The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-25
DIARY or i WAR.
Sunday Oct 10.

Sunday. Oct. 10.
French capture Armentieres, on
Belgian frontier, marking their near.
est point to the German main line Of
communications.
! Allies drive Germans back thirty
miles In northern area OF fighting,
from st. Omer.
British warships assist In land
battle along Belgian coast southwest
Of Ostend.
Anti-German MODS wreck and loot
stores belonging to Germans IN east
end Of London.
British casualties between Sept. Is
and Oct. 8 are ofdcially given as 5S1
officers and 1880 men.
Monday, Oct -.
The Germans announce attacks Of
allies to the west OF Lille have been
repulsed With great loss.
Germans attempt unsuccessfully to
drive Be4gians back between Nieu-
port south OF Ostend and Dixmunde.
Petrograd announces 100000 add
tional Russians are proceedings to-
ward Warsaw.
japanese announce cruiser Taxa
chino vas sunk by . mine OF Kiao
Chau.
French cruiser IL reported to have
sunk Austrian submarine In Adriatic.
Tussday, Oct. 20.
French war Office announces At
tacks by Germans along entire front
were repulsed.
Germans state their army advanc-
irs along Belgium coast to Ostend, en-
countering strong resistance along
User river.
Austrians claim Important victories
at Warsaw and Przemysl.
Japanese occupy German Pacific Is
lands In Marshall, Mariana and Caro-
line archipelago.
Wednesday. Oct. ~.
Berlin states British warships have
bombarded Ostend.
French Official reports state allies
are holding their own along the battle
front.
British war ONCE issues statement
highly praising the in which
the Belgian army has been holding
on superior numbers Of the enemy.
Petrograd affrms Germans occupy
been repulsed with heavy loss.
British admiralty states German
cruiser Emden has sunk five more
British merchantmen In Indian wat
ers, making twenty-one in all.
Thursday. Oct. q.
French claim victories north OF Yer
dun but state conditions r unchang-
ed elsewhere.
Petrograd dispatches claim the Ger
invasion Of Poland has failed
and Russians have % decisive vic
tories.
Germans report the capture OF 1000
British troops west OF Lille.
Prussian diet votes $375. 600. eeo for
war purposes and Vice Chancellor
says Germany will fight on
until a lasting peace il possible.
viennnese reports claim victories
OF Russians in Bukovina crown lands
which Russians had completely occu-
pied.
Friday, Oct %.
French wal ONCE states German
right wing has been heavily rein
forced and has advanced about La
bassee. The allies moved forward
east Of Armentieres.
French are reported to have reoccu-
pied Altkirch, in Alsece.
British admiralty admits German
cruised Karlsruhe has sunk twelve
British merchantmen near Canary Is
land.
German refnforcements are advanc-
ing toward Warsaw from east Prus-
STA.
Japanese capture German destroyer
which escaped from Kiao Chau.
Saturday, Oct. "a.
Petrograd reports German army IN
east Prussia is being driven back
with large losses.
Russia offers to lfberate and return
to Italy ell Austrian soldiers OF Ital-
ian blood who are prisoners OF war.
Berlin claims German counter-ofen-
sive between Arras and Lille is being
continued successfully.
French claim successes east of
Nieuport and Armentieres.
Germans ask armistice to bury dead
at T~hiaucourt which French refuse.
French resume offensive in eastern
frontier distrist against Metz.
To jail for Life.
limited Press Leased Wire Service.]
SALINAS, Calf, Oct. 24.-Geo. Ko-
DAM, Japanese photographer, who
confessed to killing Miss Helena