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January 15 1916.
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KAFOLAMI
THE LISBON FIRE”“
THIRTY PERSONS INJURED.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
THE SINKING OF THE CLAN MACFARLANE.
(Reuter's Service To The “Talegraph. "3
CREW'S TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES.
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AUSTRIAN CRUISER SUNK.
ANOTHER REPORTED LOST.
Reported Capture of Cettinje.
A CREW'S TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES,
[Beuter's Service to The "Telegraph."}
THE FIGHTING IN THE BALKANS.
THE SAVING OF MONTENEGRO,
THE FIGHTING IN THE BALKANS.
REPORTED CAPTURE OF CETTINJE,
January 14, 3.40 p.m. ▲ Vienus communique reports that Cetinje has been captured
January 14, 7.25 pm. According to Reuter's correspondent at Bucharest it is reported that Turco-Bulgarian troops have been sent to the Italian, Mon- tenegrin and French fronts to replace Austrian and German troops that have been sent to Salonica and Bakovina
THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES.
ANOTHER REVOLTING INCIDENT.
January 14, 5.15 pm, Viscount Bryce has received a telegram indicating the final Filtsen destination of the manliest part of the Armenian nation. hundred Sassur Armenians, who were famine-stricken, surrendered to the authorities, whereupon the Governor of Mash ordered the men to be massacred and the women and children to-be drowned in the Euphrataz.
THE ALLIES IN THE WEST.
́ ́ARTILLERY ACTIVE.
January 14. 515 p.zo. According to Beuter's correspondent at Paris the communique contains nothing important except the dispersal by the French artillery of Germsu troops on Mesnil Hill.
A RE-VICTUALLING CONVOY DISPERSED.
January 15, 12.30 am..
January 15, 4.20 s-m. Heuter's correspondent at Bologna states that the first official reference to the recent events at Montenegro have been made in a speech by the member of the Italian Cabinet, Signor Barzilar. He said that to save Mount Lovtchen would have mean: saving Montenegro,
The enemy's trenches at Givenchy bave been heavily bombard- which was a huge tank requiring two to three hundred thousand troops and ka käärt six times greater than was necessary to convey the led, the parapets being considerably damaged. The artillery was skum forces on home territory. He mentioned that the over-rating active on both sides about Kemmel and Hill No. 60. A re-victual of the importance of Mount Lorichen was dus to foreign influences. ling convoy was dispersed east of Vailly and there was some Cattaro was a first class natural harbour, capable of accommodating successful mining south-east of Berry-au-Bac. Heavy artillery the whole of the Austrian foot, despite a possible mensoe from the destroyed a blockhouse in the Farges region. top of Mount Lovtchen.
Although the barracks at Cattaro were visible fram. Monnt Lorichen adequate guns could not be brought up the moantain awing to the fact that there were no roads,
Signor Barzilar concluded by saying that the inevitablosu sa of the Allie would nullify the recent bold strokes by Leir queries which had been accomplished in view of their need of hastening peace. Our enemies can no longer count on the inadequate co-ordination of the Allies material or moral efforta."
RUSSIAN PRISONERS TERRIBLE TALES,
January 15, 6.40 3.m.
A telegram from Bacharest states that Bassian prisoners, who wazs employed in road making in Serbia, have escaped. They relate horrible accounts of their sufferings at the hands of Ger-1 mass, whose treatment of Serbian girls and women has been too revolting to describe.
AUSTRIAN CONSUL ARRESTED.
January 15, 6.40 am, According to the Times correspondent at Athens the Austrian Comial at Corfu has been arrested."
THE ITALIANS.
ANOTHER ENEMY SHIP LOST.
January 5, 5.35 a.m. Beuter's correspondant at Rome gives detailed accounts of the ghting off Darsz on December 29, and confirms the loss, already ségdried from several sources, of another enemy ship besides the
Triglar
"ÁRTILLERY ACTIONS.
January 15, 6,40 m..
GREETINGS TO RUSSIA,
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MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S CONFIDENCE.
January 14, 7:25 pm: Renter's correspondent at Petrograd states that in a New Year message Mr. Lloyd George Beads Warmest Greetings to car valiant Allies" and adds that " the time is soo c ming when on both fronts we shall face the enemy ander cone ions of complete equality se regarde munitions and with the namerical advantage on our side."
MALAYAN AIR FLEET.
AN APPRECIATIVE COMMUNIQUE.
January 14, 10.50 p.m. Mr. Bonar Law, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has issued an appreciative communiqus with reference to the Aeroplane Fand raised in the Straits Settlements and the Malay States. The money, he said, for the first ten aeroplanes had already am headed over to the War Office and the machines would be named the Malaya, and numbered one to ten. The communique, after mention ing that Mr. Alma Biker, of Kints, the organiser of the fand, hari himself given one of the machines, emphasises that subscriptions had come from representatives of all the nationalites in the Feniu and that several of the seroplanes had been given by Chinssa.
KAISER'S SPEECH “UNSATISFYING.”
BERLIN PRESS OPINION.
January 14, 18.50 p.m.
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The Berliner Tageblatt is disappointed at the vagueness Ascording to Reater's correspondent in Rome a communique of the passage in the Speech, from the Throne with reference to
Electoral Reform, and desocibes the winole speech as unaskisfying
stillery sotions at various points.
