Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-23
Disaster to Warships in
North Sea Stirs Up
People of Empire
GERMANS SUBS ESCAPE
Admiralty Does Not Believe Any
of Attacking Craft Were
Seen by BritonS..

LONDON, SEPT. 23.-A ROME
DISPATCH SAYS THE AUSTRIAN
CRUISERS MARIA THERESA AND
ADMIRAL sTAUN PUT INTO sE5-
ENIco, DALMATiA, BADLY DAM
AGED.
A MAIL CORRESPONDENT UN.
DER DATE OF SUNDAY, FROM AN
UNNAMED PLACE, TELEGRAPH9
THE GERMAN RIGHT HAD BEEN
TURNED BETWEEN PERoNNE
AND ST. QUENTIN. HE ALSO
TELLS OF THE ARRIVAL OF
WOUNDED, WHO BRING STORIES
THAT THERE ARE NINE MILES OF
DEAD IN TRENCHES BETWEEN !
THE TWO TOWNS.
destruction of three big cruisers,
which cost s12,OOO,000, has brought
home the risks of modern naval war
fare. The unseen enemy crept upon
the Aboukir. Hogue and Cressy. one
after another. The cruisers keeled
and sunk and the whole affair was
over in 20 minutes. Survivors brought
to Dutch and English ports declarel
there were three German submarines
in the attacking force; some say five. +
and that cruiser Cressy accounted for
two of them. The admiralty however,
does not yet confirm the statement
that any German craft were destroyed,
and it is possible none was even seen.
Neither the navy nor the nation, as
A., ig IN ha
pers, is dismayed, and the call on the
admiralty is for more aggressive ac-
ton. The British public finds some
compensation for these naval losses in
the statement of the admiralty last
night that the command of the sea
had resulted in the maintenance
ocean traffic by 1000 merchantmen,
with the loss of only II by capture
since the beginning of the war.
Great Battle Progressing.
The battle of the entrenched armies
in France is progressing with great
losses and apparently without any de-
cisive stroke by either side. The
question military men here are dis
cussing Is whether the Germans have
definitely assumed the defensive on
their west, or whether the German
general staff regards the retirement
from Paris as a temporary reverse to
be followed by an attempt at retriev-
ing lost ground between Peronne and
st. Quentin. Forces under Won
KIuck, commander of the German right,
evacuated Peronne Friday, since
which time desperate fighting has TAX
en- place for possession of the town. The
British are reported repelling German
attacks with great cost to both sides.
There has been no change in the
past two or three days in the battle
lines along the main front. Latest
reports from the British army under
General French describe the general
features of the fighting up to Sept Is
without geographical details.
Estimates of casualties of the allies
during the battle of the Aisne, which
will be the historic name of the pres
ent conflict, have not been published
yet.
Only Meagre Galicia Reports.
Only meagre reports have been re-
an campaign in Galicia. Jaroslau, so
miles west Of Lemberg, has fallen into
Russian hands. according to dis
patches from Petrograd, with little
fighting, and the railroad to Przemysl
is controlled by Russians. Many
thousand Austrian wounded are being 1
brought into Vienna ,and according to I
some dispatches an epidemic of ty-i
phoid and other diseases is feared In !
Austria.
General Botha, premier of the union
OF South Africa. has settled the diff
fculty created by the resignation of
General Beyers. The Boer veteran
will drop his civilian duties and take
the field as commander in chief of the
Transvaal forces against his German
neighbors.
President Wilson has had few hard