MESOPTAMIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9258, 27 January 1916, Page 6

MESOPTAMIA

il tfBHTIHB ON THE TIGRIS (j. |; ■" J ■ i jrURKS CLAIM REPULSE OF THE : BRITISH, ! | ‘ - _ ■ ■ U i| January 26, 8.15 p.m-) ri 11 -- AMSTERDAM, January'2s. H.ji Turkish communique states: —“A iil Sfc British • attack began thirty-five T iff’.of Kut Si Amara, on. both l{ I sjwiaß o£ fhe Tigris.* The battle lasted ;J I sjx hqurs. Our counterattacks drove id S back >h«.'enemy. some kilometres. Wo i** j! counted three thousand English dead while our losses * 1 /if small. We grantn Colonel Aylmer’s request! for an '1 1 1|‘ yrmistice ;for a day. Prisoners state j, LI that in previous battles at Sheikshaad ,J the British lost three thousand dead U f t-,.and wounded. We attacked another to column 'at Korna, compelling *l33TO>’ls'’F«lSreat, .leaving a hundred dead.'' 8 BLOCKADE ■ ; ITRINGENCY NEEDED FEELING’AROUSED IN jcAndinavia. , I—Prau Association—CoprHfM ad Sydney "Bun" Berrios* • LONDON, January- 25. . Garvin, editor of the .. in. an. article, . remarks ward Grey’s repudiation of that the Foreign- ' Office ally feeding the Gormans, public ’conviction. that y illation measures are pos-tiiP'Ai-whiEt' / on both sides of the agrees that. it. is now pracAJIo 4 W replace the illegal Ordersby a declared, arid regulansK' blockade. .’ ;, , . jther publicists point out that vio--sj%j!ri»pre and more depending upon wigulation of our onemieab by ■ the TnUvntpb—Prau AnoolftUttßrrOopl^ l ’ COPENHAGEN. January 25. rhav,legality of tho Orders-in-Coun-haa“ nqvor been. admitted, but the fc|Bfs ■ were accepted calmly beise of Great Britain’s war necessi»?—■'■'Jfbj.w understood that if the dfltiAßtoomenta fail there will be a sJT-3' reversal rof public opinion against •Jj England. Evil forebodings are oralr HHRISTIANIA, January 25. "ISsiS?. UjnifiOTi that in , indusHV., is bitterly anti-British. of. the .seas .is. thojught to • ' Ck' tbo' arbitrary, in view. of., the fact *’ jfWSbat' rio'gboda are in transit tq > Qbf*i S' I ‘‘jp'idl l yf'Tllo officers of ■ tho : Customs *j moat,watphful, and enforce J| i fine,-' and' ■ imprispmnen t . A] ' January - 25. •j hag already sufferthe dearth of raw materi--I*l i -Qitiius to-tho lack-of sulphate, ’«tem'o/-of »i.the paper mills are closing |*s j , M#9#if'> , 'r i, .The proposed tightening of S of ’ putting the nation on Mil r ?B ar d°d as impracticable 51 The figures show-, ill: of Swedish import* jijjj vjre*jsaffi{eratcd, and are due to the Iwi ■/ home. necessities from . the ||®| instead of from helliPRESS PRETENDS TO Jg :;; H scoff. Il *Ypm— M And Sydney "Bus" Senrloas London,. January 25. ,{i (tj* ,3(MMISCWrman press-is pretending to blockade. Thft-Abmich “Nouesto Nachrlehten” that' tightening, like the blookadeyiite 6^*^^-*s mere . humbpg. The Coiogne “Zoitung” says; • the English Yried to make us buy ar • tides which “ were riot necessities, ‘ with a view; to helping us to bankruptcy. "Now they are trying ,to ’starve us . altogether, which is plain ’ nttfl'S OF THE BLOCKADE - and- such like ii!. SEIZED. yw 'tty ’jftHVipti—Pr*«» Asaoolatlon—Copyrlcbl Tf: (ItSicived January 26, 8.15 p.m.) V|L , LONDON, January 25. *».■ cases labelled “hammers,” seized on the Swedish s*!! arna, bound from America were found to conhK “ ihiij;’ copper, brass' and ‘ aluminium filT piosta! parcels were seized (JufiSSPliL* Diitch steamer Geisha. .(Ayhey, contained four hundred revolvers, to Copenhagen and Amsterm -h|p ■Spanish firms. ■ 4 - SfMtIoirOFFIGrPOLICY OVER-SQUBAMISHNESS. Kaad Sydney "Sun" Seryloes id January 26/ 5.10 p.m.) LONDON, January . 26eadtey, speaking in London, the nation was dissatisfied roreige Office, which was not p the Navy. Apparently it ptmg to ’ interfere with and ~i| iesaqj()y*a(|a power. He cited the recent Jlf noulflal&tatistics in proof of orcr.squeamishness towards the Huns. SINfING OFJTHE PERSU "I! B, ,’,IP r /WASHINGTON, January 25. •>Mf ' The State Department, learning that **iJj Berlin and Vienna have denied that a i*S! Austrian submarine sank *Sfj thM**Fetsta, intend to ‘ ask Turkey if ijji she ’ m If Turlpy'admits her responsibility a ®Noto will bo sent to her.