Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-11-04
TURKS WAGE WAR
AGAINST RUSSIA
SULTAN OPENS POSSIBILITIES 5N
SMELLING TWO OF CARS
PORTS.
TENTH NATION IN CONFLICT
Berlin Claims Capture of Sixteen 6rit4
ish Officers and Three Hundred
Men-Report All French At
tacks Are Repulsed.


Petrograd, Oct 3O.-Two Russian
cities were bombarded today by ships
under the Turkish flag.
The Breslau, late of the German
navy, shelled Theodosia in the
Crimea, an unfortified port.
The Hamidah, of the Turkish navy.
bombarded Novotossysk, further east
than Theodosia, east of the entrance
to the sea of Azoy.
This makes the tenth nation in the
war.
One Port Surrenders.
London, Oct. 3O.-Dispatches re-
ceived here yesterday convey further
details of the attack by Turkish cruis-
ers on the Russian seaports of Theo-
dosia and Novorossysk. which marks
the sultan's entry into the war against
the car
The dispatch from Theodosia does
not identify the attacking cruiser by
name. 1t states that the cruiser ap-
peared off the city at $50 a. m. Thurs
day and Immediately began lombard
ment. One shell struck branch OF
the Russian bank of foreign COM
merce.
From NovOrossysk it is reported that
the Turkish cruiser Hamidieh ap-
peared in the harbor and demanded
the surrender of the town AS the
town is unfortifed the demand was
granted. The officials of the town
were arrested.
Report Germans Sent Arms.
Six hundred German officers have
arrived in Turkey since the war be-
gan. They brought siege guns, field
guns and ammunition with them.
A German colonel, Weber Pasha,
took command of the Dardanelles forts
and big German guns were mounted
in them. Ali the Notifications on the
iBosphorus have been overhauled, a.
large number of mines laid down along
the coasts of Asia Minor, especially
in and around Smyrna, which is forth
fed, and to the north of Smyrna en-
trenchments have been dug to repel
any possible attack by land.
1t is computed that Turkey has from
100000 to 100000 men ready to take
the field. The German officers put the
number at 100000.
Kaiser Gains at Nieuport.
Berlin, Oct. 30.-Via Amsterdam and
London.-The German general head
u1QrforS Thurcdov poorn;Do ooro s.,%
the following report with regard to-
the situation in France and Belgium:
Our attacks to the south of Nieu-
port are slowly gaining ground. At
Ypres the battle is unchanged.
ITO the west of Lille our troops are
making good progress. Several forth
fed positions of the enemy have been
taken. Sixteen British officers and 300
men, as well as four cannon, have
been captured.
French counter attacks everywhere
have been repulsed. A French battery
stationed before the cathedral at
Rheims and artillery observers posted
on the steeple of the cathedral have
been bombarded.
In the Argonne region the enemy
was chased from several trenches and
some machine guns were captured.
ITO the southwest of Verdun severe
French attacks have been repuIsed In
counter attacks our troops succeeded
in breaking through the French lines,
to the main position of the enemy.
which was occupied The French suf-
fered terrible losses.
To the east of the Moselle all the
attempts of the enemy have been re-
pulsed.
1900 Russians Taken.
In the northeastern theater Of the
war our attacks are progressing. Dur
Ing the last three weeks 13,50Os Rus
slams, thirty cannon and thirtb-nine
machine guns have been taken.
In the southeastern war arena the
situation is unchanged
Deny knowledge of Attack.
Berlin, Oct. 90.-It was announced
officially il Berlin yesterday that
nothing was known concerning the re-
port that German troops had entered
Angola, the Portuguese colony in West
Africa.
Build Airship Sheds.
London, Oct. 30.-A dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Amsterdam says the
Germans have Communicated a large
quantity of lumber at Bruges for use
in building a giant airship shed at Gel-
donck, Belgium.