NOT YET FINISHED. EAST AFRICA. NORTH AFRICA. ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1916, Page 5

NOT YET FINISHED.

EAST AFRICA.

NORTH AFRICA.

ON THE SEA.

, OFFICIAL REPORTS. , deceived May :28, 5.5 p.ui. Amsterdam, May 27. The German coimuunicjuo says: Mines destroyed a great width of enemy trenches in the Argonne, The French temporarily penetrated the southern part of Cumieres, but were ejected. IParis, May 27. ' Semi-official: The essential fact of the battle at Verdun during the last lewdays has been the employment of five German divisions who were taken from the reserves at Somme and attacked Vimv. thus marking the departure of the First Bavarian Corps to Verdun. Despite the disastrous assault in the i Verdun region the battle is in no wise iinished. The enemy is still going to hurl a million shells'from positions on both banks. i A FRENCH REPORT. Paris, May 27. A communique says: We attacked Cumieres and the .positions to the westward on Friday evening, and after a desperate struggle penetrated the eastern portion of the village and carried several trenches to the northwestward. The enemy's violent counter offensive failed to dislodge us. Our bombers eastward of Hill 304 progressed on the night of the 22nd, and an attack in the evening against our trenches on the outskirts of Douaumont fort was completely repulsed. There was intense artillery activity all night on both sides throughout the region northward of Verdun. SUFFERING FROM NERVES! CROWN PRINCE HAS COLD FEET. Reecived May 28, 5.5 p.m. Berne, May 27. Owing to serious nerve strain the Crown Prince though remaining at headquarters, no longer takes an active part in directing operations at Verdun. His condition does not occasion anxiety.

PORTUGUESE PARTICIPATE. GERMANS IN RETREAT, Capetown, May 20. A Portuguese communique states that a naval force captured the German post at the mouth of the Rovumit. The Germans retreated. [The Rovuma River is the boundary Detween German East Africa and Portuguese East Africa.. The German territory is surrounded by hostile Powers. ! In the north is British East Africa and Uganda, 011 the west the Belgian Congo | and in the south Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa. General Smuts is [ advancing from the north, and though the extent of country to be covered is | enormous, should soon succeed in de- , feating the Germans.] GENERAL SMUTS' ADVANCE. | Received May 28, 5.5 p.m. London, May 27. Official: General Smuts advnnced ! troops occupied without oppositoji the River Laager, twenty-six miles aouthl ward of Kalii, on the Nsambara :ailway to Lembeni, and on the same railway to [ Ngulu, south-eastward of Lembeni. Re- * newed enemy activity is reported from ' the Kondcairangi arwt. E :

WORK IN THE SUDAN/ A SPIRITED SKIBMISH. Received May 28, 5.5 p.m. London, May 27. The War Office states that the attitude of Aledinar, Sultan of Darfur, towards t'lie 'Government of tlie Sudan was for some time unsatisfactory and truculent. He concentrated a force at Jebelelhella, on the Kordofan f"ontier, but Colonel Kelly, with a mixed force of all arms, defeated him at the village of Berincia, twelves nvles northward of El Fasher's Aledinar's capital, The enemy, numbering between two and three thousand, were sti'onsjly entrenched but were induced to quit their position. They attacked us with the utmost rapidity and desperation, 'but met a .withering fire. Some few penetrated to win a few yards of cur line, but we counter-attacked, indicting losses estimated at 1000. Our losses were five killed and twenty'tluvc wounded. Before and during the action ail officer of the Flying Corps, by means of bombs and machine-gun fire, forced a large body of cavalry and then two thousand 'infantry to retire in dHorler. The officer, who was wounded by a bullet in the thigh, returned safely to Abiad. We have occupied 151 l'asliQr.

„ NEW MINEFIELDS. Copenhagen, May 26. A press message states that the bodies of several German sailors have been •vashed ashore on the "west coast oi Jutland. One is believed to be the commander of a destroyer. The new German minefields reported in Heligoland Bight are releasing several ships from tlie North Sea squadron for use in the Baltic,