The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-01-28
MANY BRITISH
SOLDIERS ARE
REPORTED DEAD
ENGLISH HAVE BEEN DRIVEN
FROM SUEZ CANAL BY THE
ARABS WITH UNUSUALLY
HEAVY LOSSES.

BERLIN tby wireless to Sayville),
Jan. 25.-The Cologne Volks Zeitung
publishes dispatch from Cairo stat
ing that the British in southern Arabia
are in dangerous position as a result
OF fierce attacks by Arabsand Turks.
Ii is stated the British casualties up
to December 30, amounted to $4,000
killed and 10000 wounded.
he number Of British troops at
Alden is given as 10000.
Quoting from the Volks Zeitung
tie Over Seas news agency says:
"a wounded British major declared
that at the beginning of the war the
British were in possession of 250.00
square kil0mCters in southern anG
southwestern II Arabia. all of which
have been lost. Al the Arab chiefs
jcined th2 Turks, ana now are using
successfully against the British the
"lms Supplied by them"
Alden is the southwestern Arabia
rccr he entrance to ;hc Red sea it
has been strongly fortified by the
British and is referred to as to the Gil
braltar of the east. Several times
since the beginning of the war Turk
ish forces have threatened the city,
but there have been no previous re-
potts of heavy fighting and London
has prOfessed confidence in the abil-
ity of the British troops to repel all
attacks.
An official Turkish statement last
month said that after successful
fighting Tm kish troops were advanc-
ing on Alden, but it was announced
officially in Alden that the police had
amounted to nothing more than
sl:irmishcG and that there had been
no material change sfor two months.
British possession OF territory pro-
treiing the Sucz can1l route at its
southern end is impcrilled by at
tGck8 made by large bodies Of Arabs
AID Turks on the British forces in
southwestern Arabia, according to
adVices from German sources. The
British have been driven from all
the territory they he'd in that sec
ton Of country and have suffered
extremely heavy losses in the fight
ing, the reports declare, the figures
being given at IS 600 killed and 90
000 wounded.
The implication from the Berlin
dispatch carrying these reports is
that the British army of 10000 men
is virtually cooped up in Alden near
the entrance to the Red sea, which
must be held if the southerly APP
proach to the Suez canal is to be
protected.
A situation quite similar to this
was reported through German agen-
cies several weeks ago, but London
then announced Officially that no
apprchenSions were entertained of
the outcome of the operations which
had been merely in the nature Of
skirmisheS.
The Austrians, having gained pos
session of nearly all of Montenegro,
whose remaining defenders, accord
ing to Vienna, are fast laying down
their arms, are pushing southwark
III AlDGUld. Apparently Lucy are
moving deliberately, although with
cut encountering much resistance.
The road down the Adriatic sea
coast leads them to Durazzo, but ad-
vices from Albania indicate that
their progress is likely to be slow
owing to the condition of the roads.
At last accounts the Bulgarian
forces co operating with the Aus
trians had encountered the Albanian
troops under Essad Pasha and ac-
cording to unofficial advices, had
met with a defeat at the latter's
hands.
The great trade union congress at
Bristol, England, today passed, by an
Overwhelming vote, a resolution de
claring against the adoption of con
scription in any form, as against
the spirit of British democracy" and
as endangering the peoples liber
ties.