Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-06

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inquiry is believed to be from Ger
many.
A st. Louis, Mo-, milling concern
last week received a rush order for
10000 barrels of flour for one Of the
warning nations of Europe. The or
der will require $4,000 bushels of
wheat.
During the six months ending
September 80, Great Britain's revenue
amounted approximately to $3.50, ,000,-
! 900, a decrease of $13,500,000 COM
pared with the previous year Ex-
penditures were s67O,OO,OOO. showing
an increase OF nearly $23O,00O,OOO, due
to the war.
A squad of five German Uhlans,
captured in France, Friday, were
riding bicycles. They declared that
scarcity of horses had forced them to
the wheels as cavalry mounts.
The Holland-American line steam
ship Potsdan, which left New York,
Sept. %, for Rotterdam, has been
seized by a British warship and taken
to Falmouth.
The German cruiser Dresden is re-
ported to have been sunk off the coast
of Panama on September II, by two
British cruisers.
The French government has given
the Pierce-Arrow company an order
for 800 motor trucks. Orders to
other builders are to aggregate
total of 1000 cars
An official statement from Russian
headquarters issued Sunday after
noon, says: "The battle of Augusta
wo ended yesterday in a victory for
the Russian arms. The German de-
feat is complete.
A Paris dispatch Of Sunday, says:
Duke Ernest Gunther of Schles-
wig Holstein, brother-in-law of the
German emperor, with other Ger
mans recently visited Pierrefonds,
French town eight miles southeast OF
Compiegne, where Clement Bayard,
Paris manufacturer, has home. En-
tering NJ. Bayard's house the duke
left for the manufactures an auto
graph note reading: Il restore your
home with it's beautiful objects Of art
in the same state as 1 found them,
without breaking or damaging. as the
servants can testify. You see the Ger
mans are not barbarians as has been
charged"
The Belgian war office has issued a
statement denying that any of the
forts defending Antwerp have fallen.
The German commander at koen-
igsberg, east Prussia, has announced
officially that the Russian armies in
the battles of Oct l, and 2, lost 5000
prisoners, eighteen guns, many ma
chine guns and other materials OF
war.
The battle which promises to be
the greatest and most important or
the eastern campaign, says a London
dispatch, has commenced near Cra-
crow, Galacia, where an Austro-Ger-
man army, estimated to number
500, 900 men, is endeavoring to check
the fSuSSldH duNdilSS VI lDOoN t,NNN'
600 men. This combined Austro-
German army has occupied line
Just inside the Russian-Poland from
tier from Cracrow through Czen-
stochowa to Kalisz and has had plenty
of time to prepare strong defensive
positions. Both sides are bringing
up reinforcements. The Germans are
hurrying theirs from Breslau and
Bavia. Bohemian and Moravarian
railways are congested with German
troops and war material. The Ger
man plan of invasion of Russia from
east Prussia has failed according to
Russian official reports, which de-
clare the Germans got as far as the
western bank of the Niemen river, but
found strong Russian forces in the
hills on the eastern bank. Being in
low and marshy ground the Germans,
according to the Russian viewpoint,
were at a disadvantage and could not
advance. A fight is in progress at
MirampOl near the northeastern
Prussian frontier, while further south
in the Suwalki district, the Russians
claim to have turned the German re-
treat into disorderly flight. More