OFFICIAL REPORT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 44, 22 February 1915, Page 7

OFFICIAL REPORT.

The Prime Minister has received the following from the High Commissioner : LONDON, 20th Feb., 6.11 p.m. Paris reports : "The enemy bombarded Nieuport Bains and the dunes, and our batteries made efficacious replies. "The Germans had important forces engaged in yesterday's attack on the trenches east of Ypres. A bayonet attack, after the bombaidment, was repulsed, the Allies' artillery preventing the reserves supporting it. The German losses were high. "It is confirmed that the German losses in the Champagne district on recent days were considerable. Accord*'* ing to prisoners, a battalion was annihilated. "On the heights of the Meuse on Friday night the enemy delivered a fourth counter-attack against the trenches captured at Les Etarges. It was thwarted like their previous artillery attacks. "At Sattel, south of Laseght, the enemy succeeded in getting a footing on the eastern spur at Reichackeroff, The struggle is continuing." LONDON, 21st Feb., 5.15 p.m. Paris reports : "There have been infantry actions in the Belgian section of Ypres, the Belgians retaking a section of a trench occupied momentarily by the enemy, who left several hundred dead. "In the Champagne district, two enemy counter-attacks failed. "In the Vosges region, three German attacks were repulsed. Counter-attacks are proceeding."