _*tb'gained ground. The French, fc*ve %£nac ed here and there.

London, Sept. 23 (7.10 p.m.)

I Oflfciai.—The Japanese military at- | tacho in London states that on the afterI noon 01 the 26th our troops attacked i the enemy, who were in occupation of advanced positions on high ground between Un; rivers Paisha and Litsun. After a siight engagement the enemy was , put to flight. On the 27th our troops occupied a line along the ngbt banks of the Utsun and Cbangtsun rivers, seven miles northcast of Tsing-tau. OHP.MAN AFRICAN .PROTECTORATE ' > INVADED. The Prime Minister has received the folowing table from the High Commissioner, dated London, (September 28:— Official.—The operations of the British naval tfrco* on tne west coast of Africi l:ave icsulted in the unconditional surrender of Duala, the capital of OameJoons, and Bonaberi, to the Anglo-French j forcei under a forigadkr-gencral. I The Camcroons, ox Kamerun. —A Geri man proteetoralc on the Gulf of Guinea, the sea coast more particularly fronting the Bight of Biafra for 200 miles. Area, 191,000 square miles. Coffee, covoa, tobacco, rice, maniocs, yams !tnd cotton are grown. Rubber,, palm kernels, palm oil, ivory, cocoa, copai, copra, and kola nute are exported. Iron; gold and indigo are other products Th-J largest town is Duala, population 22,000. The population of the protectorate is zy. millions, of whom 1300 are l>eans). CONTINUOUS FIGHTING IN BBLGIUAL The Premier has received the following from the High Commissioner, dated lyjndon, September 29 (12.45 a.m.):— Reliable.—Fighting in Belgium is almost continuous. The Belgian field 1 army is causing not orly Bcric-UM losses, but tactical embarrassment to the enemy, who constantly liavo to meet sorties and attacks at ."kilfully chosen point 3, making it d'rtiitut for the Germans to carry out any large combined movement. ' The Germans are making no main atI lack on Antwerp. I All English nurses andldoctors have Ibccn ordered to leave Brussels. The wounded will be moved from the city. The movement of German troop 9 at Brussels during the lat-t four days has 1 been enormous. RUSSIANS DEFEAT GERMANS. Fighting at Socfotskin and Druskpikc, on the line of the river Niemen, which I'efMn on Friday, Las cndetl by the ic--1-0.,t of the Germans. The Russians in Galicia occupied Dembitrti. Russians destroye<l the cncmv'a detachments in tho Carpathian Pass at I'zhok, capturing their artillery and many prisoners, and in the course of ■ further pursuit the Russians entered Hungary. | A large column of the enemy rej trc.llinft along the road from Przempo I to Sjnok was played upon by the Kll9j sian nrtillery from I)ie neighboring 1 hi-ifrlits. The enemv abandoned guns, ; munitions and waggons.