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Show I Villa Bandits Raid Camps and Attack U. S. Soldiers at Border ! NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN AUSTRIA I AND MONTENEGRO BROKEN OFF ' III Co"ditioEs of Surrender Imposed by Austria Unacceptable t King Royal Family and Diplomatic Corps to Leave for II Italy-New Offensive Movement by Russians Starts II Last of Czernowitz Austrians Claim Repulse of II Four Successive Attacks Fighting' i on the Yser. E . t I-; ' I London, Jan. 1 9, 3 : 43 p. m. Harold J. Tennant, parlia- -jj mentary Under-Secretary for war, announced in the house of Jg commons this afternoon that the total German casualties as 1 published in the Berlin casualty lists to date, total 2,535,768. JJ .' Of this number he said 588,986 were killed. oil ; , The war Under-Secretary said the German wounded and I missing numbered 1,566,549 while 356,153 men had been dS i; taken prisoner. In addition 24,080 Germans had died from 51 1; various causes. ', .' . I ; ' . . Paris' Jan' 9' via Lndon, 2 : 1 5 p. m. The following of-m of-m f ficial statement was issued today: el "The wireless news of the surrender of the Montenegrin i I army appears somewhat premature. It is now announced Jifjl from another source that negotiations between Austria and Montenegro have been broken, the conditions of surrender im- i '( posed by Austria having been found quite unacceptable by if ,. Montenegro. i ;' " 1 he king, the royal family and the diplomatic corps are 1 ) about to proceed to Italy." I I I London, Jan. 19, 4:30 p. m. The steamship Marere has I been sunk. Her crew was rescued. j The Marere of 6,443 tons gross, was owned in London. ) She was 450 feet long and was built in Belfast in 1902. No I I records of her recent movements are available. i j t Berlin, Jan. 19, by Wireless to Say-' Say-' . Yille. A new offensive movement has ' ', been inaugurated by the Russians lo ! the east of Czernowitz near the Bes-' Bes-' ' sarabian frontier. The official Aus ! ; tnan statement of today says the Rus- ; sians made four successuve attacks 5j at several places but were repulsed. j "Western theater: On the Yser PrtrdrifSi small German detachment ad-1 ad-1 vanced Into the enemy trenches and I h captured one machine gun. There ' have been mining operations by both i sides on the front west of Lille and as far south as the Somme river. "During the night enemy airmen : ' dropped bombs on Metz So far only I material damage has been reported. t "An enemy aeroplane fell this morn-K morn-K . ing southwest o Thiancourt. One of ,i the occupants was killed." j The statement follows: New Battle Begun, i. . "On the eastern front yesterday ' was calm. This morning a now bat-l bat-l ' tie. was begun near Toporoutz and Re- yan on the frontier east f Czernowitz. i ' At several places the enemy made ' four sucessive attacks but was repulsed repuls-ed everywhere. ) : "Italian front: Weak detachments . I of' Italian troops were repulsed near I Luseni and north of the bridgehead ; at Tolmino. : r 'Balkan front: A delayed report : from Virhazar stated that twenty ; steel cannon wer taken there." t 't Turks Repulse Russians, 3 ' Constantinople now announces that -, the Ottoman armies repulsing the j ' Russian advance in the Caucasus have been reinforced and have checked the ; ' Russians along the entire front Grand I Duke Nicholas forces have suffered 3 , severely, according to the Turkish - statement which claims that only i ' slight changes in position have been . effected by the Russian operations. On the other hand a Petrograd official of-ficial statement claims that the cara-naign cara-naign In the Caucasus is developing favorably to the Russians who have taken strong Turkish positions. Good progress also is being made ir. the Russian campaign in Persia, Petrograd declares. New LiflhtJn Greece . Little new light has been thrown" upon happenings in Greece, whence reports of strongly aggressive- movements move-ments on the part of the entente powers have come through German sources. A London dispatch says the British foreign office believes the German reports to be unfounded. Situation Favors -Turks. Constantinople, Jan. 19, via Amsterdam Am-sterdam and London, 10:02 a. m. The following official statement was issued at Turkish army headquarters: "Caucasian front: Tho Russians who sustained considerable losses in consequence of our violent attacks and owing to our reinforcements, were compelled to abandon their attacks at-tacks along the entire front. Despite De-spite eight days of very violent offensive of-fensive operations by superior enemy forces, the situation, apart from slight changes, remains favorable to us. There Is otherwise no new development." de-velopment." Finance Ministers to Meet. . London, Jan. 19, 9:05 a. m. The Exchange Telegraph company's Amsterdam Am-sterdam correspondent says that a conference of the finance miuisters of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria will be held next week in Vienna The chief purpose of the conference. It is said, Is to discussion discus-sion of the financial position of the Teutonic allies and the adoption of measures to meet certain contingencies. contingen-cies. Berlin, Jan. 19, via London. The German army headquarters staff today to-day gave out the following statement: "Eastern theater: There is nothing to report except that a German air squadron attacked enemy storage depots and an aerial port at Tamo-pol. Tamo-pol. "Balkan theater: The situation is unchanged." Paris, Jan. 19, via London, 2:16 p. m. The communication issued this afternoon by the war department says : "There is nothing to report since the preceding official communication." communica-tion." Kaiser Meets Bulgarian King. London, Jan. 19, 2:35 p. m. A dispatch dis-patch received by Router's Telegram company says that Emperor William met King Ferdinand of Bulgaria In Nish, Serbia, yesterday. -This information infor-mation was forwarded from Nish by way of Berlin. "The monarchs gieeted each other cordially," tho despatch says, "and then reviewed from the citadel a procession pro-cession of Bulgarian, Macedonian and German troops. ' "The emperor presented King Ferdinand Ferdi-nand with a field marshal's baton and the king appointed the emperor honorary honor-ary commander of a Bulgarian infantry in-fantry regiment. "In the emperor's retinue were General von Falkenhayn. chief of the general staff. Field Marshal von Mackensen, Adjutant Generals von Plessen, von Chellus and von Lyncker and Admiral von Mueller. King Ferdinand Ferdi-nand was accompanied by Princess Boris and Cyril, Premier Radoslavoff and others." Official announcement was made in Berlin Sunday that Emperor William had recovered his health completely and had returned to the front. London, Jan. 19, 3:5S p. m. Harold J. Tennant, parliamentary under-sec-retary for war, stated In the house of commons this afternoon that he thought a quarter, or an eighth, of tho two million pounds sterling attributed in the Turkish reports as the value of the booty left when the British evacuated evacu-ated GallipoH peninsula, would cover everything left behind. Berlin, Jan. 19, by Wireless to Say-ville. Say-ville. An association has been formed form-ed in Hamburg under the name of Inero-American Society Its purpose Is to promote cultural relations with -South,.ancLCientral. America", Spainand Portugal. Dr. Schardel has been elected elec-ted president. Liner Beached on Shoal. Gravesend, Jan. 19, 4:47 p. m. The Ryndam is beached on a muddy shoal about fivo miles below Gravesend. No one is permitted to approach the vessel. ves-sel. Even tho ship's officers are not permitted to come ashoro except for the purpose of consulting officials of the steamship company. No lights are permitted at night on the deck. Apparently there Is no prospect that the vessel will be re-floated for several sev-eral days. The American consul said after an investigation that he was satisfied that none of the three stokers who wcro killed was an American citizen. . on |