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Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 10287, 8 January 1917, Page 1

News m Brief. At Budapest t&e general belief- m that Count Tisza's fall was inevitable. A Berlin report says: A submarin* has returned .to port after sinking- 11 ships in 11 days. The Russian forces are defending the lino of the Sereth, to which they .have,v ( fallen back. + v Al i> ? nem y raiding party entered the British lines .southwards of Loo* and were driven out. At London the Government has commandeered the Hotel Cecil for the use of the Air Ministry. German submarines are blockading the Spanish port of Bilboa, and have sunk three Spanish vessels. The Broad guage railway ircm the Canal has readied ELarish. The last 15 miles were constructed in v fifteen : days. Adler, the murderer of Baron Stuergkh hanged himself in his coll, « but he was out down before life waii extinct. Under the scheme for the exchange* of - elderly ciiliam prisoners 700 Britishers will be exchanged for over 6,----000 Germans. The Morning Post's Athens corres- . pondent says that judging from the tone of the local press Greece will shortly declare war. A Russian reconnoitring par+'onorthward of Zolotvin repulsed £ strong enemy attacks on the'Tieigl southward! of Chebonicaa River. The monk, Grigory Rasputin, ;w conveyed to Prince Youseoupof' house' and condemned to death.' ; .. was given a revolver to shoot hi self. The American Secretary of t Navy has announced that Brit> - firms have accepted contracts for t supply of naval gun shellsi to Ame o&« / ..■'....'■ The serious illness of Lord C'ron has delayed completion of the Dj daneiles Commission's report on i initiation of the expedition. • ' There is practically a new politi- \ft/ crisis in Austria owing to,the" G< , ernment's refusal to fulfil the h J Emperor's promise to on'vo Rule to Galieia. V The new Emperor of Austria is takino- stern ' measures against his predecessor's advisers, who embroiled the country with Germany's ai> fairs.