OFFICIAL NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 10 January 1916, Page 5

OFFICIAL NEWS

STATEMENTS FROM VARIOUS^ . THEA.TRES.

ARTILLERY ACTIVITY IN FRANCE

■■'.■■■.•'.*":• . LONDON, Jan. 9. A Montenegrin eommum.que says: The attaciied Gocirevo and XuriaK, and there -have been important enemy -movements ai iiilak and Xrebiiije.

PETROGRAD, Jan. 9. A communique reports: We captured the town of (Jzartorysk and a -height two versts westward ot the town. The Austrians, using asphyxiating jgases, attacked north-east ot Czernowitz, but were repulsed. The Tutks in the Caucasus •assumed the offensive at Akha, and under cover of .fog .reached -..our artificial defences, when our fire drove them back .with heavy .hisses. An enemy offensive from Dowlwabad, -south-east of Hamadan, was repelled beyond "the Kendelian Pass..

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 9. A Turkish communique states: Our Aeroplanes shot down two French and English -aeroplanes, and our aerial squadron successfully - bombed positions at SedQ-ttl-Bahr and the aerodrome at Inibros. Enemy cruisers have continuously bombarded the Anatolian coast and the Narrows.

ROME, Jan. 9. A communique states,:, .By a bold surprise vwe ■■ occupied .:SaD' Giovanni, on the southern slopes sof Monte Speroni. T-ARIS, Jan. 9. The Germans occasionally bombard Nancy with naval K-iiibh gun,s. A communique . says :that s artillery destroyed the Chatillon Mills, eastward of Fontenoy, which the enemy had organised defensively. t Another .communique says : Our artillery destructively bombarded the enemy positions on the plateau at Nouvrons, north-west of Soissons. Two German posts were destroyed. Our long-range "fire threw an enemy column into confusion north of Etain, and caused a 'fire in the neighboring village. Our'batteries exploded three of the enemy 3*, works nortn of St. Mihiel and Lausame.

CETTIHJE, Jan. 9. A communique states: There is 'furious fighting in the Berane district. The enemy, which comprised twenty battalions, suffered heavy losses, while ours iwere considerable; We held the ■majority of -positions, excepting those at Godocha arid Godrevo. -

'AMSTERDAM, Jan. 9. _'An Austrian •communique estimates that the Russians lost fifty thousand in the New Year "fightiDe on the Bess^ arabian frontier arid Strypa. General yon Koevess "has driven the Montenegrins to positions north"of Berane, atfd our advanced troops axe within ten Kilometres of Berane.