OFFICIAL REPORTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1917, Page 5

OFFICIAL REPORTS.

FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. A. and N.Z. Cable Assn. and Reut<*%' London, Dec. 31. ' A French communique says: The nighj was calm. We captured ?ome prigon< its at Conpdomiaii, <=nntii o! Childy. i l.r.mlm, Dec. 31V General Sir Dot"-' '•■!» reports:—' We bombarded th .'-outh-east of Lo Transloy, c\ ammunitiondump. The cnee- -vied active*! ly at Martinpuicli. A wireless German nilleial message slates:—We threw back the Russians' us far as the Braila bridgehead, and gained positions east of Marin, in the' Dobrttdja. , A wireless Austrian message states:-! East and northeast of Kiv.Ji and Vm' sarhely we took Nereja and Tnlnici, A wireless Russian official message » states:—ln the battles in the Oitus! val< ley the enemy reinforced and repeatedly attacked and captii' several height*! ' The nivniy is stub) ily attacking in the Moldavian frontier. Th*) offensivt north-west of Sevej fai'ert. The Roil* manians were victorious, taking many 1 , prisoners. The heights of the uppei) Putna frequently changed hands but re* inained in the enemy's possession. Thfl Russo-Roumaniatis dislodged the enemy at Bordcschi. The enemy repulsed the Roumanians north-west of the Huzenforsany- railway. As the result of a. third enemy attack in the Dobrudjlt south-cast of Brailost, the enemy OC-« cupicd a height in our centre. •. . I'aris, Dec. 31. \ A communique states that there isj. nothing important to report. • The French at Verdun and the Sommqin 010 captured 78.50(1 Germans., Amsterdam, Dee. 31* A wireless German official states:—' We captured the Knsso-Rounianian posi-, lions in the, Oituz valley. General Maokonscn encountered -Urong resistance northward and eastward of Rinn niculsarat. After a strenuou.t attack ha: entered (he enemy's positions and gain* ed ground after heavy lighting. London, Jan. Is '\ A wireless German official message? 'says:—We stu'ined several Russo-Rou-manian hill positions-between the Ua Valley and the Piitna Valley We repulsed fierce counter-attacks and again defeated the Russians in northern Wkl« lachia. We drove back th-? enemy half* wav between Mimnikti and Fochany. The Bnlgar-Germans took 1000 eastward of Macin. London, Jan. 1< ' A French communique states: After violent bombardment by trench engines, the enemy f.wiee attacked advanced posts west of Aubrive, in the Cham-l pagne, but completely failed before ouij, machine-guns end grenade throwing. London, Dec. 31. A wireless Austrian official messaged states:—Fast t.nti north-east of Kivid and Vasarhely we took Neieju and Tu> nici.