OFFICIAL REPORTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 January 1916, Page 5

OFFICIAL REPORTS.

RUSSIAN COMUMNIQUES. NEWS I ROM SEVERAL QUARTERS Received Jan. 24, 10.15 p.m. Petrograd, Jan. 24. A communique states that captures of prisoners and artillery in the Erzeroum region continue. During the Turkish headlong flight the roads were strewn with' the frozen bodies of Turkish soldiers. Other reports indicate that the whole position in the Middle East has greatly improved. The Russians at Hamadan and Sultanabad are co-operating with the British at Kub-el-Mara and other Russians from Tabriz have reached Miandorb, south of Lake Curmia. Turkey is disappointed at Germany insisting on :the Mesopotamia campaign being cleared before the Egyptian campaign commences. A GERMAN ATTACK. us THE WEST FRONT. Received Jan. 24, 10.10 p.m. Paris, Jan. 24, A communique states that after mine explosions and a violent bombardment the German attack at Neuville Saint Vaast penetrated several hundred jietres of our first line of trenches, and reached the supporting trench. Our /counter-attacks were immediately launched and we dislodged the enemy, who by the afternoon only held two hundred metres forming the salient of our lines. Our curtain of fire and the machine-guns inflicted heavy losses on the attackers.