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Show oo BRITISH FORCES WIN IN KAMERUM London, Jan. 21, 1020 p. m. A 'British official statement issued tonight to-night on the operations in the Kara-erun, Kara-erun, on the west coast of Africa, fellows: After the occupation of Yaunde on January 1, the entente allied columns col-umns which were dispatched in an endeavor to cut off the enemy's retreat re-treat reached Koimaka, on the Nyong river On January 8 they released a number of allied prisoners, both mili-tiry mili-tiry and civilian. By the IStli reports received from Colonels Mayer and Bayward state the Germans evacuated Ebolowa and Altono-Linga, and that the' German governor. Ebmaier, and the German commandant, Zimmerman, escaped into Spanish Muni. Fighting is also reported farther south, close to the German-Spanish border, where two small French pol-unins pol-unins advancing from the coast and fi om the French Congo are trying to nrevent the escape of the Germans into 'Muni. Resolved Upon Victory. Florence, Italy, Jan. 19, 8 p. m. In an address delivered here, Antonio Salandra, the Italian premier, said: "We thought this would be a short and easy war, but it has become a long and hard one. We had thought that all the hardships would be of a military character, but we find it difficult, dif-ficult, even behind the front to keep on fighting. However, we are going to do it and we shall persevere until the victory Is won." Buying Up Grain. Bucharest, Rumania, Jan. 19, via Berlin and London. Jan 21, 1:45 p. m. - An Anglo-French corporation with a canilal of 480,000,000 leu (about 596-000,000) 596-000,000) has been formed to buy up all available grain, s0 that the central powers will be unable to import needed need-ed supplies. It Is not known what use will be made by the allies of the proposed purchases. |