OFFICIAL REPORTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1917, Page 5

OFFICIAL REPORTS.

j FROM ALL FRONTS..,. | A. & N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter. ! Received Jan. 9, JO p.m. London. Jan. 9. Field-Marshal Sir Doutr'as Haig reports: We repulsed three attempts to approach south-east of Souchez. We effectively bombarded eastward of Les | Boeufs and on both sides of the Ancre eastward of Relive Chapelle. The Germans heavily shelled Ypres. A French communique states:' There is a lively artillery duel on the right of the Meuse, at the foot of Cotes-dc-Meuse. Admiralty, per Wireless Press. London, Jan. 0. A German official message states: There was a lively artillery duel near Riga. We are pursuing the defeated Russians near Focsaui. Admiralty, per Wireless Press. London, Jan. 0. Russian official: We captured a village north-west of Tirol swamp, and trenches south-west of Babit Lake. We repulsed fierce counter-attacks an<i drove back columns southward of Kr.ivo. Following j the enemy bombardment imc 1 three ga: waves, the enemy pressed l ack the Roumanians north-west of Focsani unti' the j arrival of our reserves. Enemy attackc o j the Sereth were completely unsucccss- | ful.

Admiralty, per Wireless Press. j Received Jan. 9, 7.50 p.m. London, Jan. 8. A German report slates: The Russian* strongly Attacked weft of the Riga-Mitau road ,md extended liMi- We pushed back the enemy between the Putna and Oituz Valleys, and drove the Russo-Roumanians from fortified mountain posit ; cns at Odobesti towards Piitna. We stormed the Milcova position and pierced the enemy second line between Focsani and Javes-tc-a. and crossed the Foesani-Bolotesti load ar.d captured Focsani, prisonering 31)10 and taking three guns. Admiralty, per Wireless Press, LondSh, Jan. 9. Italian official: There is vigorous artillerying along the whole.