The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-28
FOUR THOUSAND MosLEMs AND
VAST STORES TAKEN BY
SLAvS IN BATTLE.
DOMINION LINER SUNK
SERBIAN TOWNS OF MoNAsTIR
AND GiEvGEIi ATTACKED BY
FRENCH AERoPLANEs.
weatern Newspaper Union New. Service.


Berlin, Jan. 26.=The British force
going to the relief of the troops sur
rounded by Turks at Kut-ElAmara. at
tackled the Turkish positions near
Menlari, but were repulsed after an
engagement lasting six hours, accord
ing to an official report issued by the
Turkish headquarters staff. The Brit
ISL, the announcement says, left about
5000 dead on the field. With the an
nouncement of the British defeat
comes news of a Russian victory.
Four thousand Turks, including fifty
officers, were captured by the Rus
SLAMS in the recent battle in the neigh
borhood of ErZerum, according to
dispatch from Petrograd to Reuters
Telegram Company The Russians
are also said to have captured scores
of machine guns and enormous guam
titles of munitions.
A Liverpool message gives a report
that the dominion liner Norseman has
been sunk
The assertion is again made by the
Overseas News Agency that the Mon.
tenegrins have laid down their arms,
offering no resistance.
The Serbian towns of Monastir and
Gievgeli have again been attacked by
a squadron of French aeroplanes, six
teen in number. 1t is estimated 100
persons were killed or wounded at
Gievgeli.
Apart from the Ottoman losses in
actual battle, the Russians captured
during the pursuit fifty officers and
1000 men.
The city of Nancy was again bonn
barded by long-range German guns
and number of bombs were Dropped
from German aeroplanes. The dam
ages from the bombardment we're in
considerable and only two persons
were wounded, while the aeroplane at
tack is reported to have heen without
result.
London, Jan. 26.-England is in
panic. Fear of general air invasion
by the new and powerful aeroplanes
recently developed by the Germans is
sweeping over the island and making
itself felt in high official circles. Mon
day, German airships attacked Dover
in the third raid in three days. Soar
ing high above the range of the anti
aircraft guns defending the channel
port the Germans dropped bombs on
arsenals and barracks. The amount
of damage has not been given out by
the British war office. Two British
planes assembled to attack the invader
Waiting until the British craft were
in full flight the Germans fired cou-
pie of shells at them and speeued
away, easily outdistancing its pur-
suers.
On the heels of the air raid comes
the official admission that Austro-
Hungarian troops have occupied the
important town of Scutari in northern
Albania, according to Stefani News
Agency dispatch from Athens.
Petrograd.-Russian torpedo boats
have sunk thirty-three Turkish sailing
ships and destroyed seven of their
docks in a raid along the Anatolian
coast, the ministry of marines an
nounced.
London. Jan. 25.-An Amsterdam
dispatch says: According to Berlin
report the Turkish ministry of marine
is about to publish statement to the
effect that a Turkish submarine sank
the steamer Persia The Persia was
sunk off the island of Crete, Dec. 80,
with a loss of 119 passengers and
twenty-one members of the crew.
American Consul McNeely was among
those who perished. Germany and
Austria both have officially denied
that one of their submarines sank the