The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-10-31

mo written in the form Of revolt in South
Africa. A week ago, when Colonel
Maritz. in northwest Cape Colony, with his
men. rebelled, not over much Importance
was attached to it; but the news that Gen
erals Beyers and DeWet have declared
AGAINST Great Britain and are organizing
a revolt in the Orange Free State and the
Transvaal, is replete with significance, and
a civil war is openly looked forward to by
the British government General DeWet,
it will be remembered, was the most formi-
dable commander in the Boer war against
the British. It took England two years
and a million men to defeat the Beers
twelve years ago.
Added to this new situation is the grave
tension existing in Egypt, which may at
any moment assume the proportions of
pan-Islamic confag grafton
AS this goes to press the news comes
(seemingly authentic) that Turkey has de-
clared war ON the Russian empire, the
Turks firing on the Crimean port Of Theo-
dosia, the cathedral, Greek church, and
other buildings being badly damaged; and
the surrender of the city and the govern
ment properties are demanded, the bonn
bardment of the town threatened if re-
fused
The Germans continue battering at the
line Of the Allies in Belgium and northern
France The hand-to-hand fighting in
progress at many places is so severe that
it has become a massacre. Seven times
the Germans have charged across the User
river and have been driven back.
German reports show that the army of
the Kaiser has lost $4,000 in killed and
wounded. The savageness of the fighting,
the desperation Of the German attacks, and
the stubbornness of the Allies resistance
is beyond the power of words to tell.
There were $500 German bodies in the
User canal one morning, after a night s
fighting. The very water itself was
bloody, and the streets of the town were
strewn with the dead. At almost every
point of the line man was opposed to man,
sometimes at few hundred yards dis
tance but more often in close grips. Face
to face, men even Wrestled and died by
drowning each other in the canals waters
It is believed that 5000 Germans crossed
the river User Sunday night, but hardly
one of them got back. The frightful de
struction Of life in this battle along the
User is reported without parallel. Air
death-sweep the country vertically, hori-
zontally, and transversely.
From the rest Of the long line Of BATTLE
stretching to the south and east across
France to the border of Swift zerand, there
is no word, although it is probable that
heavy fighting is in progress to the north
of Verdun, where the army of the German
crown prince is making desperate effort /
to pierce the French line.
The British casualty list is very heavy,
much smaller than the German
loss.
The German advance on Warsaw has
been halted. That city is now we'll de-
Tended, the Allies receiving reinforce
ments.
In Galaca, both sides are claiming suc-
cesses, but no important change in the
positions can be discovered. The move
ment toward Cracow seems to have com
pletely stopped. Jaslo has been evac-
uated and the seige Of Przemysl has to
all intents and purposes been abandoned.
The passing of the battleship seems as
sured, in view of the impossibility Of de-
Tending it against joint attack Of sub
marines and some form of aircraft. Since
the beginning of the war, nearly one YES
sci a week has been destroyed by sub
Marines
Among the Germans, typhus is said to
have made it's appearance, and it is also
stated that there is much pneumonia and
lysentery Conditions among the French
onI IL 70 no
Germans, it is fair to suppose the same
diseases exist there. The number of cases
Of cholera in the Austrian and Russian
camps is increasing, although strenuous eff
forts are being made to stamp out the
HIGH LIGHTS:
In the last twenty-five years, the six
great military nations, England, France,
Germany, Austria, Italy, and Russia, have
spent about $40000,0 100000 to get ready
to fight one another Belgian soldiers
wives are receiving weekly allowance of
thirteen cents a week, and on this they
live = Many Of the Dutch towns are so
filed with the Belgian refugees that the
streets are said to be impossible. Among
them are many mothers who have been
separated from their children and are half
crazed in consequence. = Armored motor
cars equipped with machine guns are now
playing part in the war. = Thousands of
bags intended for the years crops in Bel
gium were filled with sand and piled up
for breastworks. = The use Of barbed wire
for defense has forced the armies to equip
their men in the attacking columns with
cutters. = Each army is followed by large