The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-11-12
Russians Present a $50 Mile
Battle Line--Armenian Up
rising Reported Against
Turkey.

Athens, Nov. Am American ship,
which lay within the entrance of the
Dardanelles. reported to the British
admiral on departing that the forts on
either side had been completely de-
molished by the British bombardment.
London, Nov. g. Engineers from
the Krupp works are placing heavy
cannon on the boulevard at Ostend
commanding the harbor approach, to
contest the guns Of the allied warships
which are said to be about to begin a
bombardment of the coast city.
Large forces of German cavalry are
being withdrawn from Belgium and
sent into Germany. presumably for
duty against the Russians who are
now threatening East Prussia, accord
Ing to a dispatch reaching here today
from Rotterdam.
Several trains bearing troop shave
departed from Brussels for Liege.
The feature Of the news received
from Petrograd early today is the an
nouncement that the Russian advance
is proceeding rapidly along the whole
front from the Baltic sea to the Car
pathians.
That the Armenians are rising
against Turkey, welcoming the invad-
ing Causaslans as their liberators, is
also reported from Petrograd. The
first actual fighting of the Russo
Turkish campaign is reported to have
taken place at Passine, Deadine and
Barazet. The Russians, victorious,
have resumed their march westward.
The nature Of the territory to be ira
versed Is serving to delay the progress
of the Russian army, but their ad-
vance toward Constantinople. W lille
slow, is nevertheless certain.
The admiralty announces today that
the town of Fac, on the Persian gulf.
at the mouth Of the river Shat-e.-Arab,
was occupied after an hours fighting
by military force from India, assisted
by naval force from the warships
Ocean, S'rda and Ferdin. There wee
no British casualties and further resist
ance at this port is not looked for.
Fac is the western terminal of me sub
marine telegraph to India.
A dispatch from Constantinople
states that the Russian Black sea feet
has bombarded Zungulday and Kuzlu
in Turkey, sinking several vessels in
those harbors.
According to Petrograd dispatch,
the Russian armies are advancing
from the Baltic to the Carpathfa1s
along a battle line Of $50 miles.
The general situation. as sumnar
lied by the Russian general staff.
shows that the Germans in east Pras.
STA have been beaten back to the Ma
eur lakes. having lost every advantage
gained in three months; that theS
rear guard IN Poland has retreated be-
hind the Warthe river within 20 miles
of the Silesian frontier; that the Aus
tro1German force in southwest Poland
is near the line of Kalicz- Czenstach-
owa, and that the Austrian resistance
in Galicia has been broken.
The Russian army operating frsm
the Vistula to the region Of Krelce h
declared to have captured 124 officers.
1880 men. three howitzers, 40 pieces
of field artillery, SO rapid-fre guns and
a large quantity of other war material,
The Russian left center is driving rap
idly for Cracow, with the evident pur-
pose Of cooperating with the left wing
in Galicia, which has driven the Aus
trans west of the San river and is now
in forward movement