Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-27
BRITISH ARMY
IS IN PERIL At
ADEN, REPORT
Turks and Arabs Attack
ing "Gibraltar of East
Berlin Hears.
TERRITORY PROTECTING
SUEZ CANAL MPERILED
British Losses Are Estimated at
$4,000 Killed and 10000
Wounded.
GERMANS TAKE POSITIONS
OF FRENCH AT MELVILLE
Roar of Artillery Heard Along
Entire Western Line, Ber-
lin Reports. !
TERRITORY PROTECTING
SUEZ CANAL IMPERILED
GERMANS TAKE POSITIONS
OF FRENCH AT MELVILLE
BY the United Press.


BERLIN. via wireless to SavviIle.
Jan. 2I-Twenty thousand British
troops defending the Arabian sea-
port of Alden are now under heavy
attack by combined Arab and Turk
ish forces and in dangerous posi-
tion, according to reports received
here today. i
The Cologne Nolks Zeitune received
a report from Cairo. dated December
SO, declaring that the British have
lost $4,000 in killed and 10000 wound-
ed IN hghting around Alden since the
beginning of the war. A wounded
British major is given as authority
for the statement that Arabian sheiks
have gone over to the Turks and
that nearly 100000 square miles of
Arabian territory formerly controlled
by the British has been lost to thems
The Arabians, ii is stated. are using
arms given them by the British.
Berlin reported severa! weeks ago
that Turkish force had driven the
British in upon Alden and was pre-s
port was subsequently denied by the
British officials.
Alden is strongly fortified and Isl
known as the "Gibraltar of the East
because of tho position it holds with
reference to the Suez canal it is al
trading. .center of the greatest im-
| portance.
BERLIN. CLAN. q (by wireless to
Sayville)-The German attack on the
French positions near Neuville was
resumed yesterday, and, according to
the war office statement of today, be-
tween 500 and 600 yards of the French
lines were captured.
by the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Jan. 27 (via London, II SIS
a. m.)-Reports from France and
Flanders say that a favorable turn in
the weather has been followed by
active fighting on the entire western
front. Along nearly the whole line
the roar OF artillery is heard, but the
heaviest fighting has been in the
vicinity of Nieuport, to the north of
Ypres and in the Argonne.
German patrolng parties brought
back word that German artillery had
done effective work against trenches
of the allies near Nieuport. The
British artillery, it is said, was hardly
less active than that of the Germans.
On one section of the front the
British fired 100 shrapnel shells, 700
high explosive shells and about the
same number of bombs within
period of twenty-four hours. The
mine explosions mentioned in Tues
days official bulletin of the German
headquarters staff were four in num-
ber. The Germans Immediately oc-
cupied the craters caused by the ex-
plosions.
In another section near Neuville
the Germans announced that they
captured three successive lines of
French trenches and held them sue
cessfully against eight counter at
tacks, and it is affirmed that these
| trenches are still i'm German hands,
although the fighting for possession
of them has assumed the character
of hand-to-hand encounters. The
Germans also claim good progress to
the south of Arras through the work
of the sappers and miners
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Jan. 27.-There are grave
fears in London in regard to General
Townshend's beleaguered British gar-
riSou at Klt-el-Amara, Mesopotamia.
and even for General Aylmer'S RELIEF
expedition. following the Turkish Of
fetal report that in his effort to cut
through the Turkish lines around Kut
on January 81 Aylmer lost 1900 dead
and was driven back several miles.
The Turks also reported that Ayl~
mer lost an additional 5000 men in
dead and wounded in his previous
attacks. a total of 5000.
The Turks have refrained from arr
tacking ToWnshend. believing his
supplies especially water-are so low
he will he compelled to surrender
! There is fear here that Aylmer. too.
may be trapped and forced to res