Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-10-22
ENGLISH WARSHIf5
SUNK BY GERMANS
CRUISER HAWKE ATTACKED BY
SUBMARINE IN NORTH SEA
AND DESTROYED.
0STEND FALLS TO KAISER
Cruiser Geyer in Honolulu Har-
bor-BattIe on Within Eight
Miles of Warsaw.

London, Oct 17.-England has lost
another cruiser through the activity Of
the German submarine feet. The
cruiser Hawke, utilized for scouting
purposes off the German naval base
in the North sea, and carrying 514
men was torpedoed and sunk with a
loss of about 500 officers and men.
The disaster took place Thursday
afternoon at a point in the North sea
whose location is withheld by the ad-
miralty. According to an official an
nouncement issued by the admiralty
Friday afternoon, three of the Hawkes.
officers and forty-nine men have been
saved.
The Hawke, Thesus and Gibraltar,
sister cruisers, were engaged on the
patrol when the attack was made. The
first torpedo was launched against the
ThesUs, but it is reported that it miss
ed its mark The submarine immedi-
ately dived and the cruisers with their
guns manned stood by watching for it
TO rise
Because Of the admiralty orders that
commanders of warships in cases of
submarine attacks must consider their
first duty to be the safety of their own
ship, no attempt was made by the
other cruisers to go to the rescue of
the crew of the Hawke, and to this is
attributed the great loss of life among
the complement of the sunken vessel.
Germans Take Ostend.
Ostend, Oct. 1.-THE Germans en-
tered Ostend Thursday morning. AS
soon as the advance guard appeared,
the civil guard, the only armed force
remaining in the town, threw their
rifles into the sea.
Hundreds of refugees who we're left
on the quays when the last steamer
departed for England, were panic
stricken.
Lines Reach Sea.
London, Oct. 1.-THE official COM
munication issued by the French war
office on Friday afternoon confirms the
progress of the allies reported on
Thursday.
II is not indicated in the communica-
ton at what part of the coast the
allies fighting line reaches the sea.
but the nearest point is twenty-five
miles from YpTes and is close to the
FrancO-Belgian frontier. This, how
ever, is much nearer Dunkirk than Os-
tend, which the Germans are reported
to have occupied on Friday, and the
presumption, based on knowledge OF
the German movements, is that the
line of the allies is in a more norther-
ly direction and consequently is near
eF thirty than twenty miles in length.
The line would seem to be a bar to
an advance by the Germans along the
coast, which doubtless was their plan
when their cavalry made a dash to
ward Calais.
Boer Rebels Defeated.
Cape Town, Oct 1.-THE first en-
counter between the rebenious Beers
and the loyalists has resulted in a vic
tory for the latter A force of South
African native troops, under command
of Col Britse, sent against the rebels
defeated a band of them and took
seventy prisoners.
Battle Near Warsaw
London, Oct. 17-Fulfllment of the
promise that pressure would be taken
off France and Belgium when the big
battle commenced in the east again
has been delayed. The Germans are
before Warsaw-in facr, fighting has
taken place only eight miles from that
city. While their advance to the Me
men was a failure, the forces of En-
perOr William apparently have re
trieved some defeats of the Austrians
in Galicia and advanced as far as Jaro
zlau, seventeen miles northwest Of
Przemysl.
The German plan seems to be t.
have two armies advance along the
left bank of the Vistula river while
two other armies swing around on the
right bank to take the defenders O.
Warsaw on their flank.
Trap German Cruiser.
Honolulu, Oct 1.-THE German
cruiser Geyer, which entered this por
yesterday to take on supplies of coal
will probably dismantle and remain
here until after the war is over. Out
side the harbor waiting for her ar,
two Japanese cruisers, the Kongo ant
Tsukuba, the former practically in thu
dreadnaught class and the latter
powerful war craft