France & Flanders

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 196, 27 January 1915, Page 5

France & Flanders

FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT. ! Paris, January ?5. A communique states: "We made slight progress east cf St. Georges and repuked a cjv.nkr-attack at Pt.-.-y aiv bac. The artillery completed tho destruction of the bridges at St. Mihlel." Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 25. Amsterdam reports that 16 German' heavy guns in the Arras region were! seriously damaged by the French artillery, and were removed in trains. RISKS OF AVIATION.

DOSS OF BRITISH AIRMEN. AFTER A SUCCESSFUL RAID. Received 26, 10.40 p.m. London, January 28. The Chronicle's Dunkirk correspondent states that Major Raleigh and Captain Roche participated in the air raid at Zeebruggc. They encountered fog on the homeward journey. Roche lost his way, and was v/recked and drowned. Raleigh reached Dunkirk, but later, while biplaning, was wrecked and caught in the quicksands. His legs were broken, and he succumbed. DESTITUTE BELGIUM.® SOUP CANTEENS 'IN BRUSSELS. YOUNG PEOPLE EMIGRATE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 2G, 5.5 p.m. London, January 26. Fifty thousand destitute throng the Brussels relief kitchens. Soup is distributed daily at twenty-one canteens, under the protection of the American flag. Outside the townships the villagers are searching the fields, in the hope of finding stray potatoes, and pick up fruit rotting in the orchards. The, old people will return home and die, rather than face life in new lands, but the young are going forth to other lands, with their poor bundles of rags on their shoulders.

"NOTHING TO REPORT." Received 26, 9.50 p.m. Paris, January 26. An official communique is issued today as follows:—"There is nothing to report." HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLE. Wellington, Yesterday. The High Commissioner reports as follows under date London, January 25. 6 p.m.:— Paris reports that slight progress has been made in Belgium, east of St. Georges. In the Champagne district the Allies demolished several German earthworks and shelters. In Lorraine the French surprised and captured a Bavarian detachment at Embermenil.