Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-17
Hungarian Premier An
nOunceS Peace Made
With MonrenegrinS.
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RELIEF NEAR TRAPPED :
ARMY, SAYS LONDON
Turkish Forces Fall Back Aftef
Defeat at Hands of
British.
y
CONSTANTlNOPLE ADMITS
RETREAT IN CAUCASUS
Vienna Declares Italians Have
Decided to Abandon Bal
kan Campaign.
BA the Associated Press.


Sayville) = The Overseas News
Agency announced today that Count
Tisza, the Hungarian premier, has
announced in the Hungarian parlia-.
ment that Montenegro had asked for
peace.
Montenegro offered unconditionally
to lay down her arms. and the offer
had been accepted, the premier de-
clared according to the news agency
report
Icy the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. II (3:23 p. rn).-An-
nouncement was made i'm the Houss
of Commons today that tho Turkish
forces in Mesopotamia have fallen
back to within six miles of Kut-el-
Amara.
The announcement was made by =
Austen Chamberlain, secretary
India. who said the Turks had =.
treated as the result of another Brits
ish victory The Turkish positions al
Waddi he said. were carried on Sat<
urday by the British.
"The recent operations in Mesopo-
tamia, including the advance to
Ctesiphon, were considered and ap-
proved by the war council" said MR.
Chamberlain. 1T would not be in
the public interest that l should make
any statement on the scope of the
operations now i'm progress. Infor-
nation of that kind in the present
circumstances would be far more val
! aable TO the enemy than II he house,
Pressing Back Turks,
I ION the 18th instant VI announced
I To the house that the enemy had re-
| tired to Igssian, a position six mics
east of Kut-el- Amara. He, however,
apparently advanced again on tho
| 18th to what is called in the telegram
| the Waddi position. Since then we
have received kilograms from Gem
eral Townshend up to the morning OF
the 18th, and from these kilograms 1t
appears that General Aylmer was
! pressing back two divisions on the
left bank at and about the Waddf
/ position. There was continuous fight<
/ ing on the 18th in the neighborhood,
/ and on the morning of the 18th Gen~
eral Aylmer reported that the enemy
were again retiring, and that he him.
self was moving his headquarters and
/ his water transport to the mouths of
| the Waddi. on the 18th General
| Aylmer reported that the whole OF
|
| tured and the enemy rearguard had
| taken up n position at Essian.
! General Aylmer reports that the
| operations were seriously hampered
/ throughout by weather, and l ana
sorry to say that the weather is re-
ported to be bad. All the wounded
have been sent down the river"
This is the second defeat for the
, Turks in Mesopotamia in the last few
days. as given in the British official
report 1t was announced in London
Yesterday that the Turks had been
beaten at Orah on the Tigris, twenty
five miles below Kut-El-Amara and
We're in retreat.
The attack is being made by the
( army Of General Aylmer which is adj
! Vancing in an attempt to form a junc~
tion with the original British expedi-
tion under General Townsend which
is now at Kut- -l9l-Amara. This army
retired to that point on December s.
having been defeated i'm an advance
on Bagdad after getting within less
than twenty miles of the city. It lS
now surrounded and hard pressed by
the Turks.