OFFICIAL REPORTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1916, Page 5

OFFICIAL REPORTS.

! RUSSIAN COMUNIQUE. ■ - SUCCESS IN THE CAUCASUS. - Received Jan. 23, 5.5 p.m. PetrogTad, Jan. 22. 'A' communique says: We repulsed an enemy attempt to capture a hill north of Chartorysk. Our Caucasian forces captured the town of Hassankotda and drove the fleeing enemy far from the forts of Erzeroum, sabring and capturing over fifteen.hundred. The eiremr abandoned huge supplies. We drove back the Turks west of Vashan, on the southern shore of Lake Van. •- SPRINGING A MINE; - " Received Jan. 23, 11 p.m. Amsterdam, Jan. 22. A German communique says: Our mines destroyed seventy metres of trenches south-eastward of Ypres. London. Jan. 23. General Haig reports: The enemy sprang a mine near Comines Canal, and we then occupied the crater. SUCCESSFUL BOMBARDMENTS. Wellington, Jan. 22. The High Commissioner reports under date London, January 21, 1.25 a.m.:— In a bombardment close to the station at Chaulnes the enemy works suffered by our fire and an explosion. North of the Aisne, on the Corbeny Road, an enemy column was caught by our fire. The bombardment was general.