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Show jj British Meet Appalling Losses in Fight With Turks in Mesopotamia ! BULGARIAN FORCES ADVANCE INTO CENTRAL ALBANIA AND MEET DEFEAT f Austrian Drive Down Eastern Coast of Adriatic Continues Albanian Seaport San Giovanni di Medua Is Captured Active Artillery Fighting Continues on French Front, the Germans Claim Victory Over Their Opponents. i London, Jan. 26, 1 :05 p. m. Bulgarian forces are "said !to have advanced into central Albania and to have come in contact with Albanian troops under Essad Pasha, provisional president of Albania, who is co-operating with the entente al-' al-' lies. Dispatches from Tirana, Albania, to Brindisi, Italy, as forwarded by the Exchange Telegraph company, say that an advance guard of the Bulgarians has been defeated near El :, Bassan by Essad Pasha's forces. j j Berlin. aJn. 26, by Wireless to Say- i rville. An official Turkish statement received here today says British for- ces in Mesopotamia made another at- ,' tack upon the Turks but gave up the :i effort after sustaining appalling los- 'j aes. The enegagement occurred near JMenlarie, about 20 mileB east of Kut- iel-Amara, where a British force is ' surrounded by the Turks. ,' The statement follows: j "Mesopotamian front: The British $ "made an attack near Menlarie, but 1 igave up after suffering appalling Ioss- es. ' "There were . intermitten artillery j i duels near Kut-el-Amara. J "On January 18 Turkish troops - (made a surprise attack on the enemy's .camp west of Korna, killing numer- "ous enemies and a great number of 1 -cattle. U "Caucasus front: Skirmishes occur- ; ired on our right wing near Murad j river." j ' Paris, Jan. 26, via London, 3:50 p. I m. The following report was given j out at the war office this afternoon: 5 "In the Artois district there was ) sustained artillery activity in the sec- tor of Neuvillo St. Vnast. Last night j we made an attack which enabled us to expel the Germans from one of '' 'the craters made by the mine explosions explo-sions of yesterday. "Between the Somme and the j Avre, south of Chaulnes, our batteries j pombarded the enemy barracks at 'Hattencourt and destroyed an obser- . vation post near Barvillers. ' "There is nothing to report regard- ( tfng the remainder of the front." J Germans Repulse French. U Berlin, Jan. 26, ria London, 3:15 t jP. m. A great number of counter at- ' Itacks were made by the French yes- Iterday to recapture the trenches tak- jen by the Germans east of Nueville, but they were repulsed each time aft- j ler hand-to-hand fighting, says the' :! statement issued today by the German Ger-man army headquarters staff. The statement follows: "Western theatre: The French attempted at-tempted in a great number of counter coun-ter attacks to recapture the trenches we took east of Nueville. They were repulsed on each occasion after hand-to-hand fighting. "French mine operations in the Ar-gonne Ar-gonne destroyed our trenches over a short distance near Hill 285, northeast north-east of La Chalade. We occupied the crater they made after having frustrated frus-trated the attack of the enemy. "Naval aeroplanes attacked the military mil-itary establishments of the enemy near La Panne. Our army aeroplanes attacked the railway establishments of Loos, southwest of Dixmude and of Bethune "Regarding the other theatres of wai there is nothing to report." Review of War Situation. The position of the British govern "nient on two matters of prime importance im-portance In the conduct of the war is to be determined as a result of proceedings pro-ceedings under way today. The attitude atti-tude of labor toward compulsory military mili-tary service will be decided at the great conference meeting today in Bristol. The debate on the question of a' blockade of Germany is before the house of commons. The Bristol conference is the most important of this kind ever held in England, representing more than 2-000,000 2-000,000 members of trades unions. The compulsory military service bill having passed the house of commons and encountered little opposition in the house of lords the outcome of the long campaign on this issuo will depend largely on the attitude of organized or-ganized labor. There are intimations, unofficial in nature, that the British government has decided against a formal blockade of Germany. The Austrian drive down the eastern east-ern coast of the Adriatic having passed beyond the Montenegrin border, bor-der, is now reported to have resulted in the capture of an Albanian seaport sea-port San Giovanni dl Medua. Herr Von Sternburg Dead. Berlin, Jan. 26, by Wireless to Say-jille, Say-jille, James Alexander Speck von Sternburg, brother of the late Baron von Sternburg, who was German ambassador am-bassador at Washington, is dead at the age of 60. One of Horr von Stern-burg's Stern-burg's sons was killed on the French front early In the war and another is a prisoner in France. Germans Ransack House: Paris, Jan. 26, 4:55 a. m. Emile Vandervelde, anember of the Belgian government, received news today that J his house at Ixelles, one of the suburbs su-burbs of Brussels, has been searched by the German military authorities, says a dispatch from Havre to the Petit Journal. All the locks were burst open, including those on the jewel boxes belonging to Madame Vandervelde, the contents of which, however, were left untouched. It Is supposed, the dispatch says, the Germans Ger-mans were looking -for documents of an international character butvfound nothing. London Reports Fight. London, Jan. 26, 6 p. m. The British Brit-ish press bureau today gave out the following communication, dealing with fighting in Mesopotamia "From further communications the recent fighting on the Tigris took place 23 miles below Kut-el-Amara and not as previously stated seven miles from Kut. "The mistake arose through a misunderstanding mis-understanding at the India office in connection with the references in the telegrams to the Es Sinn position which is known to have been strongly entrenched. "There is nothing further to report." re-port." The statement that the British relief re-lief force has reached a position only seven miles from Kut was made in the house of commons January 20 by Austen Chamberlain, secretary for India. In-dia. American Note Arrives. London, Jan. 26, 1:15 p. m. The American note regarding Great Britain's Brit-ain's -Trading -.With the -Enemy-Act has arrived here and will be deliv-. ered to the British foreign office to-' day. The act prohibits persons resident in Great Britain from trading with any corporations or individuals engaged en-gaged In supplying the Teutonic allies, or from any business dealings with them. The United States, in its representations rep-resentations to Great Britain, contend the act lacks legal authority and would Injure the Interests of that country. All Dock Yards Busy. London, Jan. 26, 4:08 p. m. A. J. Balfour, first lord of the admiralty, stated in the house of commons today to-day that the British government had no evidence that Germany possessed seventeen-inch guns, but that it was not Impossible. He said every British Brit-ish dock yard was at work either on new naval construction or repairs for Britain and her allies. |
