Official News.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 306, 4 June 1915, Page 5

Official News.

men COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. Wellington, Last Night. The Prime Minister lias received the following cable from the High Commissioner, dated London, .Tunc 1, 3 p.m.: At Neuville Saint Vast the French took a group of bouses, and held them despite nianv counter-attacks. Prisoners 'made at this point since Monday exceed -150. From the rest of the front there is nothing to report. Rlieims was bombarded, particularly the cathedral. London, Juno 3, Loll a.m. itoino reports that the Italians were firnilv established on the slopes ■of Montenegro, ten kilometres north-west of Tolmino, on Sunday afternoon. Vigorous Austrian counter-attacks were repulsed all along the line. The British carried at the bavonet. tioiut the Chateau of llooge ,near Zonnebeke. South-east of Neimllo a (lernuin counter-attack in the Labyrinth was repulsed. The Allies made further progress between May Htli and dune Ith. The French division which, took Caroney, Ablain, St. Na/.air, the Malon mill, and Souchez sugar refinery, made three thousand one hundred prisoners, buried two thousand six hundred German dead, and lost iu wounded, dead, and missing three thousand two hundred, two-thirds being slightly wounded. At Champagne, near Beausejour, the enemy; tried a night attack, biit were immediately thrown back into their trenches.