Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-11-13

their advance. Slow progress is be-
ing made because of the determined
resistance of the enemy. now made
up more than in half of second line
troops. but It is insisted that there is
no longer any doubt of the final re
suit. The German attempt to ad
vance to the sea is characterized as
the most costly defeat of the war
May Leave Belgian Coast.
The way to Bruges is now open to
the Allies, allowing them to recapture
Roulers, and the Germans are digging
new trenches behind Ghent with few.
erish energy. To do this is to an
nounce their retreat. The Germans
are abandoning their wounded, guns
and transports. Unless their fleet
comes out to create diversion they
viii. le driven from the Belgian coast
within week.
The fighting on the northwestern
flank is now of a particularly savage
character. A considerable number oil
the wounded suffer from bayonet
thrusts which often pass completely
through parts of the bodies of men.
Buried 25,ooo Germans.
AS showing the huge German losses
in the Ypres region it is stated that
the British soldiers have buried more
than twenty-five thousand Germans.
There are many great piles of German
dead around Dixmude, which 1t has
been impossible to bury on account OF
the continuous fighting. Dixmude is
heap of ruins. German aeroplanes
have been very active.
German Weeks Loss $1,000.
The German casualty lists for last
week amount to $1,000. The total to
date is about 100000. Reports from
stations for convalescents show that
thousands of wounded have already re.
turned to the front and others are
being used as instructors for new for
nations.
Turkey has definitely broken of
diplomatic relations with Great Brit
ain, France. Russia and Servia. Her
diplomatic representatives in the cap
itals of these countries, acting on or
ders from the Porte. have demanded
and received their passports.
Turks Fight Russians.
The first reports OF the fight
ing between the Russians and the
Turks are as conflicting as were the
first Austrian and Russian accounts of
the warfare in Galicia. Each contend
er claims to have invaded the others
territory and to have defeated his
frontier armies. These fights. how
bob
guard affairs, and it is believed
that some time may elapse before a
pitched battle takes place.
The Anglo-French fleet continues to
lombard the Dardanelles forts, but
the Turks say the warships have in
tiicted no damage. In other parts of
Turkey, British warships are being
kept busy. The government, how
ever. has ordered that holy places
shall be respected by the British gun
fire, as long as the Indian subjects
visiting them are not molested.
This necessity for respecting the
telling of her Moslem subjects may
hamper Great Britain somewhat in the
prosecution of the war against Tur-
key, but with her large Moslem pop
ulation, it cannot be disregarded.
How Turkey Entered War.
Turkish battle cruisers bombarded
two Russian Black Sea ports, damag-
ing property considerably, and sank
two or three small Russian war ves-
sells. several days ago.
Shelied Turkish Fort.
After twenty-four hours OF uncer-
tainty, during which hope was ex-
pressed that the porte nisnL make
amends for the incidents in the Black
Sea, the British admiralty announced
that the British cruiser Minerva had
destroyed the Turkish barracks at
Akabah on the Turko-Egyptian from
Gulf of Akabah. an arm of the Red
Sea. $50 miles east of Suez.
Long German Retreat.
The new position of the German
army front, along the River Warthe
over seventy-five miles west of the
Vistula river, which they reached at
the time OF the attempted attack on
Warsaw. indicates the tremendous re-
treat of General Won Hindenburg's en-
tire army in Poland the last two
weeks. This retreat is regarded as
especially important since such noted
Industrial centers at Lodz, Piotrkow,
Radon and Kieice are recaptured by
the Russians. The strategic point at
Sandomir, which is at the junction of
the San and Vistula rivers, has also
been retaken.
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