NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17114, 20 September 1917, Page 4

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

"Vigilant."—We are referring your letter to the authorities. "C.G.H."—A very complex summary of the report of the Mesopotamia Commission was published in the London papers of June 27. If you desire an official copy of the report it is obtainablo from • H.M. Stationery Office, Imperial House, Kingsway ; London, W.O. 2. The price of Imperial publications varies according k> the volume. In this case it will probably be two or three shillings. " E.J.N." —Since July British advances have been made chiefly in the neighbourhood of Ypres and near Lens, on the north and south of that town. Cooperating with the French, the British have pushed northward of Ypres. The French have .advanced from Bboschooto to the Hanneboke stream, towards Merckem and Dreibank. The British have advanced northward to Longemarck and beyond St. Julien; eastward of Ypres past Frezeuberg to Westhock, and past Hoogo to Nonno Boschen (Nun's Wood); south-east of Ypres, past Hill 60 to Klein Zillebeke and to Hollehepe on the western side of the Ypres-Com-inos Canal, and then eastward of Wytschaete and Messines past Post Tavcrno and Gaspard and to within a milo of Warneton. Eastward of Plocgsteert they have advanced to the Lys between the Douavo near Warneton and Lo Toquet near Frelinghien, near tho point where the British line crosses the Lys and encircles Armentieres. From Arrnentieres to Givenchy, near Festubert, north of tho La Bassee Canal, there has been no progress since the costly capture of Neuve Chapelle and the Bois Gronier. On the Lens sector tho British _in June took Lievin, the Vimy Heights, and the villages of Vimy, Arleux, and Willorval. " In July tho Canadians took Hill 70, north of Lens, Cite St. Laurent, and part of Bois Hugo. The Lens ruins are still hold by the Prussians. On the rest of the line running roughly south-oast from Arras towards St. Quentin no town's or important villages have lately been taken, but some important " points «d' appni " have- been captured near Havrinconrt «and eastward of Epehy.