General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1915, Page 6

General News

v »'..../■ , ,:, (Received 9 a.m.) London, Jauuajgr.-';2U ; - Renter's representative fat- Cairo siates that * .Syria are pessimistic. Turkey is'refusing reinforcements of trained meirand is ordering an advance to be made all costs without delay, r ; (Received*'9 a.m.) Lisbon, January M. i Four thousand six hundred troops ' have been despatched to Angola. (Received 9 a.m.) Capetown, January 21.

:: ; lAs .the .result of recent operations the" Union forces held their line on the Orange lliver. The enemy are in fore© ''iir-Union territory, near-the German

border, where the enemy's advance was checked.' 1 '" ' v . ' Petrograd t January 21.

Qffie/ial.—Jßemnants of the Turkish rearguards are precipitately retreating. We have occupied Ardamitsch. (Received 1.15 p.m.) ' " Rome, January 2L ;The newspaper Stampa fchafc ajliritish cruiser removed Co)|sit |fari Keller, a German officer of higfy raftk; from the f liner Due Adasta, : m& {&!& him to Gibraltar. had been on a secret mission to IbcL,', States. ./ .m W[ '■ "' ' Petrograd, JanuaW 21v & A ; communique states that v w*the Russians taking the "enemy evacuated Skempe. The i eng|ly*s 'attack oti Kirlifyaba was repulsed, 150 prisoners being taken, , . . . "•.' -/' (Received 1.50 p.m.): I Jti l

London, January. .21. , •JM. the inquest at YarmoUtfif* a constable, in his evidence, stated that heMWWi aircraft at a distance W about 100 feet. He was sure it was an aeroplane, which appeared £sg fcitlqw 'the "direction of street lights. He took'it'lor a .British machine uutily.it dropped' a bomb. (Received 1.50 p.m.). ~ ... - t Amsterdam, Jaitu£ryi2l. Ap "official message from , Berlin 'announces that Von Jfalkenhayn has resigned the portfolio of War, and that ■ Ton Hohenborn has succeeded him. Copenhagen, Jamiary. 21.

An official telegram from Vienna states that a soldier from the northern front is suffering, from .-Asiatic