The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-10
latest WARnEWSSUNMARY

Great Britain has had her innings on
the sea. The famous German cruiser
Emden has met her fate. The Koenigs-
berg. another German scourge of the
seas, has been bottled up. Thus Eng
land obtains partial revenge for the
havoc wrought ON her sea commerce by
Germans s elusive marine raiders.
Fighting ON land proceeds with saw
age intensity, but without definite issue
on any of the fields of battle. In Bel
gium Germany's renewed attempt to
break through to the English channel
has brought on fearful struggle still
to be decided. Along the eastern front
ier of Prussia both Germany and Rus
sia lay claim to successes. In the near
east the Russians are meeting unex-
pectedly stiff resistance from the Turks.
The Emden was active to the last
and closed her career in action, as the
bold captain who commanded her must
have wished. From Penang, where she
sank a French and Russian warship
after Disgusting herself with a false
smokestack and a Japanese flag she
ventured back into the Indian Ocean
where she had previously met with a
majority of the ID ships she sent TO
the bottom Her last feat was to cut the
cable leading to the Cocos Islands, Brit
ish possessions in the Indian ocean. 1t
fell 20 the lot of the Australian cruiser
Sydney to accomplish what the British.
French, Russian and japanese warships
that have long pursued the Emden were
unable to do. The Sydney overlook the
Emden near Cocos Island. set her afire
with shells from her heavier guns and
drove her on the shore. London reports
that the losses of officers and crew
were heavy, but Toxic says most of
the men probably were rescued.
The Koenigsberg, which disabled the
British cruiser Pegasus in Zanzibar har-
Dor several weeks ago, is bottled up at
Mafia Island on the coast of German
East Africa, the channel to the harbor
having been blocked.
On the European battlefelds the
fighting is fiercest along the small strip
of Belgian territory in possession of
the allies, from the sea to Armen-
there's, near the French border. OF the
series of desperate assaults made BY
the Germans the present is probably
the most severe since the allies have
declined TO cede the offensive entirely
to the enemy and are meeting attack
with attack.
To-day's French official statement re-
ports that the fighting is especially vio-
lent, that the German advance south of
Ypres, few miles north of the French
border, has been checked and that fur
ther to the south the French have made
some progress. All account agree, how
ever, that it is slow work. The troops
are fighting in dense fog, from one
sand dune to another, some times creep
ing slowly through the thick grass to
win few additional yards.
Paris advices indicate that elsewhere
along the main battle line the situation
is much the same as it has been for
several weeks. Here and there advances
by the allies are reported, and the Off
cial statement announces that the new
German attacks at various points have
been checked.
The importance attached to the great
battle along the eastern frontier of Ger
many is shown in dispatches from Ber-
lin, which say that attention there has
been turned from the western scene of
action, desperate and momentous as it
it. to the east. Germany repeated to-
day its claim to an important victory
over the Russians in the north near the
scene of the disastrous Russian defeat
early in the war. The Russians appar-
entity attempted to break over the east
Prussian border at the same time they
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