The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-28
Cairo Dispatch Declares h. vaders Suffer Heavily
 From Machine Fire-Eng- land Depreciates Affair
l NOTHING HEARD OF RUMORED GERvE>
 MILITARY VEr SIRE
Terrific Attacks .I' Allies Lines in VI c o&epulsed. Increasing ,lvity Along Eastern Frontier

l Washington, January 27.-Defeat of Turkish force near Karna by the British army moving into Asiatic Tur- key was announced today in foreign office dispatch to the British embassy here. Previous reports from Con- stantin0ple said the British offensive at this point had been repulsed with heavy losses.
 l London. January 27.-(9,4O n. m The advance guard of the Turkish army undertaking an invasion of Egypt has reached the British outpost enst of the suex canal, where the first sIxir- mish of the war in this region took place yesterday. Official reports say the clash was q small affair, only one British officer being wounded, but dis patches from Cairo declare the invaders suffered heavily from the British ma- chine guns.
 The dispatches do not disclose the size | VI hihN ui hiSii IoICt tDSdSeu, put say the fight took place, east of Elkantara which Is on the Suez canal, and is the ter minus of the caravan route, from Rafati l the border station between Egypt -ailt i! Syria The distance from Rafati to El l kantara is 143 miles. As the British hat 1 filled in all the wells along the caravan route, the invaders would have had tt 1 tl.et,. is supplied by pipe line from a fresf water stream which runs under the Suez l canal
 1 It is said the fighting of the forces was with the Arab or Kurdish horsemen em- ployed by the Turks as scouts from the main army under Djemal Pasha, which consists of three army corps and which is believed to have had hardly time to cross the desert. The British have a strong force to guard the canal.
 Severe Attacks l Nothing has been heard of the military venture which it was reported the Ger mans were preparing for Emperor Wil. Hams birthday unless the attacks on the French, at Ypres and on the British at La Bassee were intended a.s such. All off l cial accounts agree that these attacks were very severe. but beyond this there ] is nothing in common between the ac- counts of the allies and the Germans con- corning the fighting.
 l The French communication tonight re- peats the statement that the Germans were repulsed with heavy losses, while the Germans say the British were unable to recapture their former positions. Similar contradictory statements are ! made regarding the severe fighting taking place near Craonne and Perthes in the Argonne and in the vicinity of St. Mihiel. I In all these cases both sides claim vic I tories
 Increasing Activity i There has been increasing activity along 1 the eastern front. The Russians there are reported to be pushing their offensive l both in East Prussia and in Poland, north | of the lower Victula, while the Germans 1 are said to have been repeating their at- l tacks in central Poland. In Galicia an Aus | tro-German force attempted an offensive | which, according to the Russian accounts did not meet with success.
 Roumana. which has just received a l loan of e25.009 from the Bank of England. is said to be watching closely the concen- traton of the Austro- German force in Pennsylvania, which might be used either 1 against her or the Russians advancing 1 through Bukowina.
 | The loan to Roumania was advanced by | the Bank of England to the Bank of Roumania against treasury bills.