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THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE.
{DY TAG TIMES" CORRESPONDENT]
GERMAN LOSSES.
TOTAL OF 3,450.000
THE COMING SEA FIGHT.
GERMANY'S FINAL EFFORT.
Mr. James Dunn, special correspondent of the Daily Meal in Holland, writes:
Germany's canal-bound fleet is preparing
to
move
NIGHT ON THE SEASHORE
AN ANXIOUS VIGIL
[LY, A COAST: WATCHER:Ĵ
In the current issue of Land and Water, Mr. Hiniro Bellae continues and com-
It is night, moonless and full of errors pletes his examination of Germany's losses
to the timid-night, with its dangers and in the present war. In a previous article
possibilities of surprise, its demands on The winter campaign of the Russians in he adduced figures which led bim to the
For many works I have been receiving intelligence, and truncity to duty, its like Armenia is recognized by all the world to conclusion that the number of German dead information and now I am able to state lihood of shocks and surprises. Adjacent objects asuine fantastic and sometimes Ip to Dec. 31 Inst, could not be less than that the vaunted High Ben Fleer is tapinions shapes, almost any one of which be one of alopighing brilliancy.
make an attempt to justify its proud title.
ships honourable to the Russian Command, which 1,000,000. He now proceeds to enloutate. I learn that the fainous tonst of The Day, may be a spy at work. In the offing has known how to prepare the blow with the other permanent losses, comprising of which we have heard little during this to and fro, peaceful iratops with their regation lights burning, black admirable foresight, and it is glorious to prisoners, the disabled wounded, and the war being drunk with an enthusias patrol vessels nad torpedo-beats with
that heralds imminent action,YE lights.out." STATE' the troops, who have shown once more that dimbled sick;
The question will at once be asked Why Briefly, Mr. Belloc arrives at the folow should the German Flect accept bat: they are unsurpassed in winter caming figures for the various entegories :
after fusing to fight for nineteen months? paigning. Whatever may be the ultimate
3,000,000 What has happened in the meantime to result of the war in this theatre, nothing Prisoners....
250,000 give for admirals greater confidence and to can deprive the Russian Army of the im- Permanently disabled-wounded 1.600,000 endoy her ships with greater power? What 600,000 miracles of organisation, what triumphs of perishable renown which it has won in
intention have occurred to send the Ger-corridors of time." crossing inhospitable mountains over snow.
man High Sea Fleet to do battle with and ico, and in asulting with success.
the mightiest Navy of all time? aj dr and practically without a sing, train, the
The answer to these question is as simple as a sun in subtruction," strongest fortress in Asia Minar,
Dead
Permanently disabled-sick
And from Land's End to John o' Greas's, on teadland, Martello and church towers, on miles of dreary "saltings," nusa and yo, silent watchers are peering up at the dark welkin looking for those fat mag- gats of the sky on which Count Zeppelin has elected to send his name
down the Those, he is careful to emphasise, are
Nothing could be minimum figures. To say that for overy
more Lonely except the night time watoh- two men dead in a prolonged war you have
ing from bridge or vessel's head, for enemy craft; the immediate intimation of which barely three men maimed is obviously to put the maimed for too low. To any that
May ho the roar of a gun or a torpedo for every three men disabled by wounds
that sends the watchers' vessel gurgling to After their initial sucCOSSES
on the
The German Navy is going to fight be the bottom with no more time than to utter, you have little more than one man disabled Caucasus front last year the Russians by sickness is to put the disabled from sick-.esuse it was built to fight,
scrap of prayer and take a diye." settled down, coolly to a defensive cannes for too low. But I am admittedly
Inland, from 10 to more miles, as far as Acting on the theory that if she loses inland goes, except where munitions are paign, having neither the men, the can patring things at their very minimun, nor the inclination to carry on an offensive am putting them ng they would be put man tatesmen natura ly take the view that where the Zeppelins have dropped their
the war Germany will lose bor fleet, Ger.
