Official News.
HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLE. The rrime Minister has received the foil wing from the High Commissioner; Loudon, January 2, 4.50 p.m. Pc.rrgrad reports that the German a 4:tj.ks buv.tcn Vistula and Pilitza wir; repulsed, the enemy being severely handled. In western Galicia the Russians took fortifications and heights south of Kotan. Krempa and Baligrod. The enemy'* In-.-es were enormous, who!': <-o»ipanics being exterminated by the biivonct. In a bayonet charge, Russians at Caueaobs killed a large number of Turks, thirtien hundred being captured.
Early in December Mr. A. C. Morton, a theep-farmer of the Hunterville district, interviewed the Gear Meat Company, and the. management promised to slaughter, wrap, and place on board ship any sheep sent to the company during December in aid of the Belgians, free of charge. Mr. Morton called a meeting of farmers at Hunterville, and a committee was formed to canvass, with the result that 800 fat sheep have been sent to the Gear works. As railway freight will be refunded, and the Prime Minister has promised that the Government will pay the shipping freight, these sheep will land at Home free of all charges. They are not to be sold at Home, but will be sent on to Belgium for distribution,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 170, 4 January 1915, Page 5
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207Official News. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 170, 4 January 1915, Page 5
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