GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 48, 26 October 1915, Page 2

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

[C £vm;r Press Assjiuation.J j.-i.uiM!, October 21. Liie landing at Kiirucluili early in August was merely a feint, carried out by I3SU volunteers,, who volunteered for service in the French army, and previously ;a« hard service in France. They advanced inland, eut(ting telegraph and telephone wires, and penetrated a considerable distance. The Turks sent a largo force Ji! pursuit , unaware of the numbers of the invaders, and surrounded the Cretans in ; , wood. This (he Cretans ignited, and escaped under cover oi the smoke. They fought a. lefcieal toward-, the beach, and a small force which hailed al Ihe cliffs kept the Tin ks at bay \\ hil c the rest embarked on the warshij).s. Twenty of their comrades ivJm reinaiued asliorc were either killed, wounded, or taken | risouer. ({outer's correspond,Mu a t the Dardanelles says thai the Armenian horrors are fully confirnied. An eye-wit-ness in one instance saw a hundred human wolves plunge among one thousand defenceless beings, tearing them to pieces with their bayonets. He has! reason to believe that Germau advisors urge (lie undesirability of allow- ">!-': a large alien population to inhabit l>ai'ts of an ran pi re (hat is exposed to Russian attack. 'flic casualty lists in Flanders dated .September 26-October J,'!, show totals of 2068 officers and ,'30,886 men. Pan's, October 21.

Tlie official "Eye-witness," reviewing the Champagne battle, says that 140,000 of (he enemy were put out of action, our preparations being so skilful. The Gorman General Staff thought a big effort was being made in Alsace. and they consequently massed important forces there. Although the British attack northward of La liassee on September 25th paled before that at Loos, nevertheless, it is memorable for the superb gallantry of the Black Watch who went over the parapet with the pipers

playing ahead of them, while the men bombed along the trenches. After the first rush two pipers stood on the parapet, amid a terrific lire, and played "llieland Laddies," the regimental charge. Their defiant skirl was heard above the noise of the bombs. One piper was shot down but his companion continued. A Black Watch sergeant killed seven Germans with the bayonet, single-handed. A sergeant of the Leicestershire, who was lying wounded after the retirement, saw the Germans bayonet tin;.'; wounded men, so he feigned death and the marauders were content with stealing his watch.

Amsterdam, October 21. The "Bourse Gazette" admits that the. German losses in the Baltic to date are two Zeppelins, four Albatrosses, twelve Taubes, and one seaplane. Amsterdam, October 2DThe Kaiser, in a rhapsodical speech to the Prussian Guards, said they had bad seventy days' fighting, storming j twenty-nine enemy positions, and had J assisted in bringing to an end a cam- J paign thai cost tho enemy ail the i Frontier fortresses, countless booty, war material, and prisoners. He concluded:—"We are fighting in a just cause. God is witli us, and will be with us further."

Circumstances point either to the institution of ;i new commerce-raiding campaign by the Germans in the Caribbean Sen. or the beginning of a series of (ilbustering expeditions in Mexico. The departure of several sea-go-ing motor-boats with escaped German warrant officers who were interned at Norfolk, and the mysterious movements of several American vessels in the Gulf of Mexico, have baffled officials, who are anxious to prevent a violation of neutrality-. I