HIGH COMMISSIONER'S MESSAGES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14283, 27 April 1917, Page 3

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S MESSAGES.

Tho High Commissioner reports: — ■

LONDON, April 25. •* Salonika, reports ihat last night, after a 'bombardment lasting three days \\\ attacked the enemy positions on a from of two ami a-haflf miles between the south end of Lake Doirin and Dobbze»H North oif the latter we advanced 500 yards on a mile front during the night, repelling four counter-attacks, with loss, and consolidating our positions. Further east we penetrated the enemy trenches, but were unable to retain them. Fighting continues. A Mesopotamia message states : Th. list of ..captures at Istabulat on the 21st and 22nd includes 20 officers, 667 men, 0ne, 5.9-inch gun/ 14 Krupps, a quantity of smaller guns, and) other war and railway material. ;

On Tuesday » surprise Attack on the west bank of /the "Shotteladhaim drovo back the enemy ten miles. We took 131 prisoners. * / , British official : Gur line advanced slightly during tlie da v south of the Scarpe river. »

Two German field guns were captured m yesterday's fight m this neighborhood. Many thousand German 'dead are lying on the battlefield which we occupied. Several hostile raiding parties Wert repulsed near Lens and xpres. Our aeroplanes made many raids yes terday, bombing with good effect railway junctions, aerodromes, 'billets, and ammunition camps. In one raid a large bomb struck an engine of a moving train, blowing irfie engine off the line and. wrecking the train. Hostile troops and transport wei«e successfully engaged with. machine-gun fire. French official : North of Vauxhaillon an attack on our trenches" was checked by artillery and machine-gun nre. The Germans sustained a sanguinary check m an attempt to attack the H-i.rlV bise farm. They were stopped the first time by our fire. ,TEey renewed the assault, font a. counter-attack threw them back on their, own. lines. • • LONDON, April 26. . Sir Douglas Haig reports: Early m the night the enemy again endeavored to attack ojir new positions at Gavrelle The advancing tuoops were caught by onr artillery barrage and completely re-' pulsed. . ■ LONDON, April 26, 3.15 p.m. French official : Yestei-day after n violent bombardment the enemy launched twice unsHccessfiilly on a front of aibout two (kiU)mfc#-es \viestwa)rds of Cerney powerful attacks, which broke down on our lines ■•with heavy losses. Another attempt m the region of Hurt-ebon's farm was likewise unsuccessful. • *