The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-11-28
PROGRESS OF THE WAR
Cold and Stormy Weather in
Flanders and France Seriously
Interfering With Operations
From Sundays Salt Lake Tribune

From the American point of view
the most interesting event of last
week in the theater of war was the
firing of shots from the Turkish Fort
of Vurla on the u. S. cruiser Tennes-
see. The incident created CONSIDER
able excitement because it was gen.
orally believed to be a hostile act and
without excuse. The State and Navy
Department officials at Washington,
however, expressed the opinion that
the Turks were merely trying in the
usual fashion to warn an incoming
boat that the harbor was mined and
therefore perilous. After four days
of silence Captain Decker of the Ten
nessee confirmed the views of the
officials at Washington.
The most notable military opera
ton was the German offensive move
ment against the Russian right EN-
ter in Poland. 1t probably began
late week before last. The cavalry
and advance guards of the Russian
forces, which had been sweeping sue
cessfully toward the German border,
were checked and driven back with
heavy losses in a southeasterly d.
rection toward Warsaw. Rallying
about so miles from the German bor-
der they again gave battle, but the
Germans continued to press them
back all last week. Friday night I'M
official dispatches from Petrograd
said that the movement had been
checked by a f1anking operation, but
the situation is by no e clear.
Meantime, the Russians have moved
to within a few miles of Cracow after
driving the Austrians from many
lines of intrenchments. In Galicia
the Russians have swept forward
from Przemysl and occupied towns
many miles to the west of that fort
ress. Przemysl itself is entirely in
vested by the Russians and is once
more enduring a siege.
In spite of the many handicaps un-
der which they labor, the Turks have
displayed considerable activity on
land and sea. The most spectacular
affair on the sea was the fight be-
tween the Russian squadron near
Sebastopol and the German dread
nought Goeben. which, evidently,
was takan by surprise. Berlin and
Petrograd accounts of the fight diff
fer greatly. both sides claiming a
victory, but the detailed account
comes from the Russians who de-
scribe the Goeben as badly damaged.
The Russians declare that after re-
ceiving several shells in the hull and
on the decks, the Goeben was set
afire and fled.
The Turks and their allies in Asia
Minor and Persia have beer giving
both the Russians and the English
armies much work to do, but no de-
cisive battles have yet taken place.
While the Russians shelled certain
Turkish positions on the Black Sea,
the English captured a Turkish for
tress on the Gulf of Alden. destroyed
q German liner in the Persian gulf
and engaged in battle with Turkish
troops at the north end of this gulf.
In Persia sporadic attempts have been
made by the Persians to drive back
the Russian troops, but no conclus-
i've results are recorded.
In Flanders and France the cold
weather and snow seem to have al
most entirely stopped operations.
Prior to the blizzard there was some
lively fighting at Ypres and Dixmude,
neither side gaining much ground.
The Germans still hold Dixmude.
In the direction of ST. Mihiel the
Germans. who had crossed the river
to the west side and occupied the
town of Chanvoncourt, succeeded in
blowing up the French garrison and
in occupying the positions which the
French had held. This movement is
much more important than the Off
cial dispatches from Paris indicate,
because it drives the German wedge
further into the French right flank
through the line of barrier forts be-
tween Verdun and Toul. Should
the Germans be able to press forward
from this point they would make ii