being
made and in towns and villages operation. They hided their time, but by an enemy who should have to convinça utilizes a period of comparative inactivity as well as he could some neutral statesman if the fleet is to be lost its destruction must bombs, there is but sennt sense that we are infruitful manner, The Black Sen that his losses were of the very lowest sort 51st cost the enemy enormous sacrifice. in the midst of a world war in comparison No German ship shall surrender" is the with the same feeling on the coasts, espos Fleet ravaged the Anatolian coast, destroy-
What have we to add for the wounded ed counties Turkish ships, and restricted and sick that will ultimately return, but unwritten order of the higher command. cinly south and ongt. Here we know it their enemy to the long, difficult, and are still in hospital or in convalescence? But the Germans will not sacrifice their as much as the terrible truth can be known largely railless lines of communication by
There again, we have the analogy of the prized feet merely for the sake of nationalshors of the setual horrors of battle. Anel land. Thus the Turkish ports on the Black
Allied statistics to guide us. The average sentiment; they will not send their ships when the curtain of night has come down, and all lights are darkened, that inteli Sen becsns practically useless to theriod in hospital and convalewonce is four to destruction in the North Sea merely to
sayo themselves the humiliation of seeing gence becomes intensified to a high pitch. enemy, who could not use Trebizond in months. The admissions to hospital per the manner that be used it in 1878. The month, counting those only who will them towed out of the Kiel Canal. That Then it is that the trusted walchunan goes
to his lonely post but not only to keep ogablishment of the mastery of the Black ultimately emerge cured, and counting is not the German way. The German Sen by the Russians was one of the chief sick and wounded together, cannot possibly Naval Staff are about to challenge Bri. look-out for Zeppelins. There are the in- eanses of this later triumpb..
the pence-time for an army of the German mumbers, hetain's naval supremacy, because they think shore waters to watch, ag
but with what a Jess than 100,000. We have therefore in they can deal that supremacy a severe it coastguards watched; add to our total afloating balance of not a deadly blow, True, the increasing difference with what an 100.000, and we bring to the end of the effect of the blockade the interna: unrest anxiety what a keenness to les nothing year an irreducible minimus off the and the military menace of the Allies have pass undetected. And if his station he a
the breech of an aircraft gan, what of the strength of 3,250.000.**
undoubedy had an influenes on naval
posibility of getting a shot into the Zep policy. But these have not decided that pelin that comes droning through the dark- policy; they have only stimulated it. nesa overhead t
TURKISH FORCES IN ARMENIA.
mi- a
THE NEW SUBMARINES. There is not à German in Germany who does not believe that, behind the guards of Wilhelmshaven terrib'o weapons are being forgel in secret for use against England.
Many people in England are apt to smije
Jetl
increase
of
-What can it be? What wou'd inaką for
It is always futile to apply to a Turkish aring the semdards and the estimates that we admit for the armies of European States. We carmot take into account the
There are several methods, the writer Arab Armenians, and Greeks who figure points out, by which this result can in in the population. Much of European Turkey has been lost in recent wars, insad checked. We have w knowledge con.. veyed by the Intelligence Departments that
ON THE EARTH WALL, ing Albania which provided the Sultans the Germans created no new formations
But the ost unenviod of all watehors with such good material for soldiers, Turafier last February that their losses up
if an adventurous spirit can avoid en- kib adıministration is always bad, and we to that moment had on the average been can usually be confident that execrable at the rate of close on a quarter of
vying anyone in the almost endless cordon is he who keeps his lonesome vigil on the ronds and an inot utilization of resources lion a month, and that their drafts since will injure Turkish armies wore that moment had been on an average about
