, 1916-01-26

quickly and without dIthculty mas been
received here, but it expected that some
time will elapse before it is completed.
London, Jan. 22nd The daily News"
gives prominence to an article suggesting
that the Germans are preparing II naval
surpl Use for Great Britain. The article says
the Germans are armiug their new baftleships
with II inch guns. The "Daily News adds
that it is believed the shells thrown into
Dunkilk some time ago were fred by II inch
naval guns. The "Daily Mai" asserts that
it knows upon the "highest authority that
the statement made regarding the II inch
naval guns is true.
London. Jan. 21st.-Germany's campaign
inEgyptis meeting with unexpected obstacles,
it is ann unced, due to lack of coal to oper-
ate the railway which they have constructed
southward throughout Syria o the edge
of the desert approaching the Suez Canal.
The construction of the railway has been
largely facilitated by French rails and mate
rial for a similar line, which was partially
CONSTRUCTED, but the absence of coal prevents
the actual opening of the road to transport
tation. This lack of coal has led the Germans
to reopen the old Turish mines i'll Syria
used by the Romans, but abandoned by them
q thousand years ago. The capacity of these
mines is limited TO 100000 tons annually.
A large force of Turkish labourers is engaged
in developing the mines, which are now the
chief reliance in getting The railway to Egypt
IN operation.
London, Jan. 22nd-The euter' Agen-
cys Chrlstianla correspondent sOy3 that the
expectation of butter from Norway has been
prohibited.
Constantinople, Jan. 21st (via London Jan.
22nd) The following official communication
was issued to-day. "In the Durdanelles yes
terday q cruiser and q monitor fired thirty
shells i'll the district Of Altchetepe ard Tekke
Burnu, but steamed away when our artillery
replied"
New York, Jan. 22nd The Norwegian
freight steamer "Sygna'' put back to this port
to-day with a fire in her hold. She sailed
yesterday for Archangel with q large cargo
consigned to the Russian Govt. Officers
and members of the fl eighter'a crew said so
far as they knew no explosion preceded the
fire, but they were unable to offer an ex-
PLANTATION of how a blaze originated in q
holl which they said contained only struc-
tional steel and railway material.
London, Jnnuny 22nd.-A despatch to
the Exchange Telegraph Company from
Rome says: "a message received from
Sofia by why OF Bucharest says that Brit
ish Vice-Consul Heard has been arrested, by
the Bulgarian authorities, despite the pro-
test of the American Charge d'A1aires i'll
whose rooms he had taken refuge.
New York, January 22nd.-Tbe Anne
rican steamship "New York" arrived
to-day from Liverpool and reported hov-
ing experienced Que of the hardest
passages in her history. During one of
the series of hurricanes which struck the
ship three lifeboats and two coIlapsible boats
were carried away. On Jan. 10th north
west gales kicked up such high seas that
the "New York" was only able to steam
$50 miles.
Paris, Jany. 22nd.-A despatch from Ma
drid last night said official announcement
had been made there to the effect that Ger
man troops in the Kameruns, retl eating be-
fore the victorious British forces, had crossed
the border into Spanish Guinea where they
were to be interned. A later message from
the Madrid correspondent of the Hava's
Agency said that the Spanish Ministers of
War and Marine on being questioned con-
corning tie announcement declared they had
received no news that German troops had
actually penetrated Spanish territory. In
any event, they said, British troops would
not pursue them across the border.
London, Jany. 23rd.-The War Office
announces that, taking advantage of the
bright moonlight, a hostile aeroplane visited