, 1916-01-29

oium. THE e Thousand motor cars will be
employed. Quantities of floating mines will
be sent adrift in the Tigris and submarines
sent forward in parts will be assembled and
launched for the destruction of the British
transports and gunboats on the Tigris.
Paris, Jun. 24th.-Press dispatches from
Rome say that considerable anxiety is felt
ia Vienna in consequence of the illness of
Emperor Francis Joseph, whose chronic bron-
chitis has assumed an acute form. They
add that he is confined to bed, all Court re-
c%eptions aud audiences have beeA suspended
and that he is not even receiving the military
authorities. He is being nursed by the Arch
duchess Zita, wife of the heir to the throne,
according to the same dispatches.
Washington, Jan. 24th.-Unoficial des-
patches from abroad indicating that Turkey
might acknowledge that one of her subl.a-
rines sank the British liner "Persia'' pro-
misses to revive the diplomatic features of
the disaster.
LoAdon, Jan 24.-The Daily News CORES
poudent at Athens says it is rumoured that
the K"iser, accompanied by Won Mackensen,
has arrived at Gievgelli on the Greco-Bul2a-
rian frontier. The Austro-Germaus it is said,
have now nearly completed the necessary
arrangement for an attack on Salonica. An
army of 800, 900 is reported to be ready, sup
ported by heavy artillery, including three
16-ineh guns.
Copenhagen, Jan. 23rd-The "Berliner
Tageblatt" states that a conference of the
Foreign Ministers of all the Scandinavian
countries is to be held at Stockholm in Fe-
bruary in anticipation of the Inauguration of
more stringent blockade measures by the
Government of Great Britain.
London, Jan. 24th-The Military Service
Bill passed the third reading in the House
of Commons tom ght by a vote of 383 to So.
The Bill passed through the report stage in
the House of Commons tonight without
serious modification.
Berlin, Jan. Gath (via wireless to Saville)-
Scutari has been occupied by Austro- Hun
garian troops according to an announcement
issued to-day by the Austlo-H Hungarian
Headquarters. Several thousand Serbians
who formed the garrison, retired towards the
south without offering any resistance. The
text of the statement follows: ''Scutari has
been occupied by the Austro-H Hungarian
troops. Several thousand Serbisns, who
formed the garrison, retired towards the
south without resistance. Austro-H ungari-
ans also have occupied Niksio, Danilovgrad
and ~Podgoritza. The disarming of the coun-
try has been carried on up to he present
without friction. At several places the Mon
tenegrins have not even waited until the
Austro-H ungarians appeared but have laid
down their arms before the arrival of the
troops in order to return to their own homes.
At ether places a majority of those dis
armed prefer internment to being sent home.
The population generally has received our
troops in a friendly manner, and in some in
stances G~Ih ceremony. Riots such as oc-
Cured at Podgoritza ceased as soon as the
first Austro Hungarian detachment appeared.
italian theatre: Italian advances in the dis
trict of Lavarons and on the Rombon slopes
were repulsed.
London, Jan. 24th-The British forces at
Kut-el-Amara and the Russian troops west
of Hamadan are SO near that if there were
no difficulties in the way it might be posi-
BILE to effect a ~juncture within ten days. In
spite of the facts that there is much fighting
yet to be done and a difficult country to be
crossed the British Press already is begin
ming to speculate about the results of the
expected juncture. The Chronicle says: at
will be q happy day when the British aud
Russians begin to fight side by side
in this theatre of war, and it ought to con.
tribute TO a better understanding between
the two peoples. The "Times". however,
nofoc tbot tho Tnrks rod 70 hove ,4on