HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORTS
FIGHTING IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM.
The High Commissioner reported, London, January 20 (5.30 p.m.): — Paris reports that artillery duels are general. Between the sea and the Somme and in the region of Nieuport there was a lively duel, the enemy vainly attempting to destroy a bridge at the mouth of the Yser, and the Allies succeeding in demolishing port,ion of the enemy's defences, also their auxiliary works and a farm near St. Georges, which the enemy had strongly organised for defence. In La Oniric wood the enemy violentlyattacked one trench. The Allies' troops recoiled for the instant, but recaptured bv two energetic counter-attacks first the greater part, and subsequently the whole of the position, and they are now holding it.
At St. Hubert the Germans Exploded a salient north-east of the Allies' trenches, hut the defending troops, rushing into the connecting outlets, prevented the enemy gaining acccss to it. North of Pont-a-Mousson, in the wood, the Allies have now established themselves 100 metres beyond the trenches taken on Monday.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16288, 22 January 1915, Page 5
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