The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1914-11-06
BRITISH Mine
. SWEEPER sunk
BY GERMAN Mine
Six of Crew Are Saved. Re-
port Firing in the North
Sea.
ISLAND OF CYPRUS
TAKEN BY ENGLAND
Great Britain Announces That
State of War Exists Between
King and Sultan.

London, Nov. 5-Tiie German sub
marines of the latest type and 4 num-
her Of torpedo boats are being rushed
across Belgium fram Germany on
trains for launching at Bru@r, to raid
the British coast, according To 4 dis
patch from Amsterdam.
The Germans have closed The wafer
way between Bru"cs and Ztpbruge.
Great bodies CT nayaI reserves and ac-
tive seamen are masScd al Bruee.i and
will man the sea fighters - saor as
they enter the water.
Paris. Nov. j-Thc Germans are
/ bringing up heavy rcinTorcamcnts 10
( make new drive for the coast
/ through Yrres. Lille and .lrras. II
is reported that three hundred and ff-
/ IT, thousand men are being added for
/ this purpose.
/ The Allies are Dlannin" t0 meet
them with fresh troons.
London, Nov. 5-Thc British mine
sweeper Mar was sunk by a mine in
the North Sea tOd2v Six OF the crew
OF II were rescued. The survivors who
were landed at Lowestoft reported
heavy gun firing oil the Yorkshire
coast this afternoon.
Great Britain today formally annex
cd the Island of Cyprus. in the MCdit-
erranean,which nomiraily formed a
part Of the Turkis!. Empire.
The defensive alliance between
Great Britain and Turkey having he
come annullcd by the outbreak Of wa.
the British Government decided il WIS
necessary to appropriate the island IN
order that prOner provision might be
made for its government and for its
protection.
The island, since the Anglo Turkish
convention of 1878, had kcen occupied
and administered by Great Britain,
though ii had remained under the ,,u-
Zerainty of the Sultan.
IL was officially announced in Lon
don today that a state ~ var exists
between Great Britain and Turkey.
This follows the announcement in
COnstantinople yesterday that the
Porte had recalled the Turkish AmbaS-
sadOrS 30 France and Great Britain,
the Charge d'Affaires at PetrOgTad
and the Minister TO Servia. The Am
bassadOrs fr0m the Sultan's Govern
mont left London and Bordeaux. last
night. 1t is understood that Tewiik
Pasha, the Ambassador to London. did
all in mis- power 10 preserve peace be-
tween Turkey and Great Britain.
4 proclamation Gazettcd today
reads as follows:
Owing to hostile acts committed by
Turkish forces under German officers.
= state Of war exists between Great
Britain and Turkey from today and all
prOclamatiOns and orders in council is
sued with reference TO the state Of war
between Great Britain and Germany
and Austria shall apply 20 the state of
war between Great Britain and Tur-
key"
4 Driyy council was held in
Buckingham Palace this morning to
discuss this question. At its cOnclu-
sion King George signed the dOcu-
ments Droclaiming the state of war.
Bucharest. Nov. Turkish war
ships have sunk two Russian passcn-
gen steamers in the Black Sea, fore
ing the Messengers and crews TO take
to the boats.
Santiago, Chile. Nov. 5--A steam
collier which has arrived at Valparaiso
reports having seen eight Japanese
warShiDs at Easter Island in the Paci-
fc abort 23G0 miles west of the Chill
can coast. East Island bcloncs 10 the
Republic of Chile.
No word has come from the British
ships that engaged the German squad
ron of COrOnei Sunday and the Brit
ish side Of TIE story Is yet TO be told.
According TO German accounts their
armOred cruisers SeharnhOrst and
Gneisenau and the light cruisers
Eeurnberg. LeiDsic and Bremen os-
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