Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-12-02
GERMANS v|CTORS
IN FLANK ATTACK
kAISER'S SOLDIERS DRIVE BACK
RUSSIANS AND OPEN UP
ROAD TO WARSAW.
BRITISH WARSHIP BLOWN UP
Only Fourteen of 700 Men on Board
BulWark Are Saved--Navai Men
Believe Internal Explosion
Responsible.

Berlin, Nov. 27-German progress
is reported on both the east and west
battle fronts in the semi-official state
ment given to the press Thursday.
Official reports from Constantinople
confirm the reports that there were
1000 Russians killed in the fighting at
Cabriz.
In the eastern theater of war the
weather is clear, but frosty, the tenn
perature averaging 10 degrees cent?
grade below zero. At Cracow for al
ternates with snow.
The Morgenpost thinks the check
administered to the Russian reinforce
ments near Lowicze is proof there are
no Russian troops north of the Vistula
river This would mean that the Rus
slams previously in that territory have
been driven back This again would
mean the German army is now fairly
on the flank of the Russians with the
road to Warsaw open to it. 1t is re-
ported that Austrians have taken
$4,000 prisoners and forty-nine ma
chine guns in the last few days in the
vicinity of Peleca and Waldrom.
A special dispatch received here
says the Russian harbor of Archangel
is completely frozen up and the move
ment of ammunition, merchandise and
foodstuffs from England to Russia
now is impossible.
Rain In Flanders.
In Flanders the rain continues and
the temperature is near the freezing
point. A low temperature prevails in
the Lorraine plateau. In the 'Vosges
the crests of the mountains are cover
ed with about six inches of snow
A dispatch from Berne says reliable
reports put the French losses up to
Nov. 1, at 100000 men killed, 10000
wounded and $4,000 missing.
Subscribe Big Loans.
The commander of the German
army in Belgium spared King Alberts
castle because of it's historical asso-
citation, though it was known Field
Marshal French and his staff were
staying there. After their retreat the
English forces bombarded the castle
and destroyed it when the staff of the
German division settled down there.
1t is officially reported from Vienna
the amount of the war loan subscribed
up to yesterday was $375,000,00 in
Austria and over 100000 in Hun
gary.
The Turkish embassy at Rome says
the Egyptian advance guards on the
Suez canal deserted to the Turks.
Duke Gets Iron Cross.
The porte states that all Arabs who
are fit for military service have de-
clared their readiness for holy war
The kaiser has bestowed upon Arch
duke Leopold Salvador the Iron Cross
of the first and second classes in re-
cognition of his services as general
artillery inspector in charge of the
Austro-Hungarian mortar battery.
British BattIeship Blown Up.
Sheerness, England, Nov. 27.-The
British battleship Bulwark was de-
stroyed by a terrific explosion as it
lay off here Thursday morning. There
are only fourteen survivors of the
crew of 700 or 500 men who were
aboard. The explosion is believed to
have occurred in it's forward maya
zine. Whether it was caused by acct
dent or design is question to be de-
termined by the commission which has
been appointed to investigate.
In the opinion of naval men it was
an internal explosion that put an end
to the battleship. There was no great
upheavel of water, such as would have
occurred if it had been torpedoed or
struck by mine. Instead the ship
was enveloped in smoke and flame
and when this had cleared nothing
could be seen but wreckage floating
on the water
If the report that two submarines
have been found near the wreck
proves true, the Germans will have
surpassed all of their previous feats
on the sea. The nearest submarine
has ever been to London heretofore
was off Dover, between fifty and sixty
miles If the two submarines have
succeeded in reaching Sheerness they
have not only penetrated the mine
fields planted for the protection of
the British coast and London, but
reached the very gateway to London
itself.