GENERAL WAR NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 59, 8 November 1915, Page 3

GENERAL WAR NEWS

OFFICIAL ENEMY REPORTS. United Press Association. Berlin, November G. A communique says:—The enemy s statement that seven German battalions at Loos lost eighty per cent, was entirely invented. Despite their extraordinarily high losses the Russians continue their unsuccessful attacks between Sweikten and Islen Lakes. Our Balkan armies captured tlw? heights at Arilje and at Morairea Valley, and also the ridge at Jelicaplauia, south of Coeak. 'J hey reached the western bank of the Jolyskanmrava, capturing twelve hundred Serbians. General von Galliwitz stormed the heights south of Lagosnir, and took fifteen hundred prisoners. A wireless states that the surrounding of the Serbians continues, ami the junction of General Koevess with the Vishegrad group threatens to cut oil the Serbian retreat towards ‘Montenegro in the east and north. A German communique states that during the recent fighting at Strypa. the Russian prisoners totalled sixthousand. We captured Kraljeco and have captured Vauvariu by surprise, taking three thousand Serbian prisoners, and wo have established connection with the main Bulgarian army at Kivevir. Amsterdam, November G. An Austrian communique states: We completely repulsed the Russians from Semikowee and on the west bank of the Strypa. We captured two thousand prisoners in tike south-eastern theatre in the Gen region, and stormed the mountains west of Grahevo. We scattered the Montenegrin garrison, General Koeves is driving Serbians into the mountains south ol Caeak. The Gormans are approaching Kralatevo.

BRITISH SUCCESSES IN MESOPOTAMIA. Amsterdam, November 7. The Tageblatt asserts that the English forces have taken Baghdad. I SEDITION IN EGYPT. Cairo, November 7. A Militurv Court sentenced Halni Haimid. a customs employee at Port Sudan, to ten years’ penal servitude for possessing a document, the object of which was to stir up disaffection against the Government. London, November ~>- A question is being asked in the House of Commons as to whether -Mr Lloyd George’s son is a lieutenantcolonel of the pioneer battalion of the Welsh Regiment. He is aged twentysix years, and is the youngest lieu-tenant-colonel but one. He was a private fourteen months ago. There will be an exceptional military display in the Lord Mayor’s procession. The oversea detachments will include members of the New Zealand infantry. The cloth mills in the United Kingdom have supplied twenty-tour million yards of uniform cloths to the Allied troops since the war began.