Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-20
THE WAR IN EUROPE
News Paragraphs Telling Of Happen.
inas at the Front.

Both German and English warships
are stopping and searching neutral
ships. Scandinavian countries and
Holland are the chief sufferers.
German soldiers are rebuilding the
forts around Antwerp.
Dispatches state that Turkey Is
keeping her army mobilized at a great
cost and to the detriment Of trade and
commerce. which are practically at a
standstill. Although the crops are
good, famine Is feared in the Armenian
provinces. Germany continues to
send money to Constantinople.
German troops have reached point
on the Belgian coast not more than
seventy miles from Dover, England.
Reports Of fighting in east Prussia,
Poland, Galacia and Hungary are so
varied that 1t Is difficult to judge Of
| the progress Of the battles. Austria
claims to be driving the Russians out
| Of Hungary while the Russian gener-
ais say they are leaving the country to
escape danger Of infection from
| cholera.
Paul Leroy -Beaulou, the French
economist, estimates that each Of the
greater belligerents is spending an av-
erage equivalent to 100000, 600 month
| ly. In presenting these figures to the
academy Of Moral and Political Sci
ence, Saturday, he considered 1t prob
able the war would continue for seven
months from August l. Accordingly,
the five great powers engaged were
committed to an expenditure Of 81
O00, 100000. Each Of the smaller
states, including Japan, will have ex-
| 900 to meet.
Another British cruiser, the Hawk,
| was sunk by German submarine in
the North sea, last Thursday. This
cruiser was $50 feet long, and Of T.
O35 ton displacement. This Is the
fourth British cruiser that German
submarines have sunk within a month
and the sixth since the beginning of
the war.
A Berlin dispatch of Friday says:
The Prussian government will ask
the diet for a war credit Of more
than $4,000, 900, 900. Government
work on the railways and highways
will be proposed to cope with the
unemployment station, and to give
relief to small communities. At
joint sitting Of the party leaders, 1t
was decided unanimously to support
the governments programme. The
sitting of the diet will partake of the
character of war session and will
laSl only d lew udyS
A dispatch to the London Daily
Chronicle from a correspondent In
Holland who has lately been in Ber-
lin. says: The authorities in Berlin
estimate that the total losses in
France and Belgium up to date have
been more than 100000 men. This
does not include their losses on the
eastern frontier, which they estimate
at more than 100000. They, also
acknowledge that the Austrian losses
exceed 100000. The official reports
which have been published relate
only to a portion Of Prussian losses
in France. No official lists have been
published regarding the losses OF
troops from Bavaria, Wurtemburg,
SaXony or Hanover. From this evil
dence. the Austro- German losses
should approximate 1,350,00O. This
figure covers killed, missing and OF
course, includes all prisoners"
The London police on Friday, raid
ed a building at Willesden a London
suburb, occupied by a German music
publishing concern, and found the
building to be especially constructed
for the mounting of heavy guns. The
walls and roof were of concrete and
four feet thick. Twenty-Five Ger
mans were arrested on the premises.
According to a Flusburg, Holland:
newspaper, the Germans have levied
a fine of s1,0000O0 on Ostend, Bel
gium.