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an immediate echo in Austrian mi
itary circles, and that Austrian troop
were rushed to the Italian border an
to Pola.
The Allies are approaching a salts
factory understanding with the Bal
kan States, according to Athens dis
patches.
Berlin withholds dstails of tn,
capture of Lodz, in Poland. whicl
gives them control of the railwa,
lines into Warsaw. Military critic
regard the feat of the German arm,
as remarkable, it is stated. The Off
cial statement fro mthe Austrian Wa
Office says the fighting in Poland Il
yet undecisive. Petrograd has mad,
no official statement of the loss o.
the city.
Taking advantage of the preoccu.
cupation of the Germans in the East
the Allies have begun offensive move.
ments in the West, and claim to be
in virtual possession of the left bank
of the User.
| Wednesday.
Kaiser Wilhelm is ill, according
to an official report from Berlin.
Feverish bronchial catarrh has kept
him from making planned trip to
the front. Another Berlin report
says that everything is proceeding
according to our programme" The
capture of Lodz caused great enthu-
siasm in the German capital.
In Belgium a violent German at
tack on st. Eloy, south of Ypres, has
been repulsed, says the French Of
fetal communication. Great activ-
ity is reported in the forests of Ar
gonne.
Earl Kitchener conferred yester-
day with the Belgian Premier as to
the disposition of the Belgian wound
ed and sick in England and France.
Eearl Annesley, who disappeared
while on an aerial expedition. is said
to have been shot in a fight over
Ostend.
The German headquarters and gen.
eral staff at Roulers was so fiercely
shelled yesterday by the British
forces that the Germans were forced
to move farther back from the battle
line.
Gen. Christian Beyers, one of the
leaders of the South African re-
bellion. has been shot, according to
official announcement at Johannes
burg.
Thursday.
A British squadron under COM
mand of Vice Admiral Sturdee en-
gagged a German squadron under Ad-
miral Won Spec. off the Falkland Is
lands, in the South Atlantic, Tues
day. sinking the German armored
cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
and the protected cruiser Leipsig,
being a part of the squadron which
destroyed the Good Hope and Nom
mouth in the Pacific recently. The
Dresden and Nurnberg. of the Ger
man squadron, made Off and are be-
ing pursued. The GOLFERS were
captured. Some survivors were res
cued. 1t is thought Admiral Won
Spec. his officers and men went
down.
The latest bulletin from the bed
side of Emperor William, issued at
1881 this morning. says the En-
peror's condition is unchanged and
that he is unable to leave his bed. !
His fever has not decreased. An
earlier dispatch said that he was
from pneumonia.
1t is officially announced that Subhi |
Bey, late Governor of Basra, Asiatic
Turkey, has surrendered Kurna with
MS trops Internationally to the
British operating at the head of the
Persian Gulf. 1t is stated that the
British now have complete control
'f the country from the junction of
he Tigris and Euphrates rivers to
he sea, and of the richest part of
he delta.
A dispatch from Nish says the
offensive movement of the Servian
Irmy has been successful along the
'ntire front, and that 1000 prison
rs wer taken at one point.
The evacuation of Lodz by the
russians is admitted in a semi-offi-
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