OFFICIAL NEWS
(PfiESS ASSOCIATION.)
HIGH COMMISSIONER'S MESSAGES The following messages have been re ceived by the Prime Minister from the High Commissioner: — LONDON, 24th December. Paris reports that from the sea to the Lys the. Allies progressed by sapping in dunes south-east of Ypres, and captured a. group of houses. The enemy made a counter-attack, but was repulsed. The Belgians have establish' ed detachments on the right bank of the Yser, south of Dixmude. organising posts at a bridgehead. On the Aisne the Zouaves all day brilliantly repulsed attacks, remaining the possessors of German trenches captured on 21st December. North-west of Mestiin-les-Hur--lus four hundred metres of German trenches were captuied, and counterattacks were repulsed. ■Petrograd reports that on the Bzura the Germans maintained their position at two points noith of Sochaczew, but were repulsed on the river south-west of that town. LONDON. 23rd December. 2.30 p.m. Pelrograd reports : In Poland the Ger* mans secured a footing on the Lower Bzura. The AusUo-Gorman forces are descending on Poland along the front from south-west of Piotrkow and west of the Nida. A sortie by the Przemysl garrison was a complete iailure. LONDON, 23rd December, ,6.5 p.m. Paris reports slight piogrehs in Belgium. A redoubt was tnken cast ot Bethune. The French and British retook Givency-les-Basiee, previously lost. In the region of Perthes-les-Hurlus there was a lively cannonade, and two assaults cairied the last portion of the line partially conquered on 21st December, an average gain of eight hundred metres being made. The last trench was captured by the mitrailleuse section. A violent counter-attack was repulsed. Considerable advance was made over trenches at La Grime for a distance of two hundred and fifty metres. Two German mines were exploded, oiir troops occupying, the excavations. Petrograd reports that in Ea&t Prussia the Germans were repulsed on the lino from Boldav to Laurentburg. LONDON, 24th December. Official.—A Gorman aeroplane dropped a bomb over Dover this, morning. Brit* ish uircfaU went in pursuit.' but lost the German craft without sighting it again, as the weather was foggy and cloudy.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 153, 26 December 1914, Page 7
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343OFFICIAL NEWS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 153, 26 December 1914, Page 7
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