From this superstitionist faith in the an earthwall of the salt sea anrahas. There lost battle. Finally, the atrocilie, pre-i $60,000 month. From this external check known, from the yeneration of the German be trudges from post to post, night glasses in hand, when it is blow ligh, blow low, petrated upon the Armenian population ne arrives at lassita a great deal above a war chine come those fantastic tales of deprived the Turkish couruand of a source millions. We have another exceedingly weird and wonderful invention, which find rain or a clear sky, or, worst of all, a fog that keeps him ou tenterhooks all the time which was invaluoh'e for supply, and the valvable check in the fact that the total their way into neutral papers. I do not
and out of which the query in sono form memes for heen outrages has eine in the
abunt off the strength of a fares at any believe and I have some ground for my ront 26 Erarum,
ment is netually greater than thescepticisinin 17in, guns and Husinkableler may emerge at any moment with The ground- saddentes and calamity. According to the information at our disualty lists up to that moment, brosuse battleships I do not believe the stories swel of high tide surges on the stones at poral--and the best is bad-e turkey sickness and other causes more than make of extraordinary discoveries in magnetic the foot of the wall, regeles and comes have raised a million men during the war.un for the return of wounded. Every cWN- power applied to mines and torpedoes. I
again; bringing out of the wet tuist and and my theat soat 230,000 must be deducted forporary army of the Allie to-day and do not believe in the invention of in darkness, where ea and shy appear to be fur casualties, fieaving probably not more every any of the pay confirms this pregabe floating forts; but I do firmly bugh mass uf something to which the night
700,000 rebutaing. At the time of truly
A and sincerely believe that the German
and overlegerness lend a mess suspicious org cvnetjun of the Ga Jepot Ponienta Again, auch of the German Class 16. Marine Stoff have since the war bien pers. shape, as the watcher cranes his head there were probably 250,600 men of the 1 which per unity Toustours have feeting and enlarg ng the ergins, of de } forward, with glasses fiveked at the ab- Zat, and bin Tarkish Armies between Ad-on admitted, is, and he be for hunt on ready to their linnus rianople. Contaalinople, the Deadanel inst
of ne, in the fighting line. Only a fth and flove were sim 10.00 on or so polis in the deba
Lastly. the Caucasus front, 30,000 ja Meso-er is the rough dia but a ver many's attack of submarinis."sues a laudding at such an hour, in such ofciretuistarosty What: but bag, cosa in Byrin including healsely sound run of chars The Remarking that so far dengang's mis
Live Sibanding Tullare they are juglued to pooh-ooh any Surfer GT enterprise in under-seatein, and searches the narroW
There are on Still he is undecided. craft nt. th. Germans have learned a les beyond, and a right and soft fepore son in defeat, and, despite many sinkings and rappings, they have not lost confidenes Shall sound hi, slarm, or run to the
the approaches with a owness that the subruarine. The supersubmarine isephine? Again be exasaines the thing the weapon with which Germany hopes tpainful in hi, slow because it has no strike effectively at our weertes Navy.
motive power except that of the tide. And Germany now possesses submarines of a
still be waits, fearful of making a power and displacement undrenmi of at the
blunder →→→ waice, and is still uncertain outbreak of war. It is claimed for these what to do. Then comes a glimmering of monster craft that they can voyage as for the facts, & few thingles more and the whole a, India, independent of any aid from truth is known to him. A little longer, friendly store-slip or secret depot, My and orash against the stones oomeg a con information about these submarines canno, fused jumble of wreckage and bo dsregarded as idlo gossip. In their building, men have been kept at work in gangs night and day for months. Payment by the hour has been suspended, economie propaganda of all kinds has been prohibited, and the best German inventive and con
tractive minds have been ensployed on the perecting of a huge flots la of submarinese Fortunately the Germany Marine Staff is faced with a serious handicap. They have the iron, the steel the workshops, and the skiled workmen to build the submarines, but they have not sufficient sailors to muni thes
legal warge of an ary long dn the fern warfare is practically proved a the rang
ift The Watele, arke himself in the tenso
Freddy red in garrisons and alwap mod for he view of the gitancian a ways more than four timu ile dead.” in. The Baltadi, had the continuing nond
