Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-11-14
SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED DOWN
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Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate interest to
All the People.

All the People.
European War News
Advices from German sources by
wireless to London say that the Sheik-
ulIslam, ecclesiastical head of the 220.-
OOO,OOO Mohammedans in the world.
has proclaimed a holy war of Islam
against the enemies of Turkey.
The bloody battle between the Ger
mans and the allies in the region be-
tween Dixmude and the River Lys is
still undecided, according to an off,
cial announcement issued at Paris.
Neither of the contestants have been
able to break the mighty deadlock.
The greatest success gained on the
side of the allies since the beginning
of the war has been the complete vic
tory OF the Russian army against the
Germans in Poland, East Prussia and
Galicia. This was the word conveyed
to General Joffre and Lord Kitchener
IN kilograms by Grand Duke Nicholas
of Russia, commander of the cars
army.
1t is officially announced at Tokyo
that Using Tao has fallen. The Ger
man fortress surrendered to the An
glo-Japanese forces after the besieg-
ers, in a desperate infantry charge,
had captured the middle fort of the
first line of defense while the Teutons'
eyes We're blinded by powerful search
lights.
The correspondent of the Milan Cor.
riere Della Sera, who visited Baden.
denies that the crown prince of Ger
many was at the royal palace at
Strassburg wounded Duke Ernst Au-
gust of Brunswick Lunebourg, the
kaiser's son-in-law. is at the palace
being treated for a wound.
A private telegram received at Ge-
neva from a wealthy American states
that Americans In Constantinople are
in great danger Chaos reigns, he
says. Americans are considered Eng
lish by the populace, and he expresses
the hope that American warships will
arrive in time to rescue the refugees
1t is reported that a great battle
has been fought in the North sea be-
tween the British and German heeta,
and that II ships have sunk No con-
t1rmation can be obtained.
The Germans are in full retreat
along the entire Belgian front, extend
ing from Thielt to Bruges, according
to a dispatch to London from Amster
dam. An almost unbroken line of the
Germans. however. was seen going
eastward, extending from Leke to
Thourout
Two British ships were sunk in ad-
dition to the submarine DIS when the
German squadron OF eight ships came
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tention of bombarding the English
coast, and engaged British ships off
Yarmouth. The sunken ships were
mine drifters
The Berlin press says that eight
German princes have been killed in
the war, six of them aged between
eighteen and twenty.
Thousands of the kaiser's soldiers
have been drowned in the flooded
trenches at Ypres. for the sea has
been let in by the Belgians upon miles
of beet land. reclaimed and below
high tide.
The German cruiser York is report
ed to have struck a mine and was
sunk in Jahde bay. near the mouth
of the Weser, and her crew of 500
officers and men are lost The scene
OF the disaster is near Wilhelms-
haven, German naval base of i'm
portance.
Moscow newspapers report that the
new king of Roumania has decided to
his encourage: I'VE shall certainly
have to go to war
Taking the offensive against the
Germans. the allies have crossed the
User river, according to official state
ment issued at Paris. II states that
they have advanced slightly to the
east of Newport on the right bank of
the User
The Russian admiralty announced
officially at Petrograd that the Turk
ish feet has been driven from the
! Black sea and is now effectively bot
tied up in the Bosporus. with the Rus
stan Black sea 1eet standing guard II
I the entrance.