, 1914-12-12
SUPPLEMENT TO ST. CR0X AVIS No. SO, 18th DECEMBER, 1914.

vised him to return to Berlin, as his strength
was greatly impaired in the course OF count
less marches and counter marches and by
many disappointments in the last few
months. He is now lying in his castle at
Berlin nursed by the Empress, and it is re-
ported that he is in so serious a condition
that the public have been warned by Gen
eral Won Kessler, Commandant of Berlin, to
refrain from any demonstration before the
castle windows. His physicians report that
the patient is feverish and coughs c%ontinu-
ally and is unfit for the cares of State. A
telephone connects his room with head
quarters, but be is no longer in direct chargU
Of the operations. Should his illness be Of
long duration possibly the Grown Prince will
be entrusted with the supreme command.
Special prayers have been ordered to be
offered.
A French official bulletin states: San
advance has been made by our troops before
Parvilliers, and a German attack upon Tracy
lie Val has been repulsed."
The following British official bulletin has
been published: "Sudhi Boy, the Comman-
der OF the Turkish forces at Kurna, surren-
dered Internationally with his troops on
Wednesday to the Indian Expeditionary
Force operating at the head of the Fersian
Gulf. Kurpa was subsequently, occupied
DN Ii bIltIou lOICCH3 Ii L " III COIA4@
rlete control of the country from the June
ton Of the Tigris and Euphrates to the sea,
and also of the richest part of the fertile
Delta. A reconnaissance of the enemy's
position was made on Saturday by Colonel
Frazer with the One Hundred and Tenth Nah
rata Light Infantry. The enemy was en-
countered on the left bank of tue Tigris,
opposite Kurna, and was promptly attacked
aud driven across the river, losing heavily,
and two guns and seventy prisoners, includ-
ing three Turkish officers, were captured.
Kurna was found to be strongly held by
guns and infantry, and the British finding
no means of crossing the Tigris, withdrew
to their original bivouac. On Sunday reen-
~forcements were sent from Basra under GEN
eral Fry, who captured Masera and cleared
the left bank of the Tigris, taking three
guns and one hundred prisoners, including
three officers, On Tuesday the British
crossed the river, aud on Wednesday, as
already stated, Subhi Bey surrendered The
British casualties were one British officer
killed and three wounded. while forty Of the
Indian rank and file were killed and one hun
dred and twenty wounded
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London, Dec. lOth-The following official
communicate has to-day been issued at Pc
IL ~ SAC "a AAINf q Va l. =
day the fighting was less stubborn. On the
left bank of the Vistula on Monday the Ger
mans, under cover Of darkness, began q
simultaneous offensive movement along the
whole front from Hoff to GlCwne, making
repeated stubborn attacks III company col
umns, but we're repulsed at every point. The
enemy was revealed il the beams OF our
searchlights and was decimated by our fire,
and when the moon came out his attacks
ceased. On Tuesday the Germans renewed
their desperate fighting Oh the Lowicz-Ilow
front without success. In the region of
Petrokow the fighting has continued without
modification of the situation. South of Ora
cow stubborn fighting continues, both sides
alternately taking the offensive. The Ger
mans twice tried to pierce our front, but
were repulsed with heavy losses. No ships
of the enemy were sighted III the Black Sea
on Tuesday"
The communique further says: '"The Ger
man communique asserts that the Russians
suffered enormous losses in evacuating LODI,
but it's rustworthiness is gagged by the fact
that the Russians retired from the city at
midnight on Saturday, while the Germans
were inactive for fifteen hours before our
empty trenches, the assault on which had
cost them over 10000 men, and they were
afraid to advance. On Sunday afternoon
they ascertained that nobody was facing
them, and after that they entered the town.
In changing our positions in the Lode dis
trict we did not lose a single man. We
undertook this nmuvr only after we'll
establishing that the Germans had complete
~ abandoned the idea OF continuing their
attacks in this region and our manosuvre
was quite independent of any pressure on
the part of the enemy"
A despatch to the Times from Kraguje-
vatz, Servia, dated Tuesday, states that the
Austrians were then in full and disordered
flight. Three army corps were broken aud
1O, 200 prisoners. forty-two guns. wentJ11a