Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-16
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1914.
THE WAR IN EUROPE
News Paragraphs Telling of Happen
inas at the Front.

The Belgian government has been
moved 20 Havre, France, and II Is eX-
pected the Germans will invest Ostend,
the present seat OF the Belgians, with
in few days.
Prince Oleg, son of Grand Duke Con-
stanIine or Russia, is dead from
wounds received in a cavalry engage
ment. The prince is said to nave been
carrying a RUSSIAN standard when he
was fatally shot.
An Amersterdam dispatch says the
Kaiser Wilhelm canal, between the
Baltic and North seas, has been closed
to ordinary traffic for the duration OF
the war
British interests in Ostend, Belgium,
have been turned over TO the American
consul of that city.
french aYiators are keeping sharp
lookout for German birdmen who
would drop bombs on Paris. Great
crowds gather in Paris each day TO
watch the manoeuvering of the French
aeroplanes.
The commander of the Russian ma
val forces in the Baltic sea, says TWO
German submarines were sunk during
the attack on the Russian cruiser Pal
lada, Monday.
Warsaw, capital of Russian Poland
may fall into the hands OF the Ger
mans at any moment, according 10 an
official dispatch to the American gov
ernment, from its consuls, VINO are
asking for instructions as to the care
Of foreign interests during the expect
ed period Of occupancy.
AS a result of the Japanese empe-
ror's desire that lives Of non-combat-
ants and neutrals in Tsing-Tau, Ger
man China, be spared, Mayor wal
dock, governor Of the German province
of Kiao- Chow, has sent German ofn-
GERS to arrange with the japanese, de-
tails for the departure Of such persons
before the final attack upon the Ger
man fortress is made by the combined
British and Japanese forces.
Adolph +. Gall, an engineer In the
Edison laboratories in New York, VINO
arrived in New York from Germany: on
Tuesday, says that Germany is build
ing a number of guns which will make
the l6-inch siege guns used against
I.iege, Namur and Antwerp, look ike
bean blowers" The guns are to nave
a calibre of 1880 and 2l.45 inches ana
are being rushed to completion in the
Krupp plant in Essen, Germany.
German statements coming through
Rome, say that the real struggle is Just
beginning and that If necessary o'oOO'-
600 men can be called upon for COM
pulsory service, while many volunteers
also are available.
For the first time the French general
staff takes notice Of and denies some
claims put forth by the Germans. IL
is denied that two French cavalry dl-
visions have been destroyed and 1t Is
asserted, on the other hand, that aVia-
tors. with French cavalry, lnfncteu
heavy losses on the German cavalry.
Ii is declared also, that the Germans
have not come into touch with the
fortress of Verdun and that attempts
to do so have failed, while in their Ell
fort to cross the Meuse at st. Mlhhlel'
they were outflanked.
Hostile aeroplanes, supposedly or the
French army, appeared over the Ger
man city of Karlsruhe, Tuesday. They
were fired upon, but escaped without
injury Karlsruhe is $50 miles from
the French border.
According to the Frankfuter Zeltuils,
inoculation against cholera is pelng
used in the Austrian army. over lzO'-
600 packages of cholera serum nave
been distributed and inoculatlon Is
proceeding rapidly.
A report from Berlin says the Ger
man aeroplane factories are working
night and day, turning out flying ma
chimes, and operators are quahlylhs
at the rate of 200 per day.
The Germans are said to be rush-
ing to completion some twenty-inch
guns that are expected to throw d
shell twenty-five miles.