Official News

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 229, 6 March 1915, Page 5

Official News

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. Wellington, Yesterday. The High Commissioner reports, under date London, March 4 (5.5 p.m.):— Petrograd reports, in connection with the Narew front, that German army orders taken state that prisoners must be captured at any cost in order to obtain information regarding the grouping of the Russian forces. The order recommends that traps concealed in pits be used to facilitate capture. The German troops are ordered to requisition all foodstuffs not nedeed and send them to the commissiariat. Some manoeuvres are explained by the fact that ths Germans were searching for potatoes. In the region of Stanislaw the Austrian 20th Division was completely routed by the Russians, who captured an ambulance, six doctors, and trains.

Paris reports that in the Belgian dune; district the artillery demolished German trenches." North of Arras the enemy captured an advanced trench. The bombardment of Rheims lasted all day, at the rate of a shell every thrca minutes. During an aerial raid yesterday Captain Nappe successfully bombarded a German powder magazine north of Donaueschingen, the flames rising 400 metres. A German aviator fired at a hospital at Gerardmer without effect.

The High Commissioner reports under date London, March 5, at 4 p.m.:— Petrograd reports that the Russians continue the offensive on the front between the Niemen and Vistula, on the reads from Olita. Further progress was made in the Grodno district. A stubborn artillery duel is proceeding near Osowiec. East of Edwabno the Russians reached the enemy's trenches, and hand-to-hand lighting occurred in places. We were successful near Kielzec, where a German brigade was dislodged, followed by the capture of six hundred prisoners. Particularly stubborn figliting is proceeding betv.v'ne Mlawa and Chorzelle. Tn the Carpathians between the Ondava and the San the Austrian*, despite immense losses, continue the fruitless attacks night and day. Here nrd in Eastern Galicia, the Russians took three thousand prisoners in a day.