The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-04-29
Starvation Believed Cause
Which Makes Gen. Town
shend Capitulate While Re-
lief Is Only 20 Miles Away.
SUPPLY SHIP GROUNDS
IN SIGHT OF CITY
Expedition Which Set Out in
November. 1914, at an End;
Battle Of Verdun Thought
to Be Terminated

London. April 20 Hi5 y. M -
Major General charles Townsheud.
,ommandcr ut the British forces bc-
sogod ~ Kut El Amara. Mesopotamia.
nY Turkish forces since las December.
has surrendered. This Information
was contained IN u British official
statement issued this Afternoon.
Tn. ufncial statement added that
General Tuwnshend destroyed all his
guns and munitions before surrender
ing.
The British force which surren-
dcrcd at Kut III Aamnra amounts to
about 10000 men.
Tn" following official announcement,
was made
After a rssistanc. protracted tor
li3 dave. ana conducted with a gal
iuntrN ana fortitudc that viii be for
ever memorable. General Townshcnd
has been compelled by tn. final cS-
hpustion ~ his supplies To- surrender.
'lioiure doing 80 he destroyed his
gums and munitions
tn, force under him consists %
-.'tO Irlti-h troops 81 all ranks and
.,r. iHc- ana som. y SuoU Indian troops
uud lheir followers
General TuNnrhend probably wIs
driven Co surrender to avoid starv@-
iIuu OF hi. forces. A recent official
Turkish ,umUuui'uiion sad that thH
position ut IN. British at kut RI Am,
utt Waa ,ritI,al. ana that they were
expecting 60 receive small supplies -
food hy t'tnpltu,. An ofhcial siate-
mcnt received yesterday from London
showed that q last effort - send sup
plies go th' garrison had failed II
was announced that "A shin laden with
supulics had uo"n sent up the Tigris,
amt that u had been grounded abou.
tour miles east of th, city
Less than a score of miles away. uu
the bank. ~ the Ttgris. below IA" city.
IN q r'uri army which tor months Ma
been attempting iu reach the besiegci
totgts 81 t,u'th Tuwnsheud OF lat,
| IN" Turks resistance mas inrr"as"i.
| and. aided uy tluudH. thrS hiN. been
| able tu hold the British IN check
| 80 ufn,ial figures hay, Teen gwen
| out as to IA" number Of troops which
set forth from IA, Persian pulf 300 Nu.
| Nemhsr of iHlt ON the expedition
which nov hhs ended !n surr"udcv,
! tuoft,iallg the number has been "sti-
mated as high ts 80 u0o. uui u was
| probably considerably smaller than
this. THIS fore, has -uff r"d heavy
| LOSSES IN severe battles Win the Turks.
| Tn. surrender of General Town
-hond ts one OF the f"w Instances n
the wlr IN Whi'h an 'nttr" u,ii uf in
purtnnt numbers has laid down their
arms n b. On. of the largest hudi"E
uf truups ut th. entente illl.H Viii. u
have surrendered ana ltrger thnu
an, other captured French ut British
force
Early IN December OF last year G"r-
rral ToWushcnd s army Nus beaten IN
! uattl. At Cfosiphun. eighteen miles bee
low Bagdad. and retreatod 10 kut ~
| Nmarl. Bc-loged oy large army
" Turks. the British defended them
selves So successfully that ne Turks
ltf length decided tu -tRrNr them out,
After u became evident that tho
army al ku, ~ Nmara would b" ur-
iHl, tu night ~ way out. rciirt eN-
lppditlun vas di-patC he'd As u drew
luear kut ~ hmara n was opposed hy
formidable bodies of Turks and ~
Iudyance was stopped The Turks.
taking the offensive, pushed back the
British aud inflicted heavy losses on
ihom
Throughout the Mesopotaminn cam
prtgn the fghting has been heavy and
the LOSSES severe. ON April lt % was
admitted the Tlgris army gp 20 thn'
tune Rad lost 100 men. In one en-
gagemont alone. ~ iieltsea, on n"
lurht bank OF the Tgris, few miles
below kut El Aamaru the british lost
/ 1 GOO according 10 IN announce eUl'n NJ
from the Turkish war office last wees.