Official News

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 238, 17 March 1915, Page 5

Official News

Wellington, Last N"i!>lit. ilie High (omniisMoncr under date London, .March liitli, a.m.Army officers killed, l.i: wounded :!(>■ mi-.-Uig, 1; rejoined, I. Palis reports thai the day was marked b.V a number „f K aj ns bv the allies Til,. Germans tried to nvaptnre a smali fort carried by, the Allies on Thursday n:ght, but wei'e repulsed, leavin" 05 dead. South of Ypres the Britidi v.vi't compelled to fall back from a trench taken 'yesterday, but retained the trench, notwithstanding many counter-attacks. North of Arras the Allied infantry'; brilliant attack captured at one hound tnive lines of trenches, and tool; a hundred prisoners, also munitions. In the region of Curie and Roslineoui't the Allies blew up several German trenches and prevented the eiiemv reconstructing them. In the region of 'Albert the Germans exploded a mine under the Allies' treneh and occupied the position, but the Allies regained it.

1)1 tlic valley of the Ai<ne, north-west of Ouvvon, two Ceriuan companies were under fire and suffered 10-se-. I'll tin- ('hampa;ntt> district w ( . 'ground north-east iSouain and novthn'.'4 of l'erthcs. In tlic lvirion of liaga-t-1!,- an eneniv'- blockhouse iva< demolished and tlie site occupied. Til the wood of T.c Pi'etro. novth-Hvst of Pont-a-Mou-son. (lie Germans de-troycil be a mine four of I!ie Allies' advanced tvein-111--, lint tile vivaler part of the position was gained. - Petrograd reports thai in tlie Carpathians Austrian nfiacks directed at I'.aligrod. and a Herman attack near Kosziowa. weve rcnnl-"d. In l\as| Galieia tlie encmv w I'ir.iwii hack ill the region north of Olwrt.vii.