Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-11-06
NAVAL CONFLICT
RAGING AT ODESSA
Russian FIeer Engages Turkish
WarShips in Battle,
TWO GERMAN CRUISERS AID.
Sink Russian Gunboat and Two
Steamships, Besides Damaging
French Vessel.

A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph company in London from Rome
says ---: re--. s.----
ut is reported from Constantinopie
that battle between the Turkish
and Russian fleets is in progress Off
Odessa"
The Berlin newspaper Zeitung-Am.
Mittag published what purports to be
an official communication from Con-
stantinople. 1t states:
Russian torpedo boats attempted
to prevent the Turkish feet from leaV-
ing the Bosphorus and steaming into
the Black sea. The Turkish ships
opened fire and sank two of the Rus
sian vessels. More than thirty Russian
sailors, saved by the Turks, were
make prisoners. The Turkish fleet
sustained no losses"
Thus far there has been no open
movement against France or Great
Britain, although such a step is
looked for next by both these govern
ments.
Russia has recognized that a state
Of war exists by directing her ambas'
sador at Constantinople and all Rus.
sian consuls in Turkish ports to at
once withdraw from that country.
BY beginning hostilities without an
nouncement of her intentions, Turkey
has scored the first success of this!
new war; Three Russian ports on the
Black sea have been entered and two
of them bombarded.
Entering Odessa, which Is on the
northwest coast of the Black sea, on
Wednesday night, two Turkish tor
pedo boat destroyers bombarded the
city and sank the Russian gunboat
Donets, and also inflicted damage on
the French liner Portugal and the
Russian steamers Lazareff, Witiaz
and Whampoa. A number of sailors!
were killed or wounded.
On Thursday morning Turkish
cruiser, which is reported to have
been the former German cruiser Bres'
lau, bombarded the port of Theodo'
sia, on the southern coast of the Cri
mea, for an hour, damaging the ca
thedral, a pier and some sheds. One
sailor on shore was wounded.
A dispatch from Petrograd to the
Reuter- Telegram company says:
"a dispatch from ,Kertsch, a sea-
port on the Crimea at the entrance to
the Sea of Azov, reports that near
the Takol lighthouse the Russian
steamer Yalta, from the Caucasus
was sunk by torpedo launched by
the Turkish cruiser Goeben. The
crew and passengers were saved.
"The steamer Kazbek, which went
to the rescue, was struck by a tor
pedo and sank. Many persons aboard
were drowned"
The battle array as result OF the
entry of the Ottoman empire into the
international struggle now stretches
in an almost unbroken diagonal line
across Europe, and as Turkeys ad'
herence to the Teutonic side of the
quarrel can hardly be the last new
factor in the war which gradually is
engulfng the eastern hemisphere ii
may reach from the Atlantic to the
Indian oceans.
Greece, Rumania and Bulgaria are
virtually certain to be drawn into
the conflict which already is engag.
ing ten nations, and the ultimate in
clusion of Italy and Persia, with per-
haps the Asiatic lands to the east
ward of Persia is today regarded in
London as scarcely less probable.
The action of Emperor Nicholas in
instructing his ambassador and con-
suls to quit Turkey, will be followed
promptly by similar action on the
part of each of the allied govern
ments, it is understood. The appear
ance of the allied feet off the Darda.
nelles will be a natural sequence.