, 1915-02-13

make pro1Iees there. We have captured an
additional % officers, 1900 soldiers, several
machine guns and one mortar"
An Austrian official despatch Announces:
"The general situation in Poland and West
ern Galicie remains unchanged. Fighting
continues IN the Carpathians, and Bukowina
as far rs Suczawa has been cleared of the
enemy"
The House of Commons passed without
a division the Army Estimates for 5000, 600
men, exclusive of India, and also by a
token vote provided for their pay thus
giving the Government q blank cheque.
Mr.. Tenant, Under Secretary of State
for War, said that in case of raid upon
England General Sir Ian Hamilton was in
command of q mobile force ready for service
anywhere and at any time. He declared that
the sentiment in favour of compulsory lnocu-
lation against enteric fever was increasing
and the Government was considering adopt
ing it, and Lord Kitchener felt so strongly
on the point that he was about to order the
suspension of grants of leave to those who
declined 70 be inoculated.
The enlistment of Bantam battaliOus is be-
ing considered in the mining districts, where
many under the regulation height desire to
serve, some being already in training.
The Government has arranged with the
United States to appoint Quartermasters and
Paymasters of the American army to act
as neutral war9ens to the British prisoners
of war in Germany, but it's initiation has been
delayed as Germany still has the matter un-
der consideration.
Advices from Washington, referring to the
foregoing, state that nothing has been agreed
upon yet and that it has not developed
whether both Great Britain and Germany
are agreeable. The State Department
considers that invitations should come
from Europe, as the United States will not
take The initiative in any way III suggesting
anything for the care of belligerent prisoners.
Dispatches from Cairo state that the
British are still burying the dead by scores
where they lie on the desert. This is re-
markable, in view of the fact that the Turks
advanced III open formation over a very Wild
front aud failed to drive the attack home,
thus rendering the machine gun fire COM
paratively ineffective. Where, however, at
tempts were made to cross the Canal and the
British machine guns were brought to bear,
pontoons literally filed with dead have been
brought to the surface and probably ne0r-
" ten thousand Turks were killed in the
attack.
A despatch from Mfitylene in the Greciau
Archipelago, states that several English and
French sea-planes few over Thrace, two of
the machines going as far as Adrianople and
dropping bombs on the forts.
A despatch to the "DaiIy Chronicle" from
Czernowltz states that the Russians are re-
treating in B%ukowino, strongly pressed by
superior Austro- German forces, but that they
arc stubbornly contesting every yard and are
retreating in good order.
A Berlin official bulletin states: sour
troops have occupied SucZawa, in South
eastern Bukowina. and are marching towards
Czernowitz, which has been abandoned by
the Russian Governor and his garrison, who
have retired to Novosielitza on the Russian
border, east of Czernowitz.
The Austro. German forces operating in
Bukowina are reported to number 100000