The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-10
CRUISER ElNDEN IS DESTROYED AND KOENIGSBERG BOTTLED UP:
 FIERCE FIGHTING IN BELGIUM

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 Ocean-Emden's Record Most
 Astounding in History.
 Koenigsberg is Shut Up In,
 Harbor Off African Coast
 Armies in Western Theatre Of
 War Are Drawn Up For the
 Mightiest Blow Yet in War
 of the World.
 Great Britain has had her in ningsKon the sea. The famous German cruiser Emden has met her fate. The Koenigs- berg, another German scourge of the seas, has been bottled np. Thus England obtain partial revenge for the havoc wrought on her sea commerce by Ger many's elusive marine raiders.
 Fighting on land proceeds with savage intensity but with lout definite issue on any of the field of battle. Tn Belgium, Geranany's renewed attempt to break through to the English Channel has brought onsa fear fnl struggle still to be decided Along the eastern frontier of Prussia both Germany
 Russia. lay claim to successes. In the near east the Russians are meeting unexpectedly stiff resistance from the Turks.
 The Emden was active to the Hast, and closed her career iii action, as the bold captain who |commanded her must have Iwished. From Penang, where she sank a French and Rus. sian warship after disguising herself with false smokestack land a Japanese flag, she ven tured back into the Indian l Ocean where she had previous llF met with a majority of the l % ships. she sent to the bot 1 tom. Her last feat was to cut the cable leading to the Cocos Islands, British possessions in the Indian Ocean. It fell to the Hot of the Australian cruiser | Sydney to accomplish what the I English, French, Russian and l Japanese warships that have long pursued the Emden, were unable to do.
 The Sydney overlook the Emden near Gocos Island, set 1 fire to her with shells from her heavy guns and drove the Em- :. den ashore. London reports that the losses of officers and ! crew were heavy but Tokio says most of the men probably l, were rescued.
 The Koenigsberg, which dis , abled the British cruiser Pega- sus in Zanibar harbor several i weeks ago, is bottled up at 3 Mafia Island on the coast Of German East Africa, the chan mel to the harbor having been II blocked.
 BattEe Fierce in Belgium. : On the European battlefelds the F fight is f1ercest along the small strip t of Belgian territory in possession of P the allies from the sea to ATmen- I tieres near the French loord CT. Of by the Germans. the present is prob : ably the most severe.
 Today's French official statement reports that fighting is especially vi0- ! lent, that the German advance south
 of Ypres a few miles north of the
 French border, has been checked and i.that further to the south the French have made some progress
 All accounts agree however that ii is slow work The troops are fight
 ing in a dense fog, from one sand
 dune to another, sometimes creeping
 slowly through the thick grass to win
 a few yards.
 Paris advices indicate that else . where along the main battle line the : situation is much the same as 1t has
 been for several weeks. The efl-
 cial statement announces that the new
 German attacks at various points have
 been checked The importance at-
 eastern frontier of Germany is saoTgz
 in the tenor of despatches from r
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