General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 1, 2 January 1915, Page 6

General News

NEW INVASION OF PORTUGUESE TERRITORY. United Press Association. (Received 8.30 a.m.) i; Lisbon, January 1. Reports state that the Germans reinvaded the-Portuguese colony in West Africa in superior numbers-, and compelled the Portuguese to retire into a strategtic'position. Portugese cavalry, by a brilliant charge, dispersed the enemy. BRITISH MISSIONARIES IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA. (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, January 1.

The Bishop of Zanzibar telegraphs that there has been no news of the forty-one British missionaries in German East Africa since the outbreak of war. An unofficial report says the missionaries are safe. YU AN-SH l-KAI'S 'NEW LEGISLATION. (Received 8.50 a.m.) 1 . v Loudon, January 1. ' The Daily Telegraph’s Pekin correspoiulent states that Yuan-Shi-Kai has carried legislation .securing for himself the presidency for. life, and also the right to nominate his successor. TURKISH TROOPS; ASSEMBLED AT JERUSALEM. (Received 9.45 a.m.) Alexandria,- January 1. A prominent American missionary from •Jerusalem, states that there 1 are active preparations for an invasion of Egypt, in the, spring. Thirty thousand Turkish troops and assembled south of Jerusalem, and it is estimated there are three thousand German officers in Palestine., All . the camels in the country have been commandeered;