ALLIES IN THE WEST

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 8981, 2 March 1915, Page 6

ALLIES IN THE WEST

* STORY OF CONTINUOUS PROGRESS 'Hie Premier has received the following messages from the High Commia•louer: LONDON, March 1,2 a.m. Tlio War Office reports the following casualties to-day: —Officers, killed id, wounded 3; men, Killed 365, wounded 560, missing 60, prisoners 6, re'oiUCparis reports: —“The enemy bombarded Soissons with two hundred small “In the Champagne region the Allies made a marked advance along the whole fighting, front. , ~ , , , . , ~ “.Xorth of Perthes they repelled a counter-attack and retained the works taken the previous day. They also extended their positions, occupying new trenches. ' „ ±1 . T , •‘The Allies gained ground in all the woods between Perthes ana xSeause“Their gains north and north-west of Beausejour were two thousand metres of trenches yesterday, and these were considerably enlarged to-day lu a single trench the enemy left over two hundred dead. ••In the Argonne the Allies have taken three hundred metres of trenches ov a brilliant infantry attack. , _ .. , “In the Vosges, north of Chapelotte, a lively German attack was re?ulsed‘” LONDON, February 28, 6.50 p.m. Paris reports:—“ln the Dixmudo region our artillery demolished two anemy earthworks, our infantry occupying a farm on the right bank ot tno lier, ‘Au aviator threw a bomb on the Maritime railway station at Ostend. “In a fresh bombardment of Reims sixty shells were fired, partly at the -*ijji the Champagne district two German earthworks were captured; ground was gained at several points; and prisoners taken. b “The total enemy surrenders during the last ten days amounted to orei one thousand ” (Received March i, 9.15 p.m.) PARIS, March 1. Official —“We have made marked progress on the Combie-Perthes front and progressed in all the woods between Perthes and Beausejour, capturing over two thousand metres of trenches north of Beausejour. Two hundred dead Germans were found in one trench. Wo captured three metres or trenches west of Boureuilles, and by a brilliant infantry attack reached the edge of the Plateau Bouquois. ’ CLEVER FIGHTING BY THE FRENCH PARIS, February 28. a defeat of the Gormans at Chateau Heerentoge on the road from Ypres to Menin. was duo to the cleverness of the French. The fight began on the 9th and lasted three days. The Germans attacked and Yound themselves exposed to an immense artillery fire on the flank. The Germans, with their guns at longer range, tried to hinder the French reserves. The struggle centred round the chateau, and there was a groat fight to t-ikn the last trench. The French dug a cross-trench and quietly moved their machine guns and a mortar and enfiladed the enemy. An advance followed. The French, using hand-grenades, dashed to the trench and killed the uoJ l . m , ins ], os j. f our hundred killed and six hundred wounded, the French fifty killed and eighty wounded. GERMAN REGIMENT ANNIHILATED PARIS, February 28. Prisoners taken in recent fighting report that the 92nd Regiment was entirely annihilated.