Renter's corresponden i January 14, 11.25 pm. Lisbon says that the fire spread Beater's correspondent at Melts says that the experiences of to enormous proportions at night. the crew of the s. Clan Macfarlane, which was proceeding to Bam- The fire-ended today by the fall- bay, were terrible. The Clan Macfarlane left Malta on Decem-ing in of the walls. About thirty ber 28 and was torpedoed without warning on the 30th. In a heavy persons were injured. The War sex the crew, numbering seventy-four, took to the boats. The Minister has declared that he is submarine, which had hitherto not been seen, rose to the surface convinced that the fire was due and asked Captain Swanston the nationality and name of the to foul play.
She hastened the steamer, her tonnage, cargo and destination sinking of the steamer by gunfire and then disappesied. All the six boats were tied together and so they remained for three days battling with a mountainous ses on a ration of only half a biscuit On January 2, owing and half a dipper of water twice a day.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
to a very heavy eea, two of the boats parted from the others and were not seen again. The man werd at first cheerful, but the exposure and hardship told on the lascans. On the 4th. the Captain's boat, in which already two men had died, broke loose, and drifted away. The remaining boats,SERIOUS FIRE AT LISBON. half-filled with water and the occupants half dead from exposure and starvation, drifted helplessly for three more long days and aights, daring which the sex never abated. One after another eleven more lascars died and the survivors, nambering only twenty-four, were in a state of uter collapse when picked up on the 7th after eight days of meery and agony.
AUSTRIAN CRUISER SUNK.
FRENCH SUBMARINE EXPLOIT.
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January 15, 100 a.. A Paris communique states that the French sabmarine, Foa- canli, sank an Austrian oruiser, of the Novara type, în the neighbour- hood of Cattaro.
FOOD SCARCITY IN GERMANY.
SOCIALIST'S CRITICISMS IN THE REICHSTAG.
January 15, 7.25 p.m.- Renter's correspondent at Amsterdam states that the Socialist, Herr Simons, in the Reichsmag, attributed the shortage of foo istufis to wrong measures taken by the Government, and said that the diminution in the bread rations was a serious disappointment to the working classes, and the increase in the potato prices was s catastrophe.
TELEGRAMS.
THE NEW VICEROY.
PRAISES IN THE PRESS.
(Reuter's Service To The Telegraph?
Received, January 15.
EGRAMS
{Renter's Service To The Telegraph.")
saccessor's task hard even in the galetest times.
MILITARY STORE ABLAZE.
Received, January 15. Reuter's correspondent at Lis bon reports that a fire in a State military store has destoyed thou sands of uniforms and a large quantity of material for boot Up to the present three parsons are reported killed and many injured. It is believed that the fire is due to incendiarism.
FLOODS IN HOLLAND.
DISASTROUS EFFECT OF
TIDAL WAVE.
Received, Jaunang 16. Benter's correspondent, at Botterdam states that a tidal wave has partly wrecked the rail- way to Dordrecht, interrupting communication with south Bal land..
THE NEW VICEROY.
LORD CHELMSFORD APPOINTED.
The Standard, in reviewing the
Eeceived, Jammary 16, eituation in India, says that hap- It is officially announced that pily the general and fervent Lord Chelmsford has been spi loyalty of all classes accourages pointed Viceroy of India. the belief that no new and unfore Lord Chelmsford was born in Hou seen anxiety awaits the new 1868 and married the The Daily Graphic says that Viceroy, who has already won Frances Charlotte Guest, daughter in the self of Baron Wimborne, in 1894, share few Viceroys have better served distinction
Lord being two sons and four daughters England in India than Lord governing Dominions. Hardinge. Nothing has so endear Chimaford will be spared the by the anion, Lord Cuelnaford ed him to the people as the defence gave anxieties of several of his was a member of the London predecessors. The hostility of Sebel Bad and su Alderman. of the Indians in South Africa, which once seemed likely to PC Tark is only an external menace 19 he went out to Qressland Bermany and the German-ledor Luton County Council. In Toks a conflict, bat pablic opinion has since rallied to the view that the security of Ladis and it is a Governor of New South Wales. an honourable and adegaste place still a far cry from Kat-el-Amars must be found for Indian reland Kermanshah. There is no presentatives on the Councils of need to apprehend that Sir Percy the Empire. His leaving India Lake in Mesopotamis or the Russians in Persis will allow the now is indeed a triumph for Lord Hardinge which enemy to get nearer,
Bome consolation may be
for his and domestic losses. His successor, says the Journel, has wou distinction in New South FLOODS IN HOLLAND.
Wales. In Lord Chelmsford India will possess a Viceroy of sterling character, who has proved his capacity and is capable of earrying on the best traditions of British rule.
FURTHER DETAILS."
Later, The Daily News observes that. Considerable damage has been Lord Chelmsford has done good caused by the foods in Holland. work in Australia. He possesses The island of Marken and the many qualifications making for neightouring town of Monniken- succeed in a very difficult office,dam have been submerged. Zwolle bat his task is not an easy one has also been badly hit. Many Lord Hardinge has proved the cattle have been drowned, but greatest Viceroy of our time, and there is no low of life. The level very success must make his of the Zuyder Zse is at its highest,
ARBITRATION.
TREATY WITH CHINA.
Becskred, January 16, Beater's correspondent at the Hague states that the First Cham- ber has adopted an Arbitration Treaty with China,
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