The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-10-31
NAVAL CONFLICT
RAGINCAT ODESSA
Russian FIeer Engages Turkish
Warships in Battle
TWO GERMAN CRUISERS AID
Sink Russian Gunboat and Two
Steamships. Besides Damaging 4
French Vessel.

Steamships, Besides Damaging
French Vessel.
London, Oct. 31-A dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company from
Rome says:
at is reported from Constantinople
that battle between the Turkish
and Russian fleets Is in progress on
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 fleet 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 state
Of war exists by directing her amhas-
sador at Constantinople and all Rus
sian consuls in Turkish ports to AT
once withdraw from that country.
by beginning hostilities without an
nouncement nf her intentions, Turkey
a-Scured the first success of this
rfTrep RIssian 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 hombarded the
city and sank the Russian gunboat
Donets, and also inflicted damage on
the French liner Portugal and the
Russian steamers Iazareh. Wftia2
and Whampoa A number Of sailors
were killed or wounded.
On Thursday morning a Turkish
cruiser, which is reported to have
been the former German cruiser Bres
STA. 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.
1.-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 a 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
engulfing the eastern hemisphere 1t
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.
luents. II is understood. The appear
pee 1.-THE allied feet off the Darda
1NNHes viii be a natural sequence.