OFFICIAL MESSAGES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13728, 17 March 1915, Page 6

OFFICIAL MESSAGES.

The Prime Minister has received the following by coble from the Jligh Commissioner:—

London, Mairh .1(5, 4.30: p.m. Paris reports that mo iielgian Army continued to progress at the bend of the Ysor and "south nf DixrmuK

At Neuvo Gliap«\.v the i.i.-sit.On is unchanged. The w:\.is \ .-. sU'.'i!,iy very .violently eounto;--s<U; .k-.-i1 i'or Vi third time to'retako tl ■ i-i'er.ohes captured between Foure cv 'l\uis iu:tl Bolante, and was agiuii rtv!" M"'British troops s^iih foil bat.!; he St. Eloi, south of V[i'Cn yes-t ;>!■(!:)y evening, under a very vi- '.vat sUaek. Coun-ter-attacking, they i -too* a portion of the ground ceded. . .^hLi^g continues. The Admiralty cot: '-m • iie Unking of the steamships 1 rir::;vn, Headlands and Hartdaleby s'. «imur,ar^ on March llfrh, 12th, and, 13in respectively. London, March 16, 2.55 a.m. The War Office announces the following casualties in the Army:— Officers: Killed 15, wounded 30, missing I, rejoined 1. Paris reports that the day was marked by a number of gains by the Allies. The Germans tried to recapture a small fort, which was earned by the Allies on Thursday night, but were repulsed, leaving 55 dead. South of Ypres the British were compelled to fallback from a trench taken yesterday, but retained the trench, notwithstanding many counter-attacks. North of Arras the Allies' infantry, by a brilliant attack, captured at one bound three lines of trenches, and took 1.00 prisoners, and munitions. In the region of Curio .tfoclineourt, the Allies blew up several German trenches, and prevented the enemy from reconstructing them. In the region of Albert the Germans exploded a mine under an Allies' trench, and occupied a position of the trench, but the Allies regained it.

In the Champagne region we gained ground north-east of Souain and north-west of Perthes.

In the region of Bagateite an enemy blockhouse was demolished, and the site was occupied by us. London, March 16, 4.30 p.m. Petrograd reports that in Northern Poland, on the whole front in the region of Prasnysz from Mlawa railway to the Ordec river, and on the left bank, the Russians progressed, fighting all the way. German counler-at-tacks were everywhere repulsed. The guns of Ossowiec put- out of action enemy heavy siege batteries. In the Carpathians Austrian attacks directed at Baligrod, and German attacks near Kosziowa, were repulsed. In East Galicia the enemy were thrown back in the region north of Ofcerten.