Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-11-04


dors OF France, Russia and Great
Britain, in conformity with the in
structions of their governments, de-
manded their passports from the
Grand Vizier and left Turkey.
From the impressions received
from North Africa it appears THAI
the Mussulman world intends in no
degree to throw in it's lot with the
Turks"
Berlin Says News Favorable.
Berlin, Nov. Information given
: out to-day for the press in official
quarters is as follows:
The progress of the fighting on
| the front in the north Of France is
regarded here as highly favorable.
| The report given out yesterday, with
| it's news that the French had been
| thrown back across the AiSne at a
! point near Soissons and that the
| operations already had been extend
| ed to the west front Of Verdun, is re-
| garded as the most favorable issued
| for some time past.
Death Toll Great.
Letters frr,r the front reaching
| Berlin describe the fighting between
! Newport and Ypres as probably the
| fiercest of the whole war The Ger
| mans forced their way southwark by
| repeated night attacks. The toll Of
death was great on both sides"
$0,OOO,OOO Indemnity.
| Amsterdam, Nov. "A Berlin
| dispatch received here announces
| that after protracted negotiations the
war indemnity Of the Germans for
! the city Of Brussels has been fixed at
| SO, 900, 900, payable half 4 million
weekly.
British Vessels Sunk. ..
Valparaiso, Chile, Nov. 3.-The
| German warships Gneisenau, Scharn-
horst, Nurnberg, Leipsc and Dres-
| den to-day attacked the British fleet
off Coronel, Chile. The British crui-
ser Monmouth was sunk. The crui-
ser Goodhope was very badly dam
aged, and she was on fire and Is sup
posed to have been lost.
sSslS The B ritish cruiser Glasgow was
also badly fdamaged and TOOK srefnge
in the harbor of Coronel, and Is now
bottled up.
The German warships Scahrnhorst,
Nurnberg and Gneisenau anchored at
midday to-day in Valparaiso harbor
uninjured.
The Good Hope, Monmouth and
Glasgow were under command Of
Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Grad
dock. They had been searching
South American coasts for several
weeks for the German cruisers which
had beer destroying British mer-
chant vessels.
The Monmouth was 44O feet long
and carried 655 men. The Good Hope
was 800 feet long and carried 800
Thn G1ooonu, A
and carried 376 men.
British Submarine Also.
London, Nov 3.-The British sub
marine D-5 was sunk in the North
Sea early this morning by mine
which was thrown out by a German
cruiser retreating before British
cruisers.
British Bombard Turks.
London, Nov. 3.-Great Britain
and Turkey are at war; Germany
has recruited an ally in the East. At
ter "a hours Of uncertainty, during
which hope was expressed that the
porte might make amends for the
incidents in the Black Sea, the Brit
ish admiralty announced shortly be-
fore | o'clock this afternoon that a
British warship had bombarded and
had destroyed the Turkish barracks
at Akabah, on the Turco-Egyptian
frontier.
1t was at Akabah that Turkish
cavalry patrols were reported yester-
day preparatory to moving into
Egypt. There the British found SOL
diers apparently under Germans
serving as quasi-Turks, much in the
same manner as the German officers
remain in charge of the cruisers
Breslau and Goeben, and British Off
cials say there was no course but to
open hostilities.
Russians Back i'm Germany.
London, Nov. 3.-The Star to-day
publishes dispatch from its Petro-
grad correspondent, dated November
3, in which he says that the Rus
slams are now securely established in
side the East Prussian frontier.
Emperor Williams 80 miles Of
barbed wire fence around his big
game preserve at Rominton, the cor
respondent goes on, is now in the
possession Of his enemies.
At German Heart Begins Peace.
London, Nov. 3.-A dispatch from
Moscow says that Emperor Nicholas,
in telegraphing his greetings to the
Merchants Association on the occa-
sion Of the opening session, said:
peace only is possible when Rus
sia reaches the heart Of German soil.
This Is the unanimous opinion of all
Muscovitc. Any apprehension of
peace beiog concluded before the en-
emy is completely crushed is un-
founded"
Woman Poisoned Apples.