ANOTHER VILLAGE TAKEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1917, Page 5

ANOTHER VILLAGE TAKEN.

ADVANCE ON THREE MILES FRONT. NUMEROUS PRISONERS CAPTURED Aust and N.Z. 1 Cable Assn and Reuter. Received March 11, 11.50 p.m. London, March 11. Field Marshal Sit Douglas Ilnig reports: We attacked and captured the village of Irle3 and the neighbouring defences. Our advance extends over a front of three miles. A considerable number of prisoners were taken. Our casualties were slight. BRITISH DRIVE CONTINUES. ' Paris, March fl. A semi-official despatch states that though the situation on the Autre is momentarily stationary, the British continue driving in the 'German flanks on both sides of the river. Artillery activity at Verdun continues. > and is concentrated on the left hank of the* Mouse, where the French are ceaselessly battering German works. The amended Government Bill for the mobilisation of civilians pro .'ides for voluntary enrolment of both sexes from U to 60 years of age, and eventual compulsion. DISASTER TO COOLIE TRANSPORT. COLLISION IN A FOG. OYER 600 LIVES LOST. A. & N.Z. Cable Asscfciation and Reuter. P.eeeived March 11. 5.5 p.m London, March 10. The War Office amounts that the transport Mendi, with a final, batch of South African native laborers, collided with another vessel in a thick fog off the Isle of Wight on February 21, 12 Europeans and 121 natives being saved; and ten' Europeans and 615 natives drowned.