Official News.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 275, 30 April 1915, Page 8

Official News.

HIGH COMMISSION'BR'S REPORTS. The High Commissioner reports as follows: London, April 29, 1.25 a.m. In the Champagne district the Hermans took 300 metres, and advanced in the. region of Beausejour. The Allies rc- ( gained half. The War Office announces that in face of continual opposition our troops established themselves across the Gallipoli Peninsula at a point north-east of Kskit Hissarlin, to the mouth of the stream on the opposite side, heating off attacks at Sari (Hair and steadily advancing. The trops hoave overcome the wire entanglements on land and under the sea, and the deep pits ■with spikes at the bottom. The Paris Admiralty reports that the armored cruiser Leon Gambetta was torpedoed by an Austrian submarine on Monday or Tuesday in the Adriatic, and all the officers perished (138). Of the crow, totalling 700, only ten were rescued.

.Sir John French reports that the fiphting north and north-east of Ypres was continued all day on Tuesday. Our operations, in conjunction with the French, definitely stopped the 'German attack, which has not since been renewed,

The Germans again aiand asphyxiating gases and shells manufactured in contravention of the Hague Convention. Wellington, April 29. ' The High Commissioner reports under date London, April 28, 11.55 a.m.: On the left hank of the Vistula, skirmishes on Sunday resulted in favor of the Russians, in the Carpathians on Sunday, after artillery preparation, the enemy assaulted the heights north-cast of Orsozpatak. The storming parties 'reached the barbed wire entanglements and were then mowed down by the Russian fire. On Sunday night a fruitless attack was made by the enemy on the ,Uzok Paas. Stubborn fighting took place in the direction of Stry. A whole Austrian battalion surrendered on 'Monday. On Tuesday the Russians damaged and captured two aeroplanes in the Caucasus. On Sunday the Russians continued their offensive on the coast in the direction of <olty. In the valley of Alaskirt the Russian cavalry engaged the Kurds and scattered and drove tliem I back.

, In Belgium on Tuesday the German artillery showed little activity on the front held 'by the Belgian army. The French aiided the Belgian artillery and infantry to retake Lizerne. In several r&erman trenches in the direction of Het Sas more than -800 dead were counted. The battlefield booty taken comprises six quick-firing guns and two\ hundred prisoners. The attack continues.' The French took the offensive on the heights of the Meuse at Les Eparges, St. Remy and Calonnc. Heavy German losses were sustained, On the heights of the Meuse the French advanced one kilometre and destroyed a German battery. A NEW APPOINTMENT. Received April 30, la.m. London, April 20. Colonel M. W. Tighe has been ap-1 pointed Major-General Commanding against the Germans in East Africa.