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Washington telegram dated January Mr E. W. Adams MS Hodge A. E. Hodgins telegram has been received from Eye-thay-the Danish West Indies, Mr GB Anderson Mrs.

Leonsisting of the islands of St. Thomas M Rodney Ander-Me aL witness" in Mesopotamia :--

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*Tollands Tigris Front December 8-The Turks St John, and St. Croix, parsed to the Med. E Atherley Mr. and ourselves now hold positions alteressions of the United States of Mr R L. Atkinson Mr Shelta Hooper. rately a different points on the Tigris Amerion, at our to-day. On December Mr H. Murray Bain Mr S. L. Hon hin

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the mouth of the Shatt-al-tal. We are sale of the danis, provided for in a in touch with our communications, but bil! approved by the parliament. The Dr and Mrs Baker Mr and Mrs. He

Barker Capt. Hussey 'the Turks are dependent for supplies and re-inforcement on boat transpurt ratification of the treaty entered into was Mr. Barnu Hykes & childran crossing the river by night. We Lave dispatched to the United States on the Mr R. M. Bartlett Mr Mrs Thonnikoff trenches on the right bank immediately el Day which left open. Mr and Mrs

the S.E. extremity of the Suthagen January 11. opposite pericsula The ty

tying corps have been putting in good work. On the fist night machines

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The island of St. Thomas," says the Mrs E Manila Cablenews," is known, a ther Gibraltar of America "as modern gins Mr Turkish supply centre twenty wouki dafend the aes for a distance of miles apstraam of Kat. All the machines

carried

lah

ous a bombing raid at Baghel

returned andamaged after dropping

miles,

Howell

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Mrs Jonser child Mrs M. Y Belllion

R. Belilios

Bellamy

Bir F. M. Josoph MEF-H. Kales Mr N. B. Karanjia Mrs. Mr M.; Katz

Mr A. M. Keith Mr C. King

Birbeck

Bissekor

Bitting

Mr and Mrs G. H

Kine

DrA.T. Knoderer

Mr and Mrs A. F,

Kuehn

three-quarters of a ton of bembe an St. Thotpan is 1,4-10 miles south of New shipping and dumps."

s."Un the noth An kork. It is virtually in a direct line be. Mr A. Blackburn aviator, Lieutenans Morton, engaged twan European ports and the Panama Dr. M. Blain bostile albatross over Kut, killed the Canal. With the return of peace in Capt. B. Branch observer, wounded the pilot and brought, the machine down with a crash to carth Europe this island, with its aver climate fr R. A. Brand During the fight he descended to within the temperature ranges from sixty Mr S.G.

thousand feet of the Turkish degrees to ninety-two degrees F.-will two treaches at which height his angite oventually become was badly holed by rife fre

Brink.

great business Mr D. E. Cappleman

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As conditions now are, Se. Themas Mr W. E. Clarke Cross by General Maude this morning dependent on the business of the harbour 3ft and Mrs M.

irre Cobby Mrs the 24th Captain Herring decorated with the D.5.0. for a daring and shipping for support. The Europeaz.

Collins fight or the night of the 18th Captaic war has aliet iztirely destroyed the Blorging discovered & Turkish gunbat besiness of this part by causing in en towing a pontoon bridge upstream plese suspension of regular calls by at

fe CL Courtney Mr.R. K. Mehta sections from Shamran. Ha bombed her

Mr J. .D. Courtney Mr G. Mellis least one ship Company, namely, the from a very low altitude, caused her to

Mr F. W.

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Mr W. B. Davenport Mr G.

1. Miskin scattered the pontoons. He then re turned a second time to the camp for our was the chief source when the

Tavis

Birs 0. A. Morse and Sombs and repeated the performance labour of the island naturally received Capt. J. Dewar 2 children The three journeys kept him in the air employment, and now that this principal Mr and Mrs W. E. Mr A. S. Murch from midnight to siz iro

Douglas

Mr-E Newhouse avenue of exployment is almost closed

Mr W.A. Dowley here, the future does not appear pro-Mr D. P. Drakeford mising.

