Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-12-23
Berlin's Estimate of Losses.

Sem1-oiliCial dispatch from BreSlau
to-day. 1t states that in the Poland
battles alone the Russians have lost
$4,000 in killed and wounded. be-
.des enormous numbers Of prisoners.
Bocr Uprising Over, Says Botha.
Capt Town, via London, Dec. 19.--
Gen. Louis Botha, premier Of the I'm
ion OF South Africa, considers the
rebellion, apart from the rounding up
of few stray bands, at an end. He
has gone for a short vacation before
undertaking a campaign against Ger
man Southwest Africa.
With the capture of Gen. DeWet
and the death of Gen. Beyers in an
engagement, the South African gov
ernment recently announced the re
bel1ion, started by those leaders,
practically at an end. Most of the
followers Of DeWet and Beyers. it
was said, either had been captured or
dispersed.
Norway, Denmark, Sweden Combine.
Malmoe, Sweden, Dec. 1S.-King
Gustave Of Sweden, King Haakon of
Norway, and King Christian Of Dem
mark, arrived here to-day to confer
on proposal to combine their inter-
ests during the period Of the war.
The meeting of King Haakon and
King Gustave was Of unusual inter
est, since 1T was the first time rulers
of these countries had met since Nor
way severed her connection with Swe-
den in 1905. The conference is ex-
pected to establish permanent rela-
ton between these countries. The
royal conference is being held in an
ancient dwelling in the market place
of Malmoe, headquarters of the
present Lord Lieutenant. King Gus
tave was the first to arrive, and he
welcomed King Christian when he
reached port on the cruiser Heimdal.
Later the two met King Haakon, who
came by special train.
The greetings Of the monarchs was
Of most cordial nature The town
is profusely decorated and crowds
lining the streets cheered the sover-
eigns.
Murder" Says COroner's Jury.
Scarborough, England, Dec. 18-A
verdict OF murder was returned to-
day at the inquest into the death Of
those killed by the German lombard
ment Of this city on Wednesday. The
coroner in announcing the verdict,
said:
Never before in this country has
there been such a tragedy enacted as
that on Wednesday, when the Ger
mans thought proper, contrary to the
rules Of civilized nations, to make an
attack on unfOrtified and defenseless
cities. Troops were here, but the
city was not fortified.
"Such an attack would never be
made by the British and other ma
tions would not approve of this kind
of German culture. The verdict is
that those killed met death in a mur-
derous attack"
Germans Advance OH Warsaw.
London, Dec. 18.-The Germans,
advancing on Warsaw over a wide
front between the Vistula and the
Pilicia rivers, have reached the new
Russian positions along the Bzura
river and southwark to Rawa, with
the result that another big battle is
in progress.
The Russians retired across the
Bzura, destroying the bridges behind
them. Two German detachments
who followed over a partly burned
bridge are said to have been practi-
cally annihilated, fifty survivors be-
ing taken prisoners.
This Is only the beginning Of the
great battle for Warsaw, from which
the Germans now are not more than
30 miles distant Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg expects stern resistance,
which the strongly reinforced Rus
sian army is certain to offer They
are protected by the Vistula river,
which the Germans have been unable
to cross.
The Russians are continuing ope-
rations against East Prussia as
though the capital Of Poland were
not threatened by any counter at
tacks, and are attempting to throw
off the Austro- German attacks in
Galicia. An Austrian sortie in force
from Przmysl, according to the Rus
sian official etatamant