OFFICIAL REPORTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1916, Page 5

OFFICIAL REPORTS.

ON THE WEST. THE FRENCH VERSION. Received Feb. 14, p.m. Paris, Feb. 14. A communique reports a series of German attacks in Artois, from Hill 140 to Buville la Folie Road, on the first westward hill in the morning, and on four others at different points in the afternoon. Our curtain of re stopped three, but the fourth attack penetrated our first line of trenches. Westward of Hill 140 we immediately counterattacked and drove out the enemy, and also secured a footing on portions of tho advanced trenches eastward of Tahure to the Somnepy Road. We carried out a destructive fire against the organisations northward of Four de Paris and our artillery crushed an enemy attack eastward of Scppois, in Alsace.

FIGHTING ON THE YSER. London, February 12. General Sir Douglas Haig reports:— The enemy early to-day broke into our •trenches near Pilcken, but were driven out. Paris, February 12. A communique states:—Our artillery and machine-gun fire frustrated attempts to cross the Yser Canal near Stecnstraete and Ilethas. There is great artillery activity in the Champagne district. ' The enemy penetrated a small salient line between the Navarin and St. Souplet roads. A counter-attack on portions of the trendies we occupied on Friday north-eastward of Bute cfe Mesnil was repulsed. Wo have further progressed, with hand grenades, eastward of these portions.

SLAUGHTER IN GALICIA. Pctrograd, February 12. A communique reports:—The enemy at Tsebroff, in Galicia, at the cost of enormous losses, dislodged us from a height we had occupied. A Russian regiment by a terrific attack again captured it, and three desperate counterattacks were repulsed with further heavy losses. FROM HIGH COMMISSIONER. Wellington, Feb. 14. The High Commissioner reports from London on February 13, 4 p.m.: North-east of Soissons, following on a bombardment, the Germans reached the French trenches near Crncy load, hut an immediate counter-attack repulsed them, leaving dead and prisoners. In the Champagne, north-cast of Butte do Mesnil, the enemy directed five counter-attacks on the evening of yesterday and in the course of the night, on the trenches captured by the French. All were repulsed. The French Admiralty slate that grave fears are entertained for the fate of the cruiser Admiral Charneau, off the coast of Syria, in view of the German claim that a submarine sank u French warship. ________