Yesterday our seroplanes bombed

infantry columa marching to wards Benhailal. Throughout the recent fighting the aeroplanes co-operation has rendered invaluable assistance to the cavalry, On the 20th, & column of cavalry madeations ten miles upstr

stroke against the river communications of Kut

were encounte No

A

but Turkish dents wore engage

and fourteen

the

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ring, of a sort of which this war gires

CO

Miss M. E. Daffy

Mr and Mrs E. T.

Earle

Mr and Mrs A. W.

Eastman

and child

Mr J. S. Nicolson Mr and Mrs Norman

Mr & Mrs Ubaldia

and children

Mr E Mrs A. Ohts Mr H. H. Pegz" Mr W. J. Pringle

Quick

Miss F. Reay

Mr

Mr

and Mrs C.E. W. Ricca

Mr R Rouse Baart de ler and Mrs F E.

Schneider

L. Schweitzer

A pretty little contest, in outmancur. Mr & Mrs H. Edsell Mr-EY

Mr J. E. Edwards report thaters taken. Frisoners few examples, has been taking place in

East Africs between Geners Vandeven Mr P. G. Elliott Turks suffered heavily from our bombardment of Sanna-i-yah ter and a German named Colonel Wahle, Miss C Ellis

3f who seems

ems worthy of the South African's

"Watts Mr D. Ritcher also

that their fuel supply is scanty as

A the

writer in home paper to which it has been gather steel says a area. in

the Mail. hand by

When

Vandeventer is becoming, exhausted.

On the 24th our cavalry raided a reached the Central Railway which strong bold named Gussabs Fort, situat straddles the German colons from the ed in the country east of the Hai river, see to Lake Tanganyika, the main German

coraidersale body of German troops e Dening

south-east of the colony. But a defending the important centre of Tabera, far inland on the rail. I. Gibb way, was left behind. Pushed out of Dr Glaister

Gordon of Belgian Forces Mr A. G.

MrV. from the west,

Goulbourn

and

Mr J. H. Soot

V. A. Fairley Mr W. H.

Wordan Me

Mr

Scott

force retreated into the swampy_inn 31 OCULI, Jr.Dr J. C. Shively

the

which

and been

Simpting

Freer "Mr H. B. Deniman Fuller Mr & Mrs B. Skott

Mrs M. Slado MA Square Miss

Mr J. W. Stackhouse MrJames A

Theons

Mr F. G Thompson Capt

Trowbridge

some twelve miles outside our lines.

Christmas was observed in fine spent last night in

ght in our new position on

On the Hai. The troops had plùm padding an issue of ram, and were singing late into the night. It the officers' mess Lord Curzon's health was drunk, in his seasca Tabora by the advance ofble who TP. J. Ora Consignees are reminded of the necessity to apply to the Company's Agents able gift of champagne. The local tera regarding arrival of consignments expected of which they have received documents in

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Hannibal General Northey's foformed s

Mrs H. A. Wahrer of From the sou

south-west enous barrier to Wale the

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con-

Mra

L.Mr KP

Mr M. H. BI

Mr C. Wallace

Mr G. F Harrison Mr F. A, Walls feint

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Mr and Mrs H. R. westest,

Hayward

"M. Marcel Hutin, in the Eche la trong fell on one Harvey- '..

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The enemy liberally exaggerates in success seems

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Mr and Mrs H. Mr C. A. Henderson Werner Mr A. Hide

MEJ. T. Warrenz Mr T. F. Wong Mr. G. G. Wood

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the matter of the number of prisoners, too confident, for instead of taking

course.

south-eastward, but we believe we are right in stating straight

a fanking force to try that in the course of the past week the detached a Romanians leave lost a maximum of prise

is Northey, and himself endeatcored 38,000 men.

to overpower & few more posts on This WAY

Oce his

of them put up a capital fight and

delayed of column

for four and actually days.

Hra Martin & children time Bri By that arrived trounced. Even so, he managed, ster

and Wahle was heavily Mr and Mrs H. F. Mr and Mrs. B.

Carmichael •Partington

20,000 at the battle of Tirgu-Jiul;.

and 10,000 of the troops at Orsova ;

8,000 of those north-west of Bakarest.

according to reliable rep

But

the Rumanian army numbers 600, beary losses, to get a portion of his force

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