OFFICIAL REPORTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1916, Page 5

OFFICIAL REPORTS.

DOINGS /)N RUSSIAN FRONT. i'he High Commissioner reports:— London, January 2S (7.5 a.m.) Petrograd reports that south-west of Lake Xarotli a German detachment was routed atld prisoners taken. Repeated enemy attacks on the Russian trenches north of Bojan were all repulsed. • iiV- i • "v, „£ «j THE EASTERN CAMPAIGNS. GERMANS REPULSED IN THE WEST. ' Received Jan. 30, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, Jan. 29. 'A compunique states: We defeated large Turkish forces south of Lake Urmia (in Persia), capturing many prisoners. We also drove the enemy southward in the neighborhood of the Kandelian Pass. •London, Jan. 29. General Candler reports that some Indian contingents are arriving in Mesopotamia from Flanders. General Haig reports: The Germans attempted an infantry attack on a salient in the north-east, but were driven back. Received Jan. 30, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Jan. 29. A communique states: The enemy, after a violent bombardment, attacked eevetal kilometres on our front south of the Somme, bi\t failed, except at the village of Frise, overlooking the Somme. The attack is at present stopped, and by counter-attacks we re-occupied some of the loßt trenches. Several German' attacks in the Artois were repulsed with heavy loss. Amsterdam, Jan. 20. An Austrian communique says: We captured a number of advanced Russian trenches at Toporoutz. ■■ 1

FROM ALL THEATRES. EAST AXD WEST! Received Jan. 30, II p.m. London, Jan. 30. Official: Sir Percy Lake has joined General Aylmer at Wadl, The weather is bad and the whole country is deep in mud, delaying the movements. A German communique states: We stormed the. trenches north-east of Neu<ville, over a front of seventeen hundred yards, and captured a suspension bridge near Arras. We also took the village of Frise and a thousand yards of the adjoining trenches, capturing 937 prisoners and taking 13 machine-guns and four mine-throwers. Petrogiad, Jan. 30. A communique reports: We crushed the Turkish columns west of Mclaw-erat, pursued -.be fugitives, and entered Khryskala, capturing many prisoners and great quantities of munitions and supplies. London, Jan. 30. General Haig reports that, following a heavy bombardment, the enemy entered some saps near C'erny, hut were driven out. We repulsed bombing attacks near Givenchy. Paris, Jan. 30. A communique says: Our artillery started a fire in a magazine at Fecht, and there were many explosions. We repulsed attempts to retake the craters southward of La Foginc road.