New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-01-25
BRITISH SHIPS
B0MBARDoSTEND
MILITARY OPERATIONS IN BEL
GUM AND FRANCE INDICATE
BIG BATTLE SOON.
TURKISH CRUISER SUNK
FORMER "BRESLAU" SENT DOWN
IN BATTLE AND "GOEBEN"
BEACHED AT DARDANELLES

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Paris.-Germany has massed more
than a quarter of a million fresh
troops in Belgium for an offensive, II
was stated here by competent mill
tary observers. An Amsterdam tele,
gram reports the presence of many
Austro-Hungarian soldiers in Belgium,
adding that the province of Limburg
is literally crowded with them.
LOndOn.-British casualties report.
ed in the week ending Jan. p were
17,043. divided as follows: Killed or
died of wounds: Officers, 76; men,
2,277. Wounded or missing: Officers,
213; men, 14,477. These figures rep
resent a decrease of nearly 5000 from
last week, when 24,979 casualties were
reported, an unusually high total for
this time of the year. Two weeks
ago the figures were 1898, and three
weeks ago 1881.
Berlin, Jan. 21.-Ostend, on the Bel
gian coast, has been bombarded by ma
val forces, it was announced in army
headquarters report.
One Turkish cruiser sunk and
beached and two British monitors
sunk in battle at entrance to Darda-
nelles.
British repulse German raid south
east of Graincourt and take prison
ers in own raid on Germans east of
Hargicourt. British bring down eight
enemy airplanes. Four British ma
chimes are missing.
French repulse raid near Louvre and
French patrols take prisoners north
of st. Mihiel. Six German airplanes
destroyed by the French and two
raids repulsed by them.
Artillery is active on both Italian
and western fronts at many points.
London, Jan. 21.-A general strike
is on throughout Austria, according to
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
1 ais, WliCH ltpOlto lOO,uuU Ilcu uult-
ting work in Vienna and Neustadt,
closing down all the war factories.
The strikers are described as openly
and the movement as
both political and economic, and espe-
cially aimed at securing peace. Pub
lie demonstrations, it is said, have
been held in many places at which hos
tility was voiced toward Berlin for try
ing to force the Austrians to continue
the war. -
London, Jan. liking Ferdinand of
whose arrest had been or
dered by the Bolshevik government, is
now under the protection of the Allies,
according to a Petrograd dispatch to
The Daily Express.
Amsterdam.-The Taglische Rund-
schau of Berlin learns from Munich
hat a new political party has been
there under the name of 1.-The
'ree committee" and that it has sent
4 telegram to the Reichstag saying:
Notwithstanding its Partially, Presi-
lent Wilson's recent message con-
aims a practical basis for the inaugur-
alton of negotiations toward a general
-
Misunderstanding to a telegram
'eceived in London, German Chancel-
Count o Hertling has again
postponed the speech which he was
have made in reply to the defini-
ion of war aims by President Wilson
Ind Premier Lloyd George.
Rome, Jan. 19.-The capture of thir-
cen officers, Ats men, eighteen ma
.hine guns and two bomb-throwers in
engagements east Of Caposile and
Monte SOlone. was reported by the
Italian wal office. The Germans made
wo raids on the Champagne front.
The raiding parties were repulsed, the
Paris war office announced. The Japs
re reported to have landed an army
It Vladivostok, but will not interfere
n Russian affairs.