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Official Organ Ben Hiii County,
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Britisk Again Defeated
Turks Take Fortified Positions Outside
Kut el Amarah. Tren%Fj,g\pting
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In The Dardanélfes
Constantinople, Dee. 16—1 It was officially announced this morning
that the tortified positions of the British on the outskirts of Kut el
A.asrah were taken by storm by ‘the Turkish forces Morday. The
Turkish batteries also sunk:one of the Allies monitors, .. =
Kut el Amorah is on the Tigris river, mMe&ommEf and is the
point to which the British ‘fgll back when defeated by the Turks in
front of Bagdad. Another defeat bere may mean that the British ex
pedition is in a critical positi:on, or it may be only an exiggeration of
an outpost engagement, ; E o :
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Berlin, Dec. 16—Panic prevails in Salomki and the German and'
Austro-Hungarian colonies are preparing to leave the Greek port, ac-J!
cording to the Overseas News Agency, which add: Violenee 1s feared
from the Entente troops after the departure of the Greek detachments
and also the town’s eventual siege. The people also consider the atti
tade of the Serbian refugees suspicious. Freach soldiers miat.nied, re
fusing to work at the trenches. :
Saloniki, Dec. 16 Withdrawal of Greek troops in tke Saloniki
zone is well under way today. The civil administration of Saloniki
and the surrounding distriet has been taken over by the Allies, who
have replaced the Greek officials with military men.. While no Bul
garian troops have invaded Greece as yet, opinion is-divided asto
whether they wili yet do so. A french officer said today that he be
lieved the Bulgarians wou'd cross the frontier within ten days, |
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FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, DEC. 17, 1915.
War Brevities
By agreement between Bulgaria and Greece a neutral zone ex
tending two kilometres on each side of the Greek frontier has
lbeen arranged. The zone was established at the instance of Bul
garia, which an official communication from Sofia says desires to
iav_oid any possibility of accidents between Bulgarian advance posts
and Greek frontier guards. =
Although the Bulgarians have halted to the north of the Greek
‘boundary and have made no attempt to follow the British and French
forces falling back on Saloniki, there is a possivility that the
operatiors agiinst the entente allies may not long be deferred.
Unofficial advices say that 60,000 Germans are now at Gievegli,
near the Greek border, and that others are approaching.
France and Great Britian, however, continue to land additional
forces of men and arms and ammunition at Saloniki and a Saloniki
dispatch quetes a high officer there as saying that the entente
allies will net quit Saloniki until peace is signed. : ‘
Meanwhile the Austro-Hungarians and Bulgarians continua to
push further into Montenegro and ‘aleng the Albanian frontier.
To the west of Ipek in Montenegro, they are declared by Vienna
to have forced the Montemegrins to retreat toward Plava and
Gusinje, which lie in the direction of the North Albanian frontier.
The capture of heights north of Bjelopoje and of ground half way
between Rajaz and Berane is also reported by Vienna.
~ Again from the Freneh front come oniy reparts of srtillery
and mining 'op,erations.' On the Russian front starcely any fight
ing is taking place. Bombardments, interspersed here and there
with infantry attacks are in progress along the Austro-Italian linej
with no appreciable changes in the positions of either side. ;
The heavy artillery of the alliea troeps on the Gallipsli penin
sula is bombarding across the Dardanelles the Turkish batteries in
Asia. The Turks at Kut-El-Amara, in Mesopatamia, have not re
sumed their attack against the British sinee their récent defeat,
in which the British General Townshend estimates they lost fully
1,000 men.
The American note to France concerning the removal from
steamers of the-Porto Rico Line of Austrian and German subjects
has been delivered to the Foreign Office.
Taking -a Religious cencus.
Under the supervision of Geo,
W. Andrews, Field Secretary of
the Baptist Sunday schools, the
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}membersof the Baptist Sunday
sehool of the city took a general
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day afternoon. The tabulated ‘
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Austrians Make New Gains
Against The Montenegrins
Vienna, Dec. 15—In th: Russian and I;aliéa: theaters there is
nothing to report.
‘‘Balkan theater: The Austro-German forces of G neral Koevess
yesterday captured Montenegrin positions south of Vianagora. One
pursuing column penetrated Para Pass and scattered an enemy battalion
near Clibacs. Other troops advanced to Grab.
*‘On the plateau east of Berane Mohammedans and Albanians are
fighting alongside o our troops against the Monteregrins. Here 840
soldiers and 150 men hable for military servicas were taken prisone;S.”
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London, Dec. I6—A wireless dispatch from Berlin qudi't.es the
Pester Lloyd of Budapest as declaring that it has reliable repmfts ?ha't.
the Russians are removing from the Bessarabisn frontier most ofé{;.the‘.
troops stationed there. Telegraphic communication between Russia.
aod Ramania has been stopped, according to advices to the newspaper..
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Paris, Dec. 16—1 It is reported from Rome that King Peter, of
Serbia, driven from his country by the Teutonic mvasion, will take
refuge in Italy. A Rome dispatch to the Matiu tays the king has ac
cepted Italy’s offer of the palace at Caserta, near Naples, which is now
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