Mr. Bellos adds that when the history of nudefend in mahal awajn a ano hay estark for worse, it be possible that not no way can be written fih ali domac than 130000 m were so fren by our available, no reloj student of the sitan- vacuation of Gallipall for service in ton will be surprised if the tatar Amenia. We do not yet know what reinan losses of every kind up to the end of
1915 move clase on ion millions forcements have been sent. The Turks do no shift their armies, readily, and their poor communications do not allow the shuttle and leam play dear to Geria strategists-
MARCH TOWARDS BAGHDAD,
To carry these men to Erzerum long marches an necessary. Assuming that the The following is an extract freun an -raitways in Asia Minor remain as they article in the Russkor Sford of February were at the outbreak of war, the journey 20. As the Russiaus anoopinged" recently, ria Augers and Sivas to Ergoruin entai General Barakoff's force has reached at transport of 360 miles by rail und 340 by Kerind, 55 miles beyond Kermanshah, or march rou
The shortest marching dis 160 miles from Baghdad by the usual cara- tance is by the route Adam. Rael-Ain, van route comm and Diarka, in which the road augsWith the capture of Kermanshat our only found 356 sailee, but the railway portion troops under General Baratoff are at the 101s rues 1,000 miles in length. It gates of Mesopotamia. For the first time is n far ry, no matter which route is:
the possibility of a combined action on the lected, and winter marching in Anatolia part of our troops and General Lake's is no chids play, while the railways have Aug.o-Indian Bruy assumes a definite a poor capae fy for traffic compared with shape. General Aylmer: who was anrching European lines, and are probably short of on Kut-el-Amara in order 'relieve Gene- coal..
ral Townshend, is now himself in a diff culty on the Tigris and needs relief in his turn. With the approach of our troops to the borders of Mesopotamia, the Turks nust feel a growing uneasiness for their rear, and therefore we need not be alarmed
The 3rd Army in Turkih Armenis is sup. posed still to inside the 9th, 10th and in army Corps, which were so badly sau d the ozrler fighting on this front. These Corps were afterwards reinforced and are
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to the fate of the English troops. We shall be glad beyond measure when our Cosenck, join hunds with the Sepoys.
7
THE LACK OF CREWS.'
The German loss in submarines during the last few months has been greater than the German Admiralty cares to confces.
They do not so much wind the loss of the U-boats as the loss of their trained crews, With their system of short service the Ger men cannot turn out sailors of first class quality, and if this is seen in manning bath.sh.p and cruiser crews it is more
waters
Some vessel Jus boon mined or torpedoed away off shore. The relieved watcher es- certains that no survivor is clinging to the telltale rolio, then goes to make his rO. port-Times,
NOT MAKING OUR FLESH CREKE.
This hint of fearfulness is hugged by Germany, who still possess a childlike faith in the dread potentialities of German in- ventive genius
Maximilian Harden shares with the cafs loafer a sublime belief in the readiness and ability of the German high command to save Germany from defent by the employ- ment of terrib e devices hitherto suppressed. If we are to be destroyed, then all Europe will fall with us, is familiar German. threat. Even the extreme Socialists wag their heads solemnly and deplore the necss- ity at setting brok elvilisation in order to preserve the Fatherland
This orgy of frightfulness mean, nothing more than the sain threats of a thwarted
the gentle German may be permitted to eniny bis daily thrill without making our fel creep, t
sil supported by numerous Kurdish and other levin. But they have been contiau busy in the field, they have lost severn of the towns, which were the depôts and heade quarters of the divisions, have not been well fed since the Armenians weje mas sacred, and have become shabby. Sipce troops, and it was indeed a varye of con-
ansport by sea had practica ly to bestaney and hardihol to have reversed: apparent in the men called to exercise zare abandoned, and drafts brought up by long he frozen mountains and to have. eut qutechnical knowledge and remarkable phynopo. Whatever the lung may do the warehe, over and, the boat, and equipe Turkish, fortress in the midst of a Tarsis cndurance in the cramped chambers Allies if necessary, can ga one better, and have
fut, and the moral of the kish Army. Turks has steadily gone down
of a submarine Newtheless, crews from The pursuit continues. The Ru tian fane way weakened by the dip fej, of right, alter a sucre fui hading of the coast towns and villages are beng (rain roopa to be Fersian and Irak finas,. The facceperly as Lhe end ni Alisa on Feaped ly and wilciently within the Brit
