THE ALLIES.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2857, 31 January 1916, Page 2

THE ALLIES.

DRIVE THE ENEMY BACK

Paris, January 29.

A communique says; The enemy. after a violent bombardment, attacked several kilometres of our front south of the Somino, but failed except in the village of Frise, overlooking the Solium*. The attack has at present stopped. By counter-attacks we reoccupied some of the lost trenches. Several German attacks in the Arfois were repulsed with heavy loss. A communique says: Our artillery started a fire in a magazine at Focht. There were-many explosions. We repulsed attempts to retake the craters southward of La Fogincroad. London, January 29. ■Sir .Douglas Haig reports that the Germans attempted an infantry attack on a salient in the north-oast, but were driven back. The British headquarters in France report heavy attacks on Cahioy. The enemy .entered the saps, but wore driven out next morning, leaving dead and wounded. There were vigorous artillery attacks on both sides, the British doing considerable damage to the hostile trenches. Mr Candler, the Consul, report'(hat some Indian contingents are arriving in Mesopotamia from Flanders. Sir Percy Luke has joined Genera! | Ayliuer's relieving force at AVadi. J Mesopotamia. The weather if. wretched, mud making the movement* of troops difficult. Salonika. January 2',)^ The Allies' marines occupied ii Greek port on the Kara bunt Peninsula. The-Greck commander evacual. cd the port alter making a protest. • Petrograd. January 28. A communique -states: We defeat ed large Turkish forces south of Lake Urnia, making prisoners of many. Wo also drove tlie enemy southwards in tho neighbourhood of Kaiidelian Pass. A communique says: We crushed Turkish columns west of Mclazzerf. pursued by fugitives. We entered Khryskala, capturing- many prisoner? aud great quantities of munitions and supplies'.