"A GOOD DAY"

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 242, 16 November 1914, Page 7

"A GOOD DAY"

GERMANS LOSE HEAVILY.

ALLIES' EVERYWHERE SUC-

CESSFUL.

; • ;' : PARIS, November 15. ',- The following official statement if issued:^— "'''.'..We have had a, good day from the sea-td the north o£ Lille. We repulsed '- (German _ attacks north of Zonnabck' and south of Ypres, where the enemj' lost heavily. The enemy unsuccessfully attempted to penetrate between the La ~;' Bassee Canal, Arras, and the Libons /- " , ,-,« • MGernian attacks between the' Lys V and sea are • less keen. The Allies J ■ at some points resumed the offensive. A German attack at Nieuport failed. ■ Attempts to advance * south-east and east of Ypres were checked. "The Prussian Guards made an i tack south of Ypres, but were f£ pulsed. We advanced; a kilometre ■»£ eastwards of Bixschoote, and pro-' I gressed between the La Bassee canal '- : and;' Arras;'' -* ' . : ' The struggle in the Argoune has '!, bcien fiercely renewed. German attacks -y failed; .','•■■■ ■'""' - ;t i ■' German attacks at various points in '.% '■' ■ -'"■' "''••■■• . . . A

the Lassigny region and on the Aisne were unsuccessful." PAEIS, November 13. A communique states: —"The action from the Lys to the sea is less severe. "The German efforts to cross thd Yser Canal failed. "German attacks north-east and south-east of Ypres were repulsed. **We have gradually advanced during the last few days on the line from Armentieres to the Oise, and are now within three hundred and fifty metres of the German barbed-wire entanglements. * *We have captured Tracy-le-val, and progressed slightly at other points north of the Aisne. "We have repulsed German counterattacks at Chavenne and Soupir, and also at Berry-au-Bac, and made some progress elsewhere."