Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-10-31
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NOW ISSUE
IN STRUGGLE
ENGAGEMENT IN BLACK SEA
PRECEDES FORMAL DE
CLARATION OF WAR.
COMPLlcAIEs SITUATION
Italy, Greece and Balkan States
May be Involved Soon.
'RoTEST is ENTERED Q

PROTEST Is ENTERED.
Washington, Oct. 30.-The state
department decided to protest to
Great Britain against the deten-
ton of the American steamer,
kroonland, held up at Gibraltar,
with 1900 passengers and cargo
of copper, bound from New York
for Calais and Greek ports.
The British authorities will be :
asked whether the vessel was
held because the nature Of her
cargo, a conditional contraband,
or because Of the Germans and
Austrans among her passengers?
The state department officials
take the position that the ship
either should be released or taxi
en- forthwith into the prize court.
London, Oct. 3O.-A Rome dispatch
says it is reported from Constanti-
nople that battle between the Turk
ish and Russian fleets Is in progress
off Odessa
The Russian gunboat, Donets, was
sunk and part of her crew drowned
and others killed and wounded by
Turkish torpedo boats, which yester-
day raided Fort Odessa, according to
Lloyds' agency. The Russian steam
ers, Lazareff, Witiaz and Whampoa,
and the French steamer, Portugal,
were damaged by shell fire and 3
number of sailors were killed and
wounded. Some civilians were killed
and injured.
CompIicates Situation.
Turkeys attack on Russia,repOrts
of which were contained in official
dispatches, are viewed by officials and
diplomats as likely to produce the
gravest complications throughout
the Balkan States and Northern AZ
RIGA and Asia Minor The announces
ment of a state of war between Rus
sia and Turkey is expected eventual
ly to bring into the list of belliger.
ents, Greece and Italy, followed by
Roumania and Bulgaria.
Ambassador [Morgenthau Constan-
tinople, in a brief cablegram, did not
mention the declaration of war by
Turkey on Russia, but said the Brit
ish ambassador informed him of the
bombardment of Odessa by three
Turkish torpedo boat destroyers and
the sinking of a Russian gunboat.
The American consul at Odessa
stated that in the bombardment some
American property was destroyed.
With these dispatches the officials
feared the long expected conflagra-
tion in Turkey is at hand. They are
prepared to use the American crlis-
er, North Carolina, to assist the Am
erican missionaries. if necessary, and
set in motion measures for the relief
of Americans similar to those begun
when the first nations Of Europe were
plunged into war.
One version of the fighting in the
Black sea between Russian torpedo
boats, which are attempting to pre-.
vent the Turkish fleet from steaming
through the Bosphorus to the Black
sea, is that four Russian gunboats
and one torpedo boat were sunk by
the Turks.
Complications of the European war
is increased by the entrance of the
Turkish empire into the conflict on
the side of Germany and Austria. No
official declaration of war has been
made, but Turkeys bombardment OF
Odessa and Theodosia, make proba-
Bile that the area of the conflict will
be widened. The Balkans present
such network of hostile interests
and Greece and other Balkan nations,
easily may be drawn into the maels.
from. Greece. believed to be first
state now neutral to throw weight
against Turkey. Bulgaria's interests
and sentiments are violently hostile to
Turkey and Greece but at the same
time she is bound racially to Russia,
and by diplomatic obligations to Great
Britain An attempt to invade the
caucauses on one side and EgyptOn
the other, is the program military
men think the Turkish army likely
to endeavor to execute.