ONLY ONE SOLDIER WOUNDED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16123, 11 January 1916, Page 7

ONLY ONE SOLDIER WOUNDED.

RUSSIAN STRENGTH IN BUKOVINA AN AVALANCHE OF SHELL. BRITISH BATTLESHIP SUNK. i The allies have abandoned their positions at the southwestern extremity of Gallipoli Peninsula, thus completing their withdrawal from the peninsula. The operation was conspicuously successful. Only one soldier was wounded, and 1? worn guns were left behind in a useless condition. Austrian reinforcements are being hurried to the Bukovina front, where the Russians, 800,000 strong, are pouring in such an avalanche of shells as they have never been able to do before. The Russians captured 1200 prisoners north=east of Czernowiu, the capital of Bukovina. It is reported that a large Bulgarian detachment has crossed the Greek frontier, and is pillaging the villages. The battle for Salonika is expected to begin within a fortnight. It is feared in Athens that Bulgarian outrages will inflame the army and draw Greece into the war. The allies have arrested the enemy consular agents on the island of Mitylene for espionage. The British pre-Dreadnought battleship King Edward * 11., of 16,350 tons, struck a mine, and, owing to a heavy sea, she had to be abandoned. There was no loss of life. The Goeben was engaged by Russian torpedo-boats in the Black Sea, and also by a battleship at long range, but used her superior speed to escape into the Bosphorus. There has been further fighting on Hartmannsweilerkopf, in the Vosges. The Germans claim to have recaptured all the trenches previously taken from tiem, with over 1000 prisoners.