AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1915, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

OFFICIAL REPORTS. OUR PROGRESS IN AIL THEATRES. Received Nov. 7, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, Nov. 6. A communique says:—The enemy's statement that seven German battalions at Loos lost eighty per cent, was entirely invented. Despite their extraordinarily high losses the Russians continue their unsuccessful attacks between Sw'eikten and Islen Lakes.

Our Balkan armies captured the heights at Arilje and at Morairca Valley, and also the ridge at Jelicaplanina, south of Cacak. They reached the western bank of the .Tolyskamorava, capturing twelve hundred Serbians.

General von Galliwitz stormed the heights south of Lagosnir, and took fifteen hundred prisoners.

A LATER BERLIN REPORT. SERBIAN (RETREAT THREATENED. JUNCTION WITH BULGARS ESTABLISHED. Received Nov. 7, 11 p.m. Berlin, Nov. 6. A wireless states that the surrounding of the Serbians continues, and the junction of General Koevess with the Vishegracl group threatens to cut off the Serbian retreat towards Montenegro Simultaneously we are attacking Montenegro in the east and north. A German communique states that during the recent fighting at Strypa, the Russiau prisoners totalled six thousand. We captured Kraljeco and have captured Vauvarin by surprise, taking three thousand Serbian prisoners, and we have established connection with the main Bulgarian army at Kivevir.