Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-10-24
SHELLS FROM BATTLESHIPS
DROPPED into GERMAN RANKS
Battle RACES In Belgium Where the
Germans Are EndeavOring to
Work Way Down Coast

The progress OF the allies in North
ern France and Belgium is indicated
by the statement issued by the Brit
ish official press bureau that in the
northern area the Germans have been
driven back more than thirty miles.
This is in part confirmed by an Am
sterdam dispatch, which says that the
Germans have evacuated Courtrai,
which is a very considerable distance
to the northeast of Lille.
On this important phase of the
great battle the latest official state
ments issued by the French war Of
flee give little information, except for
the recording of the recapture of Ar
mentieres by the allies and the re-
pulse Of several attacks by Germans
in Belgium, with a notable advance
north OF Arras. There has been fight
ing also in the neighborhood of Saint
Die, where the Germans have been en-
deavoring to force their way through
the French lines.
The Austro-German and Russian re
ports of the fighting in the east con
tinue contradictory of each other. In
the south the Servians again an
nOunce successes to their arms
against the Austrians.
An Amsterdam newspaper learns
that the Germans from Zeebruegge
have shelled the Belgian lightship off
that port, forcing the crew to desert
their posts and leaving the lightship
dark
Disquietude prevails in Asiatic Tur-
key, according to news agency dis
patch. The governor of Alexandretta
has threatened to burn his city If
British or French warships appear
In Smyrna a similar condition of I'M
easiness prevails, and the American
ambassador to Turkey has been re-
quested not to send the American re-
lief cruiser North Carolina there in
the fear that her arrival might cause
disorder.
Anti-German mobs in London have
wrecked twenty bakeries, butcher
shops and saloons belonging to Ger
mans and looted the stores and also
the dwelling places of their owners
above them.
The steamer Brindilla, now flying
the American flag but formerly sail
ing under the German flag as the
Washington, has been taken into Hal
flax as prize of war by the British
auxiliary cruiser Caronia. She is re-
ported to have contraband of war in
her cargo.
Captain Cecil H. Fox, who was COM
mander of the Inflated cruiser Am
/ phion, destroyed by a German mine
on Aug. 6, was in command of the
| light cruiser Undaunted and the four
British torpedo boat destroyers
Lance, Lennox, Legion and Loyal,
which engaged the Germans off the
Dutch coast. The battle must have
been fast, for the British had only
one officer and four men wounded.
while the official report issued by the
admiralty says 81 survivors of the
German destroyers are prisoners of
war. This would mean that nearly
400 Germans went down with their
ships
The latest British casualty list in.
Guides among the killed Major Gen.
eral Hubert l. w. Hamilton. who was
closely associated with Field Marshal
Kitchener in South Africa and India
Winston Spencer Churchill, first
lord of the British admiralty, de
clares that the sending of British
naval brigades to Antwerp was part
of large operation for the relief OF
the city, and that their withdrawal
was not because Of any attack by
the Germans. but Gin obedience to the
general strategical situation
According to wounded German of
ficers, prisoners in an English hos
9pital, it is said General Won Arnim
has succeeded General Won Kluck in
command of the right wing of the
German army in France.
In the land fighting the British
troops have captured Fromelles, ar
important position southwest of Lille
on the French left, while the French
commander has been receiving aid
from sailors of the French fleet or
the important strategic position be
tween Ypres and the sea. The
French sailors are said to have re
pulsed German attack and captured
detachments of cavalry and infantry
Eight hundred Austrian sailors and
mechanics have arrived in Constants
nople to serve in the Turkish navy
and forts.