MISCELLANEOUS

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 1, 3 January 1916, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOU^j^^^H . AMSTERDAM; DeZ^H A Turkish communique states:^! ''The battle of Kut-01-Amara ':<>u-: tinuos. We captured 450 tons of British-owned petroleum." LONDON,' Doc. 31 Swiss pton'os report that the Gormn, chemist? are feverishly working at the composition of new -diabolical gasc.s. Prince yon Bulow made overtures to representatives of the Allies at Borne* stating tho terms on which Germany would negotiate peace. The overtures were rejected. A Montenegrin communique says:--"Alter throe .days' fierce fighting, wherein several thousand, shells were fired by the forts at warships from Gnttaro, we compelled the Austrian*to retreat. Our troops arc pursuing." The Contra! News , publishes n report from Zurich that the..Emperor Franz Josefs physical and moral ;-tate painfully impressed tho Kaiser, who Ims sent a fsiniiMi.s physician to proscribe.