The German war machine.ANAS Patting as to samutional Press articles like to behold was a long we extend ng Latry day 17 bang 30 mila of: Trabzond from the Bibek Sex on on flan. ton de Turkish calfe is bear hunted best of Cleman naval activity have boon and id e café chatter, it is a fact that in on the ethe, axe usive of the cons income da kuzingan was the lus the fir daya seral cressions a quadry great desired the terrible sa fight reported by Dutch shermen during the last thy na înture our Navy will achieve its Persis and Moorsidiniu, aud the Fuck | Runion, bra na biush and fidlislerd em
ʼn history wil bring the end of the war in were 2 in a position to is the king Ligy warm for the herds out of German try seis esters, I by de treger hitt og ofsasive which the Grad Dub or Fals for ABS in Russian and cupanted by wp-layers has been sight Germany is preparing for a last launched at the under the abe direct to faith a 100 miles as the cow flies of these of the northern Dutch coast. Last seperate throw in which she will employ of General Yudete and his patch A appa Mosul rund, along which the Turksend our of my corrispondents say all her irgotices of lend, cea and air Zep. od Chief of Staff, General Bulkhot lines. no tongids ble opetaniin, end within its large force of marines virg Hamburg eins are being burn with foverish agreed, ailes of Real Ain, which who the ni head for Kiol. Many were old er oldish men, and pr vale firms are invited to manufac- -THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE.
of the Beghdad Lec-ezo aling the isolat he says and I was struck by their sadur various parts of the huze airships, In the middle of January the worst of B-gided sction the opening of the fact, and general air of depression. Germany's plan is to forestall the Allies Hamburg stakes its existence on the Ger; and to sinko before our men, guns and the munitions crisis in Russia was pasta lush is 500 miles us the crew flies
'from Kut-el-Amura, and it is suppo ed that our Sibetan and Yudénich's stroke nay at immediate vecay. Britain and this British Navy are
and though an Fcet,In this city of distress and munitions, have achieved a superiority that
at ensure victory other troops, becides ocal levies, had been affect our operations on the Tigris, is mut feared and hated with a fervour and in- drawn forward to help the Caucasian regiments, which had prev eusly borne the already prove an anxiety to those in control tern ty rot ser elsewhere in the country. brunt of the fray. It re fuposant to of the Turksh lines of comoriostion, for In Hamburg the gospel of frightfulness is BTAINABLE EVERYWHERE rike quckly if any striking a- all had the Euphrates route is zos, a all good. preached to eager listeners, and when Zep [to be done, since we evacuated the The Terek and Kuban Cossacks travel far Dardanels at the date wamed, and the and fast, and here is one of the few theatres elis successfully raid England there is SOLE AGEINTÉ ::
Bus iap Coming.nl could ca enlate with of the war where there is elbow-room, and joy in the homes and cafés of the ru next pat. Growing rumours of German naval fair precision how long it would take for where horsemen can still do greth e reivity compensate the Hamburg citizens MITSU-BUSSAN KAISHA..
We know neither the strength. nor the troops withdrawn from Gallipoli to reach Erzerum. There is ever reason to supnose plans of the Russian Commander, so it is for empty cupboards and meatless days, and that the low fl before any of these Turuseles to succulate uses coming events a'lare confident that the High Bea Feet is ICE HOUSE STREET. TEL. 230-155. gish reinforcements could bave arrived We shou'd like to believe that his move merely hiding its time to strike a fearful bus the decision to act at this moment an.mants in Armenia and ours in Mesopotamia and secret blow at the hated enemy in his tailed great hardships upon the Russia are closely co-ordinated.
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Desperate as the venture must be na- thing will be left to chance. Neutral fisher men are employed to supply information of the movements of British worships and ittle happens in the North Sea that is not made known to the German Marine Staff.
The fierce attack on Verdun is the pre- de to the last phase of the world-war land-red dawn is rising: who's armies will Fe destroyed. mighty ships will be derelict thousands of homes will be devastated in the awful tragedy of a great pat on tashing
to su cide,