THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 December 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

l> I KLKimtlG IBLKUlUl'tt— COt'KHIUUr. •. '■ iPKU I'ilUfiH : v . " London, '.December 22. A 'iSJfiEX POLITE STRUGGLE. ■Laflmuehere's Truth says tiio Hon. Mv Lloyd George s speech on Monday is the last word in ;i keen" it polite struggle which hua been proceeding loi " mouths. • • . Tiio speech obviously provokes a Ministerial situation, and it is not easy to see how Mr Lloyd George Lord Kitchener can remain iii the sumo Cabinet. GALLIPOLI. Amsterdam, Dec. 22. A Turkish communique states :•■- 'iho booty at Ari Biirmi included many mules. Enemy warships all dsiy bombarded the camps endeavouring to destroy booty. » London, Doc. 22. The .President of the Keichstag says that the evacuation of Gallipoli is a military and moral defeat for Britain and a. triumph for Turkjsh arms. Mr fralzioll, sprnking in.the Hoiixo of Oom.mons said that hundreds of thousands of ( lives had been wasted by tiie stupidity'of fhe NVar Office. Tile generals who woro responsible for ti:e

nioii dying of thirst at Surla were still in .^command. VAK.NA NOT OOOUPItfD. -Bucharest, Dec. 2". The-occupation of Varna is not confirmed. X Advices from Haltehik state that forty vessels appeared ofi : Cape Kalinkra and proceeded in Lin , direction of Varna. Four large warships bombard e<l the town for a couple n. hours. A io's caused a cassation oi tin , tu.i.ibardment. The squadron returned to Kaliakra. iSin;iilt«neon>iy with the bombardment of Varna two Russian gunboats Ijoir barded the Bulgarian frontier near Kkrone. Two Turkish .sailing boats j)roeeediug tp Constkzch welre sunk and the crews were taken prisoner.

THE FRENCH J/ItOXT. Paris, Dec. 22. A Icoinmunicjue states:—Our. artillery exploded an ammunition depot '.i: .Hois Bougiiot on tlie Mouse. The enemy renamed a footing m part ol the trendies captured by us on Tuesday. , ' CHIUSTMAS MAILS. London. Dee. 22. The strain on the post office is gauged by the fact that on - Monday half a milium parcels and a million nnrt a halt letters were post in the , (hiiteil Kingdom for the troops in Franco. Six special trains and four CHannei boats are running' tlaily. ULUTALVtS COLOSSAL J'JXP.ENDITUBJS.

London, Dec. X 2',i. The Daily 'lelegrapii publishes a meiiilcsto eiujiic-d by tiiiu principal bankers of .Britain. The manifesto states fclrat it does not doubt that the Allies' financial resources when fully mobilised, will he vastly greater than enemy s. The colossal imsk oi fniclin gthe 'bulk of the iminen.se sums needed, falls oh the British. .Mr McKenna had etstimated the expenditure for the current iinanei«i year at i'l ! ."j<J().oo0 J OQO, the raisiug of whii-h would tiy the mciUlo of the nation inure than anything in tne past one hundred years. T'hc nation's must be completely conrentrnted on the pi'oduction of real essentials. Only !ir a-ll cia.vt:.'s sujipiemeiiiiiig incomt« ;>iul by soiling loroign socurities and crating foreign credits tvill it be possible to provide tho vast sums needed. (Received This Day \),25 a.m.) CASUALTIES AT THE IXUIDANMJLES. London, Dec. 23. Official.—The Dardanelles casualties to the lltii total 112,a21. THE TURKISH REPORT. A Turkish communique says our artillery on the Anatolian coast oi the Straits successfully 'bombarded the landing places at Tubkoburmhve anu sank a small ammunition vessel. We found in one sector cleared of the enemy, provisions sufficient for an evtire army corps'for a long time; one million sandbags, one thousand tents, five hundred blankets, four thousan. - . stretchers and one mortar. Near Oghinedere many mortar bombs were found hiddeJi in the ground. Our artillery near Kutelamara sank two monitors and caused an explosion on a third.