The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-22
Buns Silenced and City
 Laid in Ruins by Terrific Bombardment From Rus
 sian Fleet
|NURKS CLAIM HUGE
 LOSSES TO BRITISH AT DARDANELLES
hsquith Says in the House
 of Commons That Only
 Three Casualties Resulted From Withdrawal

\ London, December 22.--The Daily ahronfcle reports the capture of Var "a, BuIgaria's chief Black sea port. by ae Russians. 1t says the bombardment t the Russians siIenced the Bulgarian snns and laid the town in ruins. the Narrfson suffering heavily.
 h The Russian then, according to the k.port. landed infantry and artillery Eithout loss and in sufficient force hold the town against Bulgarian att cI.
 krhe Albanian port of Durazzo is said E be the latest objective of the Teutonic- Bulgarian campaign in the Balkans. Prong forces are believed to be march, &y across Albania in an effort to fore kll Italian occupation of the coast ! Ea the meantime there is no indication g the development by the central pow IS cf an offensive against the allies in a cedonia. On the contrary, it is report the Bulgarians are entrenching them- Ewes along the Serbo-Gree border. Fhe only additional details of the with &awal of the British forces from the sllipoli peninsula revealed from British Lrces today were those gieaned from femier Asauith's speech in the House Commons, in which he stated that E British losses were confined to three sn wounded, a few guns abandoned ter being rendered useless, and ar in- nificant amount of stores which were Et behind.
 From Turco-German sources, however, eral contradictory d-taiis reached ndon. The Constantinople e 1nm- Education gave the Turkish side Of the thdrawal, and it was somewhat ampli- i by a Constantinople dispe.~', c'~ou- led through the Berlin wireless.
 TURKISH REPORT
 Both these dispatches claimed "enor- bus British losses on the Seddul- Bahr mt and the taking of an fmmeasurable Eount of booty at Suv-a and Anzac. om the Turkish account it appears that retirement was aided oy a heavy E, while terrific British attacks from
 Seddul-Bahr postion-which has not en abandoned--provided a feint diver
 
 Eches no fresh details have been pub ned in London and ar the London vspapers refrain from speculation re- ding the manner of the withdrawal. here has been renewed British sub rine activity in Turkish waters, Athens orting that British underwater boat I sunk the German steamer Leros and Feral other craft in the Sea of Mar ra- In addition the bombardment and pture of the Bulgarian port of varna the Black sea. by Russian fleet, is orted in press dispatches.
 GREECE TRANQUIL
 he situation on the Greek front re- ins tranquil although the greatest ac- ity prevails in the allied camps and
 port of Saloniki. The proposed entry Rulgarians into Greece with a German ny is at present the supiect of diplo- tic pourparlers in Athens and the rek public is more keenly aro.--~- ~--7- matter than any phase of the situa- which heretofore have threr-1--~' to cipitate a crisis. The results of the 4ek elections are interpreted by the ss favorable to former Premin~ ----' ,s and as defeat for the government, seing declared that the returns show k nearly ninc-tenths of the electorate owed the adherenrs of -enizelos in using to go to the polls.
 he possibility of further Zeppelin ac- ty is agitating London as tSn result the receipt of telegram from Ame- d, Holland, stating that at F o'clock. n. today an airship passed over North eland bound in westerly direction. .otland Yard tonight issued note of ming 10 worshippers that if they desire hold watch-hight service they must care to observe the orders regard
 the shading of lights .n churches as e possibility of attacks by hostile air it at this time of the year cannot be tegarded ''