Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-04
| RUSSIAN DEFEAT CLAIMED
Forces From Caucasus Beaten by
Moslems on Frontier.
Says Berlin.
WARsHIP OF CAR SUNK
Shipping Off Constantinople Being
Seized. Says Dispatch-Petrograd
Registers and Arrests Sub
jects of Porte.

LONDON. November A
state of war exists between Iur
KEY on the one side and Russia
Great Britain and Servia Oh the
other, vet the Ottoman govern
ment appears as house divided
against itself. one section seem
inelv being deslrous of war, while
the conservatives are trying tc
smooth over the situation arising
from the attacks upon Russian
ports and ships by Turkish wal
vessels directed by German Of
fcers. Rifaat Pasha, the Turk.
ish ambassador to France, &C
cordins to the Havas News
Agency, asked for his passports
which were handed to him at
Bordeaux this morning
Conflicts on both land and sea
between the allies and Turkish
troops and ships continue.
Dardanelles Bombarded.
The combined British and French
squadron bombarded the Dardanelles
forts at long range. The forts replied,
but no ships were hit, only one shot
falling alongside them.
The admiralty statement says that the
damage to the forts cannot be estimated.
but that /. great explosion accompanied
by dense volumes OF back smoke, oc-
Cured at the Holes fort.
. A dispatch from Athens says that the
bomba rdment of the forts of the Dar-
daneiies which was participated in ch ef-
ly by the British fleet, was SUSPENDED
momentarily, but later was resumed ana
continued until 10 o'clock this morning.
Seventy shells in all were fired at the
Turkish forts
Claims Russian Defeat.
Berlin claims that the first battle be-
tween the Russians and Ottoman forces
on the frontier has been decided. The
German Official statement says:
..rne first encounters on the Turk
ish frontier in which Turkish SOL
diers met Russian forces from the
Caucasus resulted unsuccessfully
for the Russians.
Nineteen Russian transports,
sunk by the Turks. had on board
LOO mines destined for the block
AIDING of Turkish waters. This fact
proves the hostile Intentions OF
Russians"
fishes d dispatch from Sofia saying the
Turkish warshlps have sunk the Rus
sian battleship Sinop.
Turkish Vessels Sink.
y dispatch from Bellegarde, on the
Swiss frontier, says that an Anglo
French fleet attacked the Turkish gun
boat Dura and the steamer Kiroli at
the entrance of the Gulf of Tchesme.
near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey. The
Turks themselves sunk both vessels to
prevent their falling into the hands of
the enemy.
The Turkish authorities, according to
Reuters Telegram Company dispatch
gun to seize the shipping lying off Con-
stantinople. The porte also has ordered
the extinction Of the lighthouses in the
Mediterranean littoral.
Commanders of Turks.
The Berlin F'rankfurter Zeitung pub
fishes a dispatch from Vienna saying
that Torgut Pasha has been appointed
oommander-in-chief of the Dardanelles
and the Bosporus, and that Izzet Pasha
and Shukri Pasha have taken command
of Turkish armies.
A large number of Turkish vessels and
recently purchased merchantmen have
been changed into auxiliary cruisers, the
Vienna dispatch says
IZZet Pasha in the last four years has
filled the posts of m.nister of war, COM
mander-in-chief of the Turkish forces
and chief of the general staff Of the war
Office. Dispatches from Turkey the Early
part of this year spoke Of Il pot lu pace
him on the throne of Albania. Shukri
Pasha was at one time military COM
mandant of Adrianople and later min
lister of public instruction. He took a
prominent part in the last war against
Bulgaria.
Several hundred more German officers
have just arrived in Constantinople, and
a majority of them, says a dispatch
from the Ottoman capital, are familiar
with the Turkish organization, having
been employed at Constantinople before
Opens Way for Russia.
Emperor Nicholas of Russia has left
for the front, after issuing mani
festo. in which he says that turkeys
action opens the way for Russia to &C
complish her historic mission on the
Black sea.
The Petrograd authorities, acting on
instructions already received, have be-
gun the registration and arrest of all
Turkish subjects. This measure is
taken previous to their expulsion,
which will occur in a week.
kilograms received in Petrograd from
Tifiis. the capital and administrative
seat of the Caucasus. report great dem
onstrations of all ranks and national
tiles before the palace of the governor
general, all the manifestants shouting
their allegiance to Russia.
Force Is Augmented.
A regiment of 5000 Armenian cavalry.
formed on the first evidence Of Tur-
keys hostility toward Russia, Is being
CONTINUED on Second PaRel