Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-26
BRITISH RELIEF
EXPEDITION IS
BADLY DEFEATED. /
Turks Administer Severe Defeat
to Forces Operating in Mesa
sopotamia.
MONTENEGRIN ARMY
Is BEING DIsARMED
Russian Advance in East Contin'
ues; 1000 Turks Captured
at Eruzerum.

1U I'll UAOX U1us
Berlin, Jan. 25.-The British force
going to the relief of the troops sur
rounded by Turks at Kurt-el-Amara,
attacked the Turkish position near
Menlari on January 81, but were re-
pulsed after an engagement lasting
six hours, according to an Official re-
port issued by the Turkish headquar-
ters staff.
The British, the announcement
says, left about 5000 dead on the
field
"The Turkish losses were compar.
atively slight.
General Aylmer, commander of
the British forces, asked and obtain
ed one days truce in order to bury
the dead.
Many Prisoners Taken.
British soldiers taken prisoners
stated that the British column also
had lost 5000 men in dead and
wounded in the preceding engage
ments near Sheik Sard.
"The Turks attacked another Brit.
ish detachment advancing to the
west of Korna, from Nun Tesik,
which caused the British to retreat.
The British left 100 dead
To Aid Armenians.
Viscount Bryce, formerly British
ambassador at Washington, today
asked the government of the United
States to take steps to send relief
to the Armenians, who, he states,
have been driven by the Turks into
the desert Of Syria and Messapota-
mia.
Capture 1000 Turks.
Four thousand Turks, including
fifty officers, were captured by the
Russians in the recent battle in the
neighborhood of Erzerum, according
to dispatch from Petrograd to Reu-
ter's Telegram company. The Rus
SLAMS are also said to have captured
scores of machine guns an enormous
quantities of munitions.
Await Receipt Of Note.
The inquiry from Washington re.
garding the British governments lat.
est order-in-council applying to "the
trading with the enemy act" has not
yet been received by the foreign Of.
flee. No controversy over the order
is expected in officials circles, how
ever, which say that the order will
'be SO applied that no bona-fide Amer.
ican firms or companies will be In.
jured.
Pass Censorship Bill.
The chamber of deputies today, by
a. vote of 1894 to 1873, sent the censor
ship bill to committee.
This bill provides that all publica-
tions must be communicated to the
government before being offered to
the public, but the censor shall have
the right to suppress such unofficial
matter as refers to military opera
tions and diplomatic relations, the
disclosures of which would be harm.
full to the national defense. ;.
~ Liner Reported Sunk.
NO further information has been
received tonight relative to the re.
ports forwarded today from Liverpool
by the Exchange Telegraph COM
pany's correspondent to the effect
that the Dominion liner, Norseman,
had been sunk. She is Of 1O,75O tons
and if sunk would be among the larg.
est vessels that have met that fate.
Montenegrins Give Up.
An official statement issued by the
Austro-Hungarian headquarters staff,
under date of January 25, says:
"All foreign reports stating that
the fighting has been resumed in
Montenegro are pure invention. The
report that King Nicholas has left
his country and army is confirmed.
"The disarming Of the Montene.
grin army is progressing without in
terruption.
"The Austro-Hungarian force which
occupied Scutari captured II cannon,
500 rifles and two machine guns"
Many Killed BY Airmen.
Allied airmen have again dropped
bombs on Monastir and Gievgli and
100 persons are estimated to have
been killed or wounded In the latter
town. Ten Germans, on their part,
have dropped explosives from aircraft
on Dunkirk, where five persons were
killed, and on the aerodrome at Man.
see and factories in Eaccarat.
Unofficial advices from Petrogra0
say the recent successes Of the Rus
SLAMS have brought them to within
less than three miles Of the town Of
Pinsk, in Bohemia.
Pass Trade Bill.
The house of commons today pass
ed the third reading Of the trading
with the enemy bill, with out divf.
sion.
Seek Separate Peaee.
Germany is continuing her efforts
to conclude a separate peace with
Serbia, according to the Athens cor.
Of the Daily Mail.
A Berlin dispatch formarded ffo0
Amsterdam by